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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:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);

Inventors:

Joseph M. A. Djugash, San Jose, CA (US);

Tiffany L. Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); G08B 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/023 (2013.01); G08B 7/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for providing contextual environmental information. One embodiment of a method includes detecting a plurality of objects in an environment, identifying at least a portion of the plurality of objects in the environment, and determining a location of a user relative to the plurality of objects. Some embodiments may be configured to determine a desired number of alerts to provide the user based on a characteristic of the user and, in response to determining that the desired number of alerts is less than a number of objects detected in the environment, provide data related to a location of a subset of the plurality of objects, relative to the user.


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