Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Mark Edward Porter

Brigitte Frances Mora Richardson

Brian Bennie

Thomas Lee Miller

Gintaras Vincent Puskorius

Scott Andrew Amman

Jeffrey Singer

Francois Charette

Scott Alan Watkins

Anthony Dwayne Cooprider

Kelly Michael Kohlstrand

Michael Alan Blommer

Roger Hayden

An apparatus for detecting an impairment state of a driver in a vehicle is provided. The apparatus comprises a vehicle interface device configured to receive a first audible signal from a driver indicative of at least one word while the driver is in a non-impaired state and to determine a first total time to recite the at least the word based on the first audible signal. The vehicle interface device is further configured to command the driver to recite the at least one word to determine the impairment state of the driver and to receive a second audible signal from the driver indicative of the at least one word. The vehicle interface device is further configured to determine a second total time to recite the at least one word based on the second audible signal and to compare the first total time to the second total time.

System and method for establishing acoustic metrics to detect driver impairment

At least one spoken utterance and a stored vehicle acoustic impulse response can be provided to a computing device. The computing device is programmed to provide at least one speech file based at least in part on the spoken utterance and the vehicle acoustic impulse response.

Acoustic impulse response simulation

A system includes a processor configured to receive settings for one or more vehicle ambient lighting activation sequences. The processor is further configured to receive a signal relating to a notification for which an audio sound could be played. The processor is additionally configured to recognize that an ambient light activation has been enabled. Also, the processor is configured to output a sequence of activated ambient lights within a vehicle, based on the settings and responsive to the received signal.

Method and apparatus for ambient lighting incoming message alert

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