Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

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Gary Steven Strumolo

Kwaku O Prakah-Asante

Manoharprasad K Rao

Ronald Hugh Miller

Pietro Buttolo

James Stewart Rankin, Ii

Basavaraj Tonshal

Pramita Mitra

Yifan Chen

Stuart C Salter

Jeffrey Allen Greenberg

Hsin-Hsiang Yang

Stephen Ronald Tokish

Dimitar Petrov Filev

Perry Robinson Macneille

Mark Anthony Cuddihy

Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin

Theodore Charles Wingrove

Qianyi Wang

Brian Nash

Ali Hassani

Krishnaswamy Venkatesh Prasad

David Michael DiMeo

David Melcher

Craig John Simonds

Kelly Lee Zechel

Nikolay V Smirnov

Fling Finn Tseng

Jialiang Le

David Anthony Wagner

Nanxin Wang

Saeed David Barbat

Mahendra Somasara Dassanayake

Mark Schunder

Yimin Liu

Jeroen Lem

Paul Aldighieri

Doron M Elliott

Aric David Shaffer

Samuel Edward Ebenstein

Vijitha Senaka Kiridena

Louis Tijerina

Sheran Anthony Alles

Robert Kwiecinski

Priyaranjan Prasad

Reates Curry

Hanaan Elmessiri

Viswanathan Babu

Ksenia Kozak

Mohammad Omar Faruque

Dean M Jaradi

John Robert Van Wiemeersch

S M Iskander Farooq

Jianbo Lu

Ryan Abraham McGee

John Wayne Jaranson

Thomas Edward Pilutti

Jeffrey Thomas Remillard

Adil Nizam Siddiqui

Brad Alan Ignaczak

Ari Garo Caliskan

Patrick Kevin Holub

Sean Timothy Ryan

Margherita Zanini-Fisher

Laurens Van Den Acker

Bryan Roger Goodman

Gregory Hugh Smith

Jian Wan

Radhakrishnan Swaminathan

Dipanjan Ghosh

Padma Aiswarya Kolisetty

Irving Toivo Salmeen

Jeffry Allen Greenberg

Jacob Braslaw

Nagendra Palle

Jose M Paris-Gonzalez

Mike Blommer

Edward Clark Nelson

Irv T Salmeen

David D DiMeo

Anna Zevalkink

Chad Nathan Cook

Laurine Joyce Leep-Apolloni

Kelley Lee Zechel

Kawku O Prakah-Asante

Jeanette J Epps

A method of in-vehicle tracking begins with establishing a communication link between a mobile device and a navigation system of a vehicle. The navigation system presents driving instructions leading to a destination. Each of a plurality of locations is serially passed over the communication link from the mobile device to the navigation system. Additionally, each of the plurality of locations is serially set, as it is communicated, as the destination within the navigation system. As the destination within the navigation system is updated, the driving instructions leading to that destination are updated as well.

In-vehicle tracking apparatus and method

A system that includes a wearable device, and a method of using the system, including: receiving, at a first transceiver element of a wearable device, a target beam from a ride-share vehicle, the element having a first axis of reception; and when the first axis is oriented toward the beam, providing an indication, via the device, to a user thereof.

Identifying a vehicle using a wearable device

A method includes transmitting a ride-share request to a ride-share server, the ride-share request including information about an accessibility device, determining a present orientation of the accessibility device, and transmitting the present orientation of the accessibility device to the ride-share vehicle. Another method includes transmitting a present orientation of an accessibility device, receiving a target orientation of the accessibility device, illuminating a light projector, determining that the accessibility device is in the target orientation, and turning off the light projector.

Ride-share accessibility

A vehicle occupant messaging system includes a communication tag located in a buckle of a vehicle seatbelt assembly and configured to wirelessly transmit signals, to a mobile device, representing a location of a passenger using the mobile device in a host vehicle. The system further includes a communication transceiver programmed to transmit messages to the mobile device and a system processor programmed to generate the messages to the mobile device, the messages identifying the location of the passenger.

