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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2021
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Fling Finn Tseng, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Himanshu Verma, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Swati Johar Rawat, Mississauga, CA;
Kalyani Purushottam Sonawane, Plymouth, MI (US);
Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alex Perkins, Detroit, MI (US);
Patrick Maloney, Livonia, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A profile for an occupant is stored. The profile includes a plurality of clusters of sitting positions for the occupant in a seat and classifications of respective clusters as preferred or nonpreferred. Respective clusters are classified as preferred or nonpreferred based on sitting scores for the respective sitting positions in that cluster. A higher sitting score increases a likelihood of the classification being preferred. A series of pressure maps indicating a respective series of sitting positions of the occupant in the seat are received. The pressure maps include a current pressure map. One of the sitting positions is assigned to one of the clusters that is classified as preferred in response to the sitting score of that sitting position being greater than a threshold score. A physical configuration of the seat is adjusted in response to the current sitting position being in one of the clusters that is classified as nonpreferred.