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US 12,427,841 B2Granted
Tonneau cover operation
AssigneeRivian IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsShakshi Himmatramka, Ivan Swee Choon Lim, Chaitanya Manoj Shah, Bhushan Nagarajan, Manish Jakhi
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Abstract
Systems and methods to detect obstruction include detecting, by a sensor, a first parameter that corresponds to a path of traversal of a tonneau cover, determining, based on a comparison between the first parameter and a second parameter, a presence of an obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover, and modifying operation of the vehicle in response to the presence of the obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover.
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A system comprising:
- a sensor operatively coupled with a tonneau cover of a vehicle, and a processor and memory to:
- detect, by the sensor, a first parameter that corresponds to, at a time period, an actual position of the tonneau cover along a path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
- determine, by the processor, based at least on the time period, a second parameter associated with a predicted position of the tonneau cover along the path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
- determine, by the processor, based on a comparison between the actual position of the tonneau cover and the predicted position of the tonneau cover, a presence of an obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
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- modify, by the processor, operation of the vehicle in response to the presence of the obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover.
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A method comprising:
- detecting, by a sensor operatively coupled with a tonneau cover of a vehicle, a first parameter corresponding to, at a time period, an actual position of the tonneau cover along a path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
- determining, by one or more processors coupled with memory, based at least on the time period, a second parameter associated with a predicted position of the tonneau cover along the path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
- determining, by the one or more processors, based on a comparison between the actual position of the tonneau cover and the predicted position of the tonneau cover, a presence of an obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
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- modifying, by the one or more processors, operation of the vehicle in response to the presence of the obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- a tonneau cover;
- a sensor operatively coupled with the tonneau cover;
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- a processor to:
- detect, by the sensor, a first parameter that corresponds to, at a time period, an actual position of the tonneau cover along a path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
- determine, by the processor, based at least on the time period, a second parameter associated with a predicted position of the tonneau cover along the path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
- determine, by the processor and based on a comparison between the actual position of the tonneau cover and the predicted position of the tonneau cover, a presence of an obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover;
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- modify, by the processor, operation of the vehicle in response to the presence of the obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.