US 11,810,400 B2
Method of assessing a pilot emotional state
Stefan Alexander Schwindt, Cheltenham (GB); Alexander S. Chen, Long Beach, CA (US); and Peter H. Tu, Niskayuna, NY (US)
Assigned to GE Aviation Systems Limited, Cheltenham (GB)
Filed by GE Aviation Systems Limited, Cheltenham (GB)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/751,037.
Application 17/751,037 is a continuation of application No. 16/702,747, filed on Dec. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,341,352.
Claims priority of application No. 1820115 (GB), filed on Dec. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0284737 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); A61B 5/18 (2006.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01)
CPC G06V 40/20 (2022.01) [A61B 5/18 (2013.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of assessing an emotional state of an individual pilot of an aircraft and sending an alert based on the emotional state, the method comprising:
tracking during a time period, using at least one sensor, one of an image sensor data, voice data or a biometric parameter of the individual pilot;
assigning, using a controller that is operatively connected to at least one sensor, a probability to each emotional state from a list of emotional states of the individual pilot based on one of the image sensor data, the voice data or the biometric parameter;
determining, using the controller, a likely emotional state of the individual pilot based on the assigned probabilities;
comparing, using the controller, the probability of the likely emotional state of the individual pilot with a baseline emotional state of the individual pilot; and
sending, using the controller, an alert if the likely emotional state deviates from the baseline emotional state by a predetermined threshold.