Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

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Jarvis Chau

Norman Joseph Weigert

Amanda Kalhous

Neeraj Roy Gautama

Mark A Manickaraj

Michael J Chappell

Chris Wisniewski

Roddi L MacInnes

Gilles Delorme

Linxuan Yang

Alaa M Khamis

Shaun S Marshall

Donald Eng

David A Canella

Steve A Warden

Christopher L Oesterling

Fred W Huntzicker

Ansaf Ibrahem Alrabady

Thomas M Forest

Jonglee Park

Ralph D Schlottke

Todd M Tumas

Shiv G Patel

Cem U Saraydar

Ute Winter

Lei Li

Mark T Gaylord

David Cochrane

Scott E Jackson

Radu D Sotir

Michael A Celotto

Susan C Ellis

Alec M Wuorinen

Sean S Monteiro

Prakash Murugesan

Jomo Hanley

Paul A Donald

Sachin Raviram

Maria Alejandra Gonzalez

Kelley J Kettenbeil

Bernard V Laurus

Connor Duesterwald

Frederick T Dixon

Akkas A Mughal

Fuad Al-Amin

Glenn B Bryksaw

Nicholis Festa

Nathan Robinson

Ian Gibbs

Gina E Griffith

Eugenio DiMarco

Anurag Chelamchirayil Muraleedharan

Matthew Manko

Noah Summers

Paul H K Hui

Steven Langille

A utility vehicle including a housing configured for storing goods therein during transport. A handlebar extends into a chassis sleeve defined by a chassis. The handlebar is slidably moveable forward and backward within the chassis sleeve. A sensor includes a flexible member having a first end mounted to the chassis sleeve and a second end mounted to the handlebar. The sensor is configured to sense a magnitude and a direction of a force exerted on the handlebar by an operator. A control module is in communication with the sensor and a motor. The control module is configured to control motor speed and motor direction of the motor based on the magnitude and the direction of the force exerted on the handlebar by the operator as sensed by the sensor.

Smart handlebar for utility vehicles

A system for vehicle Bluetooth pairing is provided. The system includes a smartphone configured for Bluetooth communication. The system further includes a vehicle including a computerized pairing operation controller configured for Bluetooth communication. The computerized pairing operation controller includes programming to emit a notification signal detectable by the smartphone. The smartphone includes programming to establish proximity to the vehicle based upon the notification signal and establish a Bluetooth low energy connection to the vehicle based upon establishing the proximity. The computerizing pairing operation controller further includes programming to automatically set up a Bluetooth connection after the Bluetooth low energy connection is established.

System and method for vehicle bluetooth pairing

A system in a vehicle includes a personal thermal device. The personal thermal device provides heating or cooling to an individual occupant of the vehicle. The system also includes a controller implementing reinforcement learning to control the personal thermal device. The controller obtains states, from one or more sensors, indicating current conditions, to obtain a score that is determined according to the states and that represents a reward used in the reinforcement learning. The controller provides a stochastic policy indicating a probability of taking a particular action to control the personal thermal device based on the score acting as a feedback for feedback control of the personal thermal device using the reinforcement learning.

Adaptive personal thermal control in a vehicle

A protective enclosure for an electronic control unit (ECU) to minimize risk of environmental intrusion includes a base portion, a first housing, a second housing, a first gasket, a vibration attenuating insert, a first electrical connector, a second electrical connector, a third electrical connector, and a tether. The first housing is sealably assembled onto the base portion, and the first housing and the base portion define a first chamber to house the telematics module. The second housing and the base portion define a second chamber. The tether attaches the base portion and the second housing.

Protective enclosure for an electronic device

A display device include a first transparent layer, a second transparent layer and a spacer arranged between the first transparent layer and the second transparent layer to define a first region and a second region. A first plurality of electrodes are arranged on an inner surface of the first transparent layer in the first region. A plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are connected to the first plurality of electrodes in the first region. A second plurality of electrodes are arranged on the inner surface of the first transparent layer in the second region. A third plurality of electrodes are arranged on the inner surface of the second transparent layer in the second region. Particles are arranged in the second region between the second plurality of electrodes and the third plurality of electrodes.

High contrast transparent display with automatic shading

A system for context-based adaptive virtual experience control in a vehicle is provided. The system includes an output device configured for providing a sensory output to a user of the vehicle and a computerized virtual experience control module configured for controlling the output device based upon a virtual experience mode. The system further includes a computerized context-based adaptive control module configured for monitoring contextual data related to one of the user of the vehicle or operation of the vehicle, monitoring feedback from the user related to one of favor or disfavor related to the virtual experience mode, and utilizing the contextual data and the feedback from the user to selectively, automatically command activation of the virtual experience mode.

