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Granted Patent B2
US 11,132,857 · App. 16/291,730 · Granted Sep 28, 2021

Internet of things smart entry

Inventors: David W. Browning (Portland, OR); Mark MacDonald (Beaverton, OR); Yoshifumi Nishi (Beaverton, OR)
Assignee: Intel Corporation
G07C9/20G07C9/00309G07C9/22H04L67/02H04L67/12H04L67/26H04L67/306G07C9/257G07C2009/00769H04W4/70H04W4/80H04W76/10H04W88/02H04W88/08
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Patent No.
US 11,132,857
App. No.
16/291,730
Granted
Sep 28, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Various systems and methods for providing a smart entry system are described herein. A smart entry system includes a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room; a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person; and a user interface to present a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection.

Claims (53)

1. A smart entry system, the system comprising:

a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room;

a door sensor that activates in response to a door to the portal being opened; and

a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person, in response to detecting that the door to the portal is opened,

wherein, the smart entry system is to initiate a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein to detect the person near the portal, the detector is to:

receive sensor data from a sensor coupled to the smart entry system; and

detect the person with the sensor data.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the sensor comprises a vibration sensor.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein to detect the person, the detector is to detect a pattern of footsteps with the vibration sensor indicating human gait.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the sensor comprises a wireless beacon, the wireless beacon configured to sense the user device in proximity to the portal.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the state of the wireless connection is unconnected and wherein to present the notification, the smart entry system is to initiate a visual alert to the person that the smart entry system was unable to connect to the user device.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein when attempting to establish the wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person is successful, the user device is to perform an additional operation as a result of the wireless connection.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the additional operation comprises:

checking a battery level; and

presenting an alert when the battery level is below a threshold.

9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a user identifier to:

attempt to identify the person; and

access a profile database to obtain a set of devices associated with the person when the person is identified,

wherein the user device is a device of the set of devices.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein to attempt to identify the person, the user identifier is to:

access a pattern of vibrations; and

identify the person based on the pattern of vibrations.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the profile database includes a plurality of profiles.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the room is a room in a residence, and wherein the profile database includes a plurality of profiles for a subset of people who reside in the residence.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein when attempting to identify the person fails, the smart entry system is to initiate a prompt to the person to perform an initialization process to train the smart entry system on the person.

14. A smart entry system, the system comprising:

a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room based on infrared sensor data;

a door sensor that activates in response to a door to the portal being opened; and

a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person, in response to detecting that the door to the portal is opened,

wherein, the smart entry system is to initiate a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the state of the wireless connection is unconnected and wherein to present the notification, the smart entry system is to initiate a visual alert to the person that the smart entry system was unable to connect to the user device.

16. The system of claim 14 , wherein when attempting to establish the wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person is successful, the user device is to perform an additional operation as a result of the wireless connection.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the additional operation comprises:

checking a battery level; and

presenting an alert when the battery level is below a threshold.

18. A smart entry system, the system comprising:

a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room based on image data from a camera;

a door sensor that activates in response to a door to the portal being opened; and

a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person, in response to detecting that the door to the portal is opened,

wherein, the smart entry system is to initiate a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein to detect the person, the detector is to perform at least one of: a facial detection technique on an image acquired by the camera, a human detection technique on the image acquired by the camera, or a motion classification technique on a plurality of images acquired by the camera.

20. A smart entry system, the system comprising:

a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room;

a door sensor that activates in response to a door to the portal being opened; and

a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person, in response to detecting that the door to the portal is opened,

wherein, the smart entry system is to initiate a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection; and

wherein the smart entry system is to:

attempt to identify the person by accessing an image of the person and performing image analysis to identify the person; and

access a profile database to obtain a set of devices associated with the person when the person is identified, wherein the user device is a device of the set of devices.

21. The system of claim 20 , wherein the image analysis includes a gait analysis of the person's stride.

22. The system of claim 20 , wherein the image analysis includes facial analysis of the person's face.

23. The system of claim 20 , wherein the image analysis includes morphological analysis of the person's body.

Continuity (2)
Continuation 15269585 · Sep 19, 2016
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