Interior environment control
OwnerMary Clover Apelian, Lin Yuinventors
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Abstract
A computer-implemented process for controlling a vehicle interior includes detecting a previously defined situation that relates to an undesirable environmental condition of the vehicle interior, and assessing both a risk level and an urgency level, based on a vehicle sensor input. The process also includes generating a vehicle command based upon the detected previously defined situation, the assessed risk level, and assessed urgency level, and executing the generated vehicle command to control at least one of an engine, a window, and a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) unit to modify an environmental condition of the vehicle interior.
Claims20
A computer-implemented process, comprising:
- detecting, by a processor, a condition associated with an interior of a vehicle being monitored, the condition based at least in part, upon reading, by the processor, a sensor signal from a first sensor indicating the presence of an occupant of the interior of the vehicle;
- obtaining temperature curve data associated with the interior, wherein the temperature curve data is a function of an expected temperature range that could occur within the interior and an expected temperature change over time;
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- performing by the processor, a monitoring action, responsive to detecting the condition associated with the interior of the vehicle by:
- electronically recording, by the processor, at least one measurement from a second sensor that is related to a current temperature of the interior;
- performing by the processor, where the current temperature is within a first temperature range:
- electronically issuing, by the processor, a first communication to trigger a first remediation associated with temperature, the first remediation configured to control at least one electronic component of the vehicle without human intervention;
- and
- electronically implementing a first wait time to determine whether the first remediation is satisfied, the first wait time derived from the expected temperature change over time of the temperature curve;
- and
- performing, where the current temperature is within a second temperature range, the second temperature range different from the first temperature range:
- electronically issuing a second communication to trigger a second remediation associated with temperature, the second remediation configured to control at least one electronic component of the vehicle without human intervention;
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- electronically implementing a second wait time to determine whether the second remediation is satisfied, the second wait time derived from the expected temperature change over time of the temperature curve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.