Role-based HMI context dynamic update

A system may include an in-vehicle component, including a first control set to configure the component, configured to identify a device associated with a user approach to the component; and send an interaction request to the device to cause the device to display a user interface for the component including a second control set to configure the component, the second control set including at least one function unavailable in the first control set. A personal device may receive, from an in-vehicle component including a first control set to configure the component, a user interface definition descriptive of a second control set to configure the component; and receive, from the component, a request to display a user interface for the component including the second control set to configure the component, the second control set including at least one function unavailable in the first control set.

In-vehicle component user interface

Dual-mode augmented reality interfaces for mobile devices are disclosed herein. A dual-mode augmented reality interface of a mobile device includes a first mode to be presented via a user interface of the mobile device in response to detecting an occurrence of a first motion of the mobile device. The dual-mode augmented reality interface further includes a second mode to be presented via the user interface in response to detecting an absence of the first motion. The second mode is different from the first mode. The first mode may be a browsing mode, and the second mode may be a learning mode. The first motion may be a panning motion.

Dual-mode augmented reality interfaces for mobile devices

Data about a skin response characteristic are collected from a vehicle occupant. A target cabin temperature is determined based on the skin data. A climate control system is adjusted based on the target cabin temperature.

Enhanced climate control

A vehicle gesture system includes a processor connected to a transceiver and programmed to detect a wireless device associated with a vehicle feature settings interface for a first vehicle feature. The processor is further programmed to detect the wireless device based on received user input at the vehicle feature settings interface of the first vehicle feature. The processor is further programmed to control a setting for the first vehicle feature based on received data associated with one or more gestures made using the wireless device.

Methods and systems for enabling gesture control for a vehicle feature

Image data of a vehicle occupant are collected from a plurality of cameras. A dimensional model of substantially an entire body of the vehicle occupant is generated based on the image data. A gesture performed by the vehicle occupant is recognized based on the dimensional model. A vehicle subsystem is adjusted based on the gesture.

Virtual vehicle occupant rendering

A system includes a vehicle computer that is programmed to wirelessly broadcast one or more actions included in boarding of a vehicle, and receive, from a mobile device, confirmation that the one or more actions are completed. The vehicle computer is programmed to actuate a vehicle component based on the received confirmation.

Vehicle boarding confirmation

A method for adjusting a vehicle seat includes moving each of a set of first valves respectively associated with ones of a group of first bladders into an open position allowing the receipt of air into and fluidic communication among the group of first bladders, inflating the first group of bladders to a predetermined pressure, and closing each of the set of first valves to maintain an inflation level of each of the first bladders.

Method for customizing a vehicle seat

A vehicle voice processor includes a processing device and a data storage medium. The processing device is programmed to receive identification information from a wearable device, identify a speaker from the identification information, identify a dialect associated with the speaker from the identification information, select a predetermined acoustic model, and adjust the predetermined acoustic model based at least in part on the dialect identified.

Dynamic acoustic model for vehicle

Methods and apparatus to monitor an activity level of a driver are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a processor, eye movement data from a sensor monitoring eye movements of a driver of a vehicle. The method includes calculating, via the processor, an eye movement activity index using a substantially real-time recursive analysis of the eye movement data. The method further includes calculating, via the processor, a low activity indicator for the driver based on the eye movement activity index. The method also includes executing a task based on the low activity indicator.

Methods and apparatus to monitor an activity level of a driver

A system includes a wearable device including a memory and a processor. The processor receives a verbal input for a vehicle from a user. The processor interprets the verbal input to locate in the memory at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer. The processor generates a message corresponding to the verbal input including the at least one datum, and sends the message to the vehicle.

Vehicle voice recognition including a wearable device

A vehicle seat includes a group of first inflatable bladders, each first bladder having a respective first valve coupled therewith and a pump coupled with each of the first valves. The seat further includes a controller in communication with the pump and with the first valves to cause the pump to inflate the first group of bladders to a predetermined pressure and to close the valves to maintain a subsequent inflation level of each of the first bladders.

Apparatus and method for customizing a vehicle seat

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Gary Steven Strumolo