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US 2025/0164600 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for vehicle occupant location detection
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMark A. CUDDIHY, Eric L. REED, Manoharprasad K RAO, Thomas Lee MILLER
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Abstract
A system includes a plurality of wireless transmitters and a processor configured to: receive, from a mobile device, signal strengths of signals from the wireless transmitters as detected by the mobile device. The processor is also configured to determine a location of the mobile device in a vehicle, based on a distance from the mobile device to each of the wireless transmitters, as indicated by the received signal strengths and store the location of the mobile device as an occupant location.
Claims7
A system comprising:
- a mobile device processor configured to:
- receive communication from a vehicle computing system, the communication indicating a vehicle model;
- determine, based on the vehicle model, locations of vehicle-deployed antennas for the vehicle model;
- detect signals from the plurality of vehicle-deployed antennas;
- determine respective signal strengths for each detected signal;
- determine a distance from each antenna, based on the signal strength of the signal received from each respective antenna;
- determine a device location within a vehicle cabin, based on the distance from each antenna and the determined known locations of the antennas;
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- transmit the device location to a vehicle computing system.
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