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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2017
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Joshua Wheeler, Trenton, MI (US);

Scott Andrew Amman, Milford, MI (US);

Leah Busch, Berkley, MI (US);

Ranjani Rangarajan, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

John Edward Huber, Novi, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 9/06 (2006.01); B60R 16/037 (2006.01); G01H 11/08 (2006.01); H04R 17/02 (2006.01); H04R 19/04 (2006.01); H04R 23/02 (2006.01); G01H 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 16/0373 (2013.01); G01H 11/00 (2013.01); G01H 11/08 (2013.01); H04R 17/02 (2013.01); H04R 19/04 (2013.01); H04R 23/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring of vehicle window vibrations for voice-command recognition. An example vehicle includes a window, an outer layer, a vibration sensor coupled to the window to detect audio vibrations, an audio actuator coupled to the outer layer to vibrate the outer layer, and a controller. The controller is to detect a voice command from a user via the vibration sensor, identify an audio response based upon the voice command, and emit the audio response to the user via the audio actuator.


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