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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Larry Elie, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Timothy J. Potter, Dearborn, MI (US);
Robert F. Novak, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
John Wayne Jaranson, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jeff A. Wallace, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Michael M. Azzouz, Livonia, MI (US);
Gerald J. Heath, Allen Park, MI (US);
Evangelos P. Skoures, Detroit, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A control system for a vehicle door includes a power assist device coupled between a door and a door opening of the vehicle and a sensor. The system further includes a controller that receives a signal from the sensor, identifies a recognized user from image data within the signal, interprets a control gesture by the recognized user from video data within the signal, and causes the power assist device to move the door in response to the control gesture.