Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Qianyi Wang

Theodore Charles Wingrove

Pramita Mitra

Brian Nash

Pietro Buttolo

Gary Steven Strumolo

Basavaraj Tonshal

Yifan Chen

Kelly Lee Zechel

Abhishek Sharma

Mohammad Abouali

Huizhu Crystal Wang

Joshua Daniel Lyon

Steven Lin

Kelley Lee Zechel

Adam Brooks

Jenna Love

A system includes a processor configured to receive requirement values, from a vehicle-providing entity, for a plurality of predefined tunable routing parameters. The processor is also configured to select and assign entity-associated, routing parameter consideration-levels, based on the values correlated to a predefined schema of consideration-levels for each parameter. The processor is further configured to receive a plurality of pick-up requests and determine, using the entity-associated routing parameter consideration-levels, a routing-plan for a plurality of vehicles to service the requests such that the received values are met.

Method and apparatus for tunable multi-vehicle routing

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 first horizontal axis of a plane of a display is determined based on a user input. Angular movement data of the display is collected. A second horizontal axis of the plane of the display is determined based on the angular movement data. A second user input on the display is mapped based on the second horizontal axis.

Enhanced wearable device operation

A system includes a computer programmed to identify a plurality of audio amplitudes of an audio input. The computer is programmed to identify a plurality of time intervals of the audio input between respective identified audio amplitudes. The computer is programmed to map a haptic pattern based on identified audio amplitudes and the time intervals. The computer is programmed to actuate a motor to output the haptic pattern.

Haptic device operation

A computer is programmed to receive data from an occupant wearable device and detect a movement of the wearable device relative to the vehicle steering wheel based on a movement classifier. The movement classifier is created based on ground truth data indicating the movement of the wearable device while an occupant's hand contacts the vehicle steering wheel. The computer is further programmed to then cause an action in the vehicle according to the detected movement.

Gesture-based vehicle control

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 vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to detecting a speeding event, generate an alert factor and send an alert to at least one of an in-vehicle output device or an outside-vehicle output device based on the alert factor; and responsive to detecting a user failing to respond, increase the alert factor and send the alert for output based on the increased alert factor.

Empathy-based speed alert

A mobile device receives a message from a vehicle computing platform via remote process communication (RPC), updates an origin address of the message to indicate the mobile device, sends the message to a destination address of the message, receives a response message from the destination, updates a destination address of the response message to indicate the computing platform, and sends the response message to the computing platform via the RPC. A computing platform constructs a remote procedure call (RPC) message by a virtual network interface application for a request received from a vehicle application for a network protocol unsupported by a mobile device, and sends the RPC to the mobile device to cause the mobile device to update an origin address of the request to indicate the mobile device and send the request to a destination address of the request.

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