Jo Parkes

Title: Jo Parkes and Vehicle Wake-Up Signal Technology.

Introduction

Jo Parkes is an inventor associated with Whitley, Great Britain, and Jaguar Land Rover Limited. His patent work addresses how a vehicle control system can detect a wake-up signal and coordinate the start of an audio session.

Latest Patents

Parkes is associated with 1 patent: “Apparatus and Method for Providing a Wake-Up Signal.” The invention describes a vehicle control system with input, memory, and processing components. A wake-up engine analyzes an audio signal for an acoustic event that indicates a client application should activate. It records a timestamp linked to a predetermined event and provides the client application with timing information about the detected acoustic event. The application can use these details to determine the audio signal’s position in a buffer and initiate an audio session.

Career Highlights

Parkes’s listed patent connects his inventive work with vehicle systems and audio processing at Jaguar Land Rover Limited. The disclosed approach focuses on coordinating signal detection, timing information, and audio-session initiation.

Collaborations

The provided information lists John Cockroft and Daniel Luncan as Parkes’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or describe particular collaborative contributions.

Conclusion

Jo Parkes’s patent describes a method for using acoustic-event detection and timestamp information to help a vehicle system initiate an audio session, reflecting an application of signal-processing innovation in automotive technology.