Vehicle having pet monitoring and related controls
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Hussein H. Berry, Annette Lynn Huebner, Marguerite Lynn Kimball, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
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Abstract
A vehicle is provided that includes a vehicle body, a plurality of RF signal receivers located at a plurality of locations within the vehicle, an RF signal transmitter configured to be located on a pet for transmitting an RF signal, and a controller for processing the RF signal received by each of the plurality of RF signal receivers and determining a location of the pet based on the received RF signals, wherein the controller generates an output based on the location of the pet and controls at least one vehicle function based on the output.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body defining a cabin interior;
- a plurality of RF signal receivers located at a plurality of locations on the vehicle;
- an RF signal transmitter configured to be located on a pet for transmitting an RF signal;
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- a controller for processing the RF signal received by each of the plurality of RF signal receivers and determining a location of the pet within the cabin interior based on the received RF signal from each of the plurality of RF signal receivers, wherein the determined location is one location of a number of locations within the cabin interior relative to a seat position or a window.
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body defining a cabin interior;
- a plurality of RF signal receivers located at a plurality of locations on the vehicle;
- an RF signal transmitter configured to be located on a pet for transmitting an RF signal;
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- a controller for processing the RF signal received by each of the plurality of RF signal receivers and determining a location of the pet within the cabin interior based on the received RF signal from each of the plurality of RF signal receivers, wherein the determined location is one location of a number of locations within the cabin interior relative to a seat position or a window, and wherein the controller generates an output based on the location of the pet and controls at least one vehicle related function based on the output.
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body defining a cabin interior;
- a plurality of first RF signal transceivers located at a plurality of locations on the vehicle for transmitting and receiving RF signals;
- a second RF signal transceiver configured to be located on a pet for transmitting and receiving RF signals;
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- a controller for processing the RF signals received by the plurality of first RF signal transceivers and the second RF signal transceiver and determining a location of the pet within the cabin interior based on the received RF signals, wherein the determined location is one location of a number of locations within the cabin interior relative to a seat position or a window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.