Real-time contextual vehicle lighting systems and methods

A vehicle, comprising:

• an internal lighting system comprising a plurality of lighting devices,
• wherein the internal lighting system is configured for outputting multiple different lighting configurations, and
• wherein each lighting configuration is defined by at least one selected from the group consisting of a brightness of emitted light, a color of emitted light, a number and identity of the plurality of lighting devices that are turned on, a time-based sequence of changes to a color of one or more of the plurality of lighting devices, and a time-based sequence of changes to a brightness of one or more of the plurality of lighting devices;
• one or more sensors configured to capture data indicative of a trigger criterion,
• wherein the trigger criterion comprises one or more contextualized emotional indicators, and the one or more contextualized emotional indicators are generated from a combination of primitive emotional indications, a duration that the primitive emotional indications deviate from a predetermined neutral state, the sensor data, and historical data;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled to the internal lighting system and the one or more sensors, the processor configured to:
• cause the internal lighting system to output a first lighting configuration;
• detect, based on the data captured by the one or more sensors, the trigger criterion has been satisfied;
• and
• modify a configuration of the internal lighting system to output a second lighting configuration in response to detecting the satisfaction of the trigger criterion, wherein the trigger criterion is satisfied when the processor determines that predetermined rules for each of the primitive emotional indications are satisfied by the data captured by the one or more sensors.