System and method for virtual experience as a service with context-based adaptive control

A smart glass display includes a first glass layer, a second glass layer, a display layer, an auto-shading layer and a control module. The display layer is disposed between the first glass layer and the second glass layer and includes an array of light emitting diodes and at least one ambient light sensor. The at least one ambient light sensor is configured to detect a level of ambient light at the display layer. The auto-shading layer includes suspended particle devices each of which configured to selectively provide different levels of transparency. The control module is configured to, based on an output of the at least one ambient light sensor, adjust a transparency level of at least a portion of the auto-shading layer.

Global and local contrast control with brightness and shading adjustment of smart glass display

Methods and systems are provided for loading and unloading an item onto a vehicle. In one embodiment, a system includes: a loading system configured to receive a locker configured to store the item; a shuttle transfer system configured to transfer the locker to a storage position within the vehicle; and a swing arm system that couples to the loading system and the shuttle transfer system, the swing arm system configured to adjust a position of the loading system relative to the vehicle.

Loading and unloading systems and methods

A method for finding a distressed vehicle operated by a first user located in an urban area includes providing a first mobile device of a first user. The first mobile device is electronically connected to a wireless communication network, and the first user is in possession of a vehicle. An event is detected that has occurred to the vehicle and a severity level of the event. When the severity level of the event is above a threshold it is determine that the event was sufficient enough to warrant an emergency response. A current position is determined of the first mobile device of the first user. A second mobile device of a second user is searched for within a first distance of the current position of the first mobile device. A first notification is communicated to the second user via the second mobile device.

Method for locating a vehicle and user

A method for automatically adjusting a human machine interface (HMI) display includes: collecting customer location data from a personal communication device and from sensor signals from a sensor mounted on an automobile vehicle as a customer approaches the vehicle; determining if the customer is within one of a first distance range of the vehicle, a second distance range closer to the vehicle than the first distance range, or a third distance range closer than the second distance range; and setting an illumination level of an HMI display of the vehicle based on the distance range, wherein the illumination level is set to: a high brightness if the customer is within the first distance range, a medium brightness less than the high brightness if the customer is within the second distance range; or a low brightness less than the medium brightness if the customer is within the third distance range.

Exterior human machine interface display adjustment based on customer location

A method for manufacturing a light emitting diode (LED) display includes providing a template having keyed holes disposed in the template, depositing keyed LED's onto the template manipulating the keyed LED's such that each of the keyed LED's fits within a corresponding keyed hole in the template, and transferring the keyed LED's onto a circuit board.

Method for manufacturing a light emitting diode display

A method and apparatus for tracking intent or awareness based on a gaze of a user are provided. The method includes receiving gaze information of the gaze of the user; based on the gaze information, determining whether a function of the vehicle was activated by the user; in response to determining that the function was activated by the user, generating and storing historical gaze information in a database; and in response to determining that the function is not activated by the user, calculating a probability that the function will be activated by the user during a processing cycle and generating and storing the historical gaze information in the database based on the calculated probability and size of the database. The apparatus and method may be used to track the gaze of a user of a vehicle and predict user behavior based on the historical gaze information.

Apparatus and method for determining intent of user based on gaze information

A power generation platform for delivering power to an external load includes an electrical system mounted to an autonomously-controlled chassis. The chassis has a powertrain that is responsive to control signals from a controller. The electrical system includes a fuel cell or other clean power supply for propelling the chassis, a direct current (DC) charging unit, a turbojet, a battery pack, and one or more electric machines. The DC charging unit and the battery pack are selectively connectable to the external load to deliver power to the external load, e.g., a propulsion battery pack of a vehicle or other system. The turbojet has a compressor, combustion chamber, and turbine, and injects low-emissions fuel into and combusts the fuel in the combustion chamber. The electric machine(s) are rotatably coupled to the compressor and/or the turbine to generate and transmit electricity to the battery pack.

Autonomous hybrid power generation platform

A multi-layer light alert display apparatus and control method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: an illumination device configured to illuminate a graphic generating layer, a plurality of graphic generating layers, each graphic generating layer of the plurality of graphic generating layers being configured to generate a graphic, and a controller configured to control the illumination device to allow light to pass through at least one graphic generating layer of the plurality of graphic generating layers so that the light causes a graphic corresponding to the at least one graphic generating layer to be displayed on a surface.

Graphical multi-layer light alert display and control method thereof

An apparatus for tracking a gaze of a user is provided. The apparatus includes a memory including computer executable instructions; and a processor that reads and executes the computer executable instructions. The instructions cause the processor to receive gaze information associated with the gaze of the user; based on the gaze information, determine whether change information associated with the gaze of the user is greater than a threshold value; and in response to determining the change information is greater than the threshold value, predict at least one from among a gaze vector of the gaze of the user and a location of a gaze target of the gaze of the user based on a kinematic model. The gaze tracking apparatus may be used in a vehicle to perform vehicle functions based on the gaze of a user of a vehicle or to update gaze modeling database.

Apparatus and method for predicting targets of visual attention

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Jarvis Chau