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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2021
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Hamid M. Golgiri, Livonia, MI (US);
John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Novi, MI (US);
Erick Michael Lavoie, Van Buren Charter Township, MI (US);
Vivekanandh Elangovan, Canton, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for mobile device tethering for a remote parking assist system of a vehicle. A vehicle includes a camera and a body control module. The body control module sends an instruction to a mobile device and captures, with the camera, an image of the mobile device. The body control module also analyzes the image to determine an initial location of the mobile device relative to the vehicle, and based on the initial location, performs dead reckoning on the mobile device to track the mobile device. When the mobile device is within a threshold distance, the body control module enables autonomous parking.