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US 12,583,400 B2Granted
System and method for operating a vehicle access point
AssigneeAUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility US, LLC
InventorsPeter Lamprecht, Nizar Ahamed
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Abstract
A method of operating an access point to a vehicle includes moving a retractable sensor from a retracted position to an extended position. An area surrounding the retractable sensor is monitored for at least one object within the area surrounding the retractable sensor. The retractable sensor is moved from the extended position to the retracted position when the at least one object is no longer detected within a predetermined distance of the retractable sensor.
Claims20
A method of operating an access point to a vehicle, the method comprising;
- moving a retractable sensor from a retracted position to an extended position;
- monitoring an area surrounding the retractable sensor for at least one object within the area surrounding the retractable sensor;
- and
- moving the retractable sensor from the extended position to the retracted position when the at least one object is no longer detected within a predetermined distance of the retractable sensor.
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A rear-view sensor system for a vehicle, the system comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- and
- hardware memory in communication with the hardware processor, the hardware memory storing instructions that when executed on the hardware processor cause the hardware processor to perform operations comprising:
- monitoring an area surrounding a retractable sensor for a person when a retractable sensor is in an extended position;
- and
- moving the retractable sensor from the extended position to a retracted position when an object is not detected within a predetermined distance of the retractable sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.