Intra-vehicular mobile device management

摘要

The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing mobile device usage in a moving vehicle. In response to detecting that a user is traveling at a speed consistent with vehicular travel, optical data from an interior of the moving vehicle is detected. The optical data is analyzed to identify a set of vehicular markers. The user's intra-vehicular location is determined in relation to the set of vehicular markers. If the user's intra-vehicular location is the driver's seat, then restricted use protocols are initiated.

主权项

1. A method for managing usage of a mobile device of a mobile device system, the mobile device having a forward-facing optical device and a reverse user-facing optical device, the method comprising:
responsive to the mobile device system detecting the mobile device is traveling at a speed consistent with vehicular travel, detecting optical data from the forward-facing and reverse user-facing optical devices from an interior of a moving vehicle; analyzing the optical data with the mobile device system to identify a user and a set of vehicular markers, at least one of the identified vehicular markers being a vehicular marker from optical data detected from the reverse user-facing optical device; determining with the mobile device system an intra-vehicular location of the user of the mobile device in relation to the set of vehicular markers; and responsive to determining that the intra-vehicular location of the user is positioned within a driver's seat, the mobile device system initiating restricted use protocols for selectively modifying functionality of the mobile device; and wherein determining the intra-vehicular location of the user further comprises: identifying using forward-facing optical data a vehicular configuration of the moving vehicle; and determining, from the reverse user-facing optical data, the intra-vehicular location of the user from a relative position of the user and the set of vehicular markers with reference to the identified vehicular configuration.