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US 2017/0361792 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for vehicle occupant location detection
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJeroen LEM, Pietro BUTTOLO, James Stewart RANKIN, II
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Abstract
A system includes a processor configured to determine the location of a wirelessly-identified device within a vehicle. The processor is also configured to determine a locking schema associated with the device for locking child-lockable vehicle systems and apply the locking schema to corresponding systems in a defined proximity to the determined device location.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- determine a location of a wirelessly-identified device within a vehicle;
- obtain a locking schema associated with the device and defining locking states for child-lockable vehicle systems;
- and
- determine which of the child-lockable vehicle systems are within a predefined proximity to the device location;
- and
- set the locking states, based on the locking schema, of child-lockable vehicle systems in the predefined proximity to the device location.
4 more elements
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining a locking schema associated with an indentified wireless device, the schema defining locking state settings for child-lockable vehicle systems;
- setting states of the child-lockable vehicle systems, based on the locking state settings, and wherein the systems are determined to be within a predefined proximity to a determined device location within a vehicle.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- obtaining a locking schema defining child-lockable system locking state settings, the schema associated with a wireless device within a vehicle at a determined location within the vehicle;
- and
- applying the locking schema to child-lockable systems within the vehicle in a predefined proximity to the determined location, such that the child-lockable systems are set to the locking states defined by the locking schema when the child-lockable systems are within the predefined proximity to the device location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.