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US 10,589,700 B2Granted
Methods and apparatus for categorization of vehicle loading and display thereof
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAndrew Niedert, Anton Rogness, Elliott Pearson, Joshua Rajasingh
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for categorization of vehicle loading and display thereof. An example apparatus includes a vehicle load condition manager programmed to categorize a first load data and second load data associated with a vehicle, compare a summation of the first and second load data to a threshold, and generate an alert for display via a user interface when the summation of the first and second load data exceeds the threshold.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a sensor interface to receive first load data associated with a vehicle from a sensor;
- a user input interface to receive second load data associated with the vehicle from a user interface;
- a threshold comparator to compare a summation of the first and second load data to a threshold;
- a load categorizer to sort the first and second load data into one or more categories, each of the categories based on sensor input associated with the first load data or user input associated with the second load data, the first load data including vehicle load data or the second load data including an external load on the vehicle;
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- a display generator to output the sorted load data.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a sensor interface to receive first load data associated with a vehicle from a sensor;
- a user input interface to receive second load data associated with the vehicle from a user interface;
- a load categorizer to sort the first and second load data into one or more categories, each of the categories based on sensor input associated with the first load data or user input associated with the second load data;
- a display generator to output the sorted load data;
- a threshold comparator to compare a summation of the first and second load data to a threshold;
- an alert generator to generate an alert for display via the user interface when the summation of the first and second load exceeds the threshold;
- and
- a load planner to generate a recommendation for display via the user interface, the recommendation to recommend decreasing at least one of a first or second load associated with the first or second load data, respectively, such that the summation does not exceed the threshold.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a vehicle load condition manager programmed to:
- categorize first load data and second load data associated with a vehicle into one or more categories, each of the categories based on sensor input associated with the first load data or user input associated with the second load data, the first load data including vehicle load data or the second load data including an external load on the vehicle;
- compare a summation of the first and second load data to a threshold;
- and
- generate an alert for display via a user interface when the summation of the first and second load data exceeds the threshold.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a vehicle load condition manager programmed to:
- categorize first load data and second load data associated with a vehicle into one or more categories, each of the categories based on sensor input associated with the first load data or user input associated with the second load data;
- compare a summation of the first and second load data to a threshold;
- and
- generate an alert for display via a user interface when the summation of the first and second load data exceeds the threshold,
- wherein the vehicle load condition manager is further programmed to generate a recommendation for display via the user interface, the recommendation to recommend decreasing a load on the vehicle such that the summation does not exceed the threshold.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving first load data associated with a vehicle from a sensor;
- receiving second load data associated with the vehicle from a user interface;
- sorting the first and second load data into one or more categories, each of the categories based on sensor input associated with the first load data or user input associated with the second load data;
- comparing a summation of the first and second load data to a threshold;
- and
- generating an alert for display via the user interface when the summation of the first and second load data exceeds the threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.