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US 11,636,870 B2Granted
Smoking cessation systems and methods
AssigneeDENSO International America, Inc.
InventorsSibu Varughese, Martin Nespolo, Thomas Krzyzak, Gareth Webb, Wilson Yim, Matthew Johnson
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Abstract
A smoking cessation system of a vehicle includes: a microphone configured to generate an output based on sound within a passenger cabin of the vehicle; a virtual assistant module configured to identify a future smoking event within the passenger cabin of the vehicle based on the output of the microphone; and a smoking module configured to take at least one remedial action in response to the identification of a future smoking event.
Claims19
A smoking cessation system of a vehicle, comprising:
- a microphone configured to generate an output based on sound within a passenger cabin of the vehicle;
- a virtual assistant module configured to identify a future smoking event within the passenger cabin of the vehicle based on the output of the microphone;
- a smoking module configured to take at least one remedial action in response to the identification of a future smoking event;
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- a blower module configured to turn on a blower of a heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in response to the identification of a future smoking event.
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A smoking cessation system, comprising:
- at least one of:
- (a) a microphone configured to generate an output based on sound present;
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- (b) a global positioning system (GPS) transceiver configured to output a present location;
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- a virtual assistant module configured to predict an occurrence of a future smoking event based on at least one of (a) the output of the microphone and (b) the present location;
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- a blower module configured to turn on a blower of a heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in response to the identification of a future smoking event.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.