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US 12,007,762 B2Granted
Adjustable height sensor roof
AssigneeZimeno Inc.
InventorsPraveen Varma Penmetsa, Zachary Meyer Omohundro, Christopher Travis Whitney, Rama Venkata Surya Kumar Varma Bhupatiraju, Mizbauddin Mohammed, Bhargav Ramakrishna Reddy
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Abstract
A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.
Claims21
A vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- ground motive members supporting the chassis;
- a seat;
- an operator cab comprising a roof over and above the seat;
- a height adjustable support supporting the roof;
- a sensor supported by the roof to sense structural surroundings about the vehicle;
- and
- an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof based upon the sensed structural surroundings,
- wherein the sensor comprises a camera and wherein the vehicle comprises a controller, the controller configured to output control signals causing the actuator to move the roof and the supported camera between a first height and a second height different than the first height, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the camera to capture a first image with the camera at the first height and a second image with the camera at the second height.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- ground motive members supporting the chassis;
- a seat;
- a roof above the seat;
- a height adjustable support supporting the roof;
- a sensor supported by the roof;
- and
- an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof;
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instruction to direct the processor, the instructions comprising:
- remote operator input sensing instructions to obtain a sensed input sensed by the sensor supported by the roof from an operator remote from the vehicle;
- input recognition instructions to recognize and associate the sensed input with a vehicle action;
- and
- input response control instructions to output control signals to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to carry out the vehicle action.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- ground motive members supporting the chassis;
- a seat;
- a roof above the seat;
- a height adjustable support supporting the roof;
- a sensor to output signals indicating presence of the vehicle on a trailer;
- an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof;
- a controller configured to cause the actuator to automatically lower the roof in response to the signals indicating presence of the vehicle on the trailer.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- ground motive members supporting the chassis;
- a seat;
- a roof above the seat;
- a height adjustable support supporting the roof;
- a sensor supported by the roof to sense structural surroundings about the vehicle;
- and
- an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof based upon the sensed structural surroundings,
- wherein the structural surroundings comprise foliage or crops and wherein the controller is configured to determine a height of the foliage or crops based on the signals and to automatically raise the roof further away from tops of the foliage or crops based on the height of the foliage or crops as determined from the signals, moving the sensor away from the tops of the foliage or crops to provide the sensor with a perspective over the foliage or crops.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.