Integrated vehicle cabin with driver or passengers' prior conditions and activities
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsHsin-hsiang Yang, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Gary Steven Strumolo
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Abstract
Described herein is a system, apparatus, and method for providing an integrated vehicle cabin experience. A wearable device including one or more bio-physical sensors may be configured to sense bio-physical conditions from a wearer of the wearable device and determine a state of the wearer. The state information may then be referenced by a vehicle computing system in order to control one or more vehicle systems and/or components that create a cabin environment.
Claims16
A vehicle computing system comprising:
- a memory that includes cabin settings corresponding to a physical condition of the user;
- and
- a processor in communication with the memory, configured to:
- analyze biometric data received from a portable device to determine a user activity level before the user entered the vehicle;
- identify the physical condition based on the biometric data and the activity level;
- and
- adjust the cabin settings based on the identified physical condition.
A method for controlling a vehicle cabin environment, comprising:
- receiving, by a processor, biometric data from a wearable device;
- analyzing, by the processor, the biometric to determine a user activity level before the user entered the vehicle
- identifying, by the processor, a physical condition of the user based on current biometric data of the user and the determined activity level;
- and
- controlling, by the processor, cabin settings based on the physical condition of the user.
A vehicle cabin control system, comprising:
- a wearable device comprising a plurality of sensors configured to obtain biometric data from a user;
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- a vehicle computing system configured to:
- receive the biometric data from the wearable device;
- analyze the biometric data received from the wearable device to determine a user activity level before the user entered the vehicle;
- identify a physical condition of the user based on current biometric data of the user and the determined activity level;
- and
- adjust cabin settings based on the physical condition of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.