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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:
Oct. 24, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 15, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Noha Ghannam, Canton, MI (US);

Clara Bennie, Sterling Heights, MI (US);

Cheri Hansen, Canton, MI (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 40/09 (2012.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 40/09 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0872 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2540/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for evaluating a driving environment of a vehicle for hearing impairment conditions, detecting a request related to hearing impairment conditions, activating an accessibility mode in response to the request based on the hearing impairment condition, the accessibility mode providing sensory aids in response to the hearing impairment conditions, and altering vehicle motion to enable driver attention to the driving environment. The detecting the request related to hearing impairment conditions includes receiving a driver request for accessibility, a predetermined setting implementing a driver profile indicating a request for accessibility, and an alert from a drivers assisted technology system using artificial intelligence (AI) that the driving environment has hearing impairment conditions. The alert from the DAT system includes analyzing behaviors of the driver including response times to environmental sounds and analyzing driver-chosen volume settings indicative of a hearing-impaired driver.


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