Automated pacing of vehicle operator content interaction

US11279280B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Gregory Mason Neiswander · Sunnyvale, US
• Sabrina Silk Billinghurst · Mountain View, US
• Yuan Hang Li · Sunnyvale, US
• Daniel Holle · San Francisco, US
• Yan Yan · Shanghai, CN
• Jorge Taketoshi Furuya Mariche · Cupertino, US
• Jia Wei Tam · Seattle, US
• Stefan Day Dierauf · Kirkland, US
• Rasekh Rifaat · Brookline, US
• Ian Douglas Barlow · Mountain View, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 9, 2020
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 9, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/167
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In one example, a computing device includes one or more user input detection components, and one or more processors configured to receive an indication of a first user input detected by the one or more user input detection components, responsive to receiving the indication of the first user input, adjust a level of an attention buffer at a defined rate; responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a first threshold, prevent further interaction with a user interface of the computing device, responsive to determining that an indication of a second user input has not been received within a time period, adjust a level of the attention buffer, and responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a second threshold, allow further interaction with the user interface.