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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:
Jun. 21, 2005

Filed:

Oct. 12, 2001
Applicants:

Kenneth Douros, South Barrington, IL (US);

Judith Lee Gardner, Detroit, MI (US);

Robert Michael Gardner, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Joshua B. Hurwitz, Arlington Heights, IL (US);

Robert H. Leivian, Chandler, AZ (US);

Jens Nagel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Donald Remboski, Deaborn, MI (US);

David John Wheatley, North Barrington, IL (US);

Clifford A. Wood, Tempe, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth Douros, South Barrington, IL (US);

Judith Lee Gardner, Detroit, MI (US);

Robert Michael Gardner, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Joshua B. Hurwitz, Arlington Heights, IL (US);

Robert H. Leivian, Chandler, AZ (US);

Jens Nagel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Donald Remboski, Deaborn, MI (US);

David John Wheatley, North Barrington, IL (US);

Clifford A. Wood, Tempe, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M017/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method () of informing a vehicle operator to improve the operator's performance includes the steps of receiving vehicle operating data (); monitoring an interior portion of the vehicle and receiving operator activity data from the interior portion of the vehicle (); receiving vehicle environment data (); monitoring the vehicle operator and receiving operator condition data relating to a condition of the vehicle operator (); estimating an operator cognitive load (); and prioritizing vehicle information based upon the operator cognitive load for selectively informing the operator of the vehicle information ().


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