B60W2540/01

TRANSPORT VALUE EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT
20230249692 · 2023-08-10 ·

An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a transport, an opportunity to perform an action, where the opportunity provides an additional result to the transport and responsive to performing the action, receiving, by the transport, the additional result, where the additional result is proportional to a level of the action performed.

OCCUPANT DETECTION SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING POSITION IN A VEHICLE BASED ON COARSE-GRAINED LOCALIZATION

An occupant detection system for determining a unique position of a detected presence within an interior cabin area of a vehicle includes a plurality of signal conversion devices each including conversion circuitry. Each of the plurality of signal conversion devices are assigned to a specific position within the interior cabin area of the vehicle. The conversion circuitry for the plurality of signal conversion devices include unique sub-carrier frequency that corresponds to the unique position within the interior cabin area of the vehicle. The occupant detection system includes a wireless control module including a multi-band transceiver having a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals on a first frequency band and a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals on a second frequency band.

System and method for identifying a type of vehicle occupant based on locations of a portable device
11760360 · 2023-09-19 · ·

A system and method for identifying a type of vehicle occupant based on locations of a portable device that include receiving a plurality of communication signals from the portable device and evaluating received signal strength measurements of the plurality of communication signals to determine a tracking pattern that includes a tracked path of the portable device as a user approaches a vehicle, enters the vehicle, and is seated within a particular seat of the vehicle. The system and method also include identifying the user as a driver of the vehicle or a non-driving occupant of the vehicle based on the tracking pattern and controlling at least one vehicle system by executing vehicle settings associated with the driver of the vehicle and the non-driving occupant of the vehicle based on identifying the user as the driver of the vehicle or the non-driving occupant of the vehicle.

PASSENGER DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD
20220024407 · 2022-01-27 · ·

A passenger detection apparatus may include: an SBR (Seat Belt Reminder) sensor unit having a plurality of SBR sensors installed in respective seats of a vehicle, and connected in parallel to one another; and a control unit configured to detect a combined resistance value of the SBR sensor unit, compare the detected combined resistance value to resistance values of a combined resistance table which is preset and stored in an internal memory, and determine that a passenger corresponding to each boarding zone of the combined resistance table is on board, when the detected combined resistance value is not included in a grey zone.

CHILD RIDER FEATURES FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

An autonomous vehicle including a vehicle propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, and a computing system that is in communication with the vehicle propulsion system, the brake system, and the steering system. The computing system can receive an indication an account associated with a passenger of the autonomous vehicle for a trip of the autonomous vehicle includes a predefined parent-child link with a second account. The predefined parent-child link indicates the account associated with the passenger is subordinate to the second account and a parent-child relationship exists between the passenger and a person associated with the second account. Responsive to receiving the indication of the parent-child link and the passenger being the child in the parent-child relationship, the computing system can control the autonomous vehicle to enable a linked account feature that would otherwise be disabled.

VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE

A vehicle travel control device includes computation circuitry, and a device controller that controls actuation of a traveling device mounted on a vehicle, based on a result from the computation circuitry. The computation circuitry identifies a vehicle outdoor environment based on an output from image circuitry that acquires image information of vehicle outdoor environment, sets a route on which the vehicle is to travel, in accordance with the vehicle outdoor environment previously identified, determines a target motion of the vehicle to follow the route previously set, calculates a target physical quantity to be executed by the traveling device to achieve the target motion previously determined, and calculates a controlled variable of the traveling device such that the target physical quantity calculated is achieved, and the device controller outputs a control signal to the traveling device so as to control the traveling device to control a motion of the vehicle.

TECHNIQUE FOR EFFICIENT RETRIEVAL OF PERSONALITY DATA
20220004877 · 2022-01-06 ·

A technique for enabling efficient retrieval of a digital representation of personality data of a user (402) by a client device (406) from a server (404) is disclosed, wherein the digital representation of the personality data is processed at the client device (406) to provide a user-adapted service to the user (402). A method implementation of the technique is performed by the server (404) and comprises storing a neural network being trained to compute personality data of a user based on input obtained from the user (402), receiving, from the client device (406), a request for a digital representation of personality data for a user (402), and sending, to the client device (406), the requested digital representation of the personality data of the user (402), wherein the personality data of the user is computed using the neural network based on input obtained from the user (402).

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE HAZARDOUS CONDITION DETECTION

Systems and methods for detecting a vehicle hazardous condition of a recreational vehicle and activating a distress mode of the recreation vehicle in response to detecting the vehicle hazardous condition.

Vehicle control apparatus
11783823 · 2023-10-10 · ·

A vehicle control apparatus to be used in a vehicle controllable on the basis of a voice input includes a determination unit and an input unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether a main operator of the vehicle is in a predetermined state where the main operator is not possible to perform an operation or is not performing an operation. The input unit is configured to accept an operational input based on a voice of the main operator, as well as to accept an operational input based on a voice of a passenger of the vehicle in a case where the determination unit has determined that the main operator is in the predetermined state.

VEHICLE MEETINGS

A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to provide an identification of an occupant of a vehicle to a plurality of virtual-meeting platforms, receive data indicating a plurality of virtual meetings at respective start times for the occupant from the virtual-meeting platforms, connect a user interface of the vehicle to a first one of the virtual meetings through a first virtual-meeting platform of the virtual meeting platforms at the respective start time, and connect the user interface to a second one of the virtual meetings through a second virtual-meeting platform of the virtual meeting platforms at the respective start time.