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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2025
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Marco A Martinez Victoria, Cuautitlan Izcal, MX;
Abstract
A vehicle including a light bar, a vehicle sensor and a processor is disclosed. The light bar may be disposed at a vehicle structural component in a vehicle interior portion. The light bar may be configured to illuminate a driver's upper body. The vehicle sensor may detect a driver's gesture in the vehicle interior portion. The processor may obtain inputs associated with the driver's gesture from the vehicle sensor, and determine that the driver's gesture is a predefined gesture based on the inputs. The processor may switch an operational state of the light bar from a deactivated state to an activated state responsive to determining that the driver's gesture is equivalent to the predefined gesture, to enable a user outside the vehicle to view the driver's gestures.