An air vent assembly includes a cover member having an inlet for allowing a flow of air to enter the cover member. The cover member also has a vent extending from the inlet for allowing a flow of air to exit the cover member. The vent includes a first vent portion, and a second vent portion located adjacent to the first vent portion. The first vent portion has a first set of flow guiding vanes disposed therein. The second vent portion has a second set of flow guiding vanes disposed therein. Each of the vanes is spaced apart from one another and pivotally coupled to a pair of opposing walls of the cover member. The first and second sets of flow guiding vanes are independently moveable with respect to each other using an actuating mechanism for providing a variety of flow-guiding positions one of which includes a split flow-guiding position.

An awakening support system includes: a lyric presence determination unit configured to determine whether lyrics are contained in a target reproduction sound that is being output from an audio device in a mobile body; and an awakening effect control unit configured to, when it is determined by the lyric presence determination unit that lyrics are contained in the target reproduction sound, execute at least one selected from: first bass amplification processing that amplifies and outputs a prescribed bass part of the target reproduction sound from the audio device; cool air sending processing that sends out cool air from an air conditioning device provided in the mobile body; and illuminance increasing processing that increases illuminance of a lighting device provided in the mobile body.

A dialogue service device includes a dialogue system control unit configured to recognize an occupant's voice and control a dialogue system that interacts with the occupant in order to provide a service, and an activation unit that activates the dialogue system. The dialogue system includes a first dialogue system having a first voice recognition engine, and a second dialogue system having a second voice recognition engine. The activation unit has a first interface that outputs an activation command to the dialogue system via operation of a steering wheel switch of the vehicle, and a second interface that outputs the activation command to the dialogue system via a wake-up word uttered by the occupant. The first interface transmits the activation command to the first dialogue system, and the second interface transmits the activation command to either the first dialogue system or the second dialogue system.

A system and method for controlling an air conditioner to provide cooling or heating customized to each occupant of a vehicle by measuring body temperatures of each occupant. The system includes a body temperature measuring unit configured to measure a body temperature of each occupant, a personalized service determining unit configured to determine a personalized service including whether to drive a cooling device or a heating device for each occupant based on the body temperature of each occupant, and an air conditioner controlling unit configured to control the air conditioner discriminatively for each occupant based on a personalized service.

A vehicle HVAC noise control system includes an air handler, a blower motor, an audio event device and a controller. The air handler is connected to a passenger compartment. The blower motor is operably connected to the air handler to provide a plurality of airflow rates for air flowing into a passenger compartment. The audio event device produces an audio event to the passenger compartment. The controller is operatively connected to the blower motor and the audio event device. The controller controls operation of the blower motor initially at an operating airflow rate and subsequently switches to a noise reducing airflow rate in response to a signal from the audio event device indicating that the audio event device will subsequently produce the audio event.

The invention relates to electronic technologies in automobile, and in particular, to an apparatus and method for processing vehicle emergency conditions. The apparatus for processing vehicle emergency conditions according to an aspect of the invention comprises: a first sound sensor disposed inside the vehicle; and a processing unit coupled with the first sound sensor, which is configured to determine whether an individual inside the vehicle is in an emergency condition according to signals collected by the first sound sensor and an internal environmental state of the vehicle, and to generate a command or instruction signal for executing emergency processing operation when the individual inside the vehicle is in an emergency condition.

Systems and methods for adjusting one or more window of a vehicle cabin are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system for adjusting one or more window of a vehicle cabin includes at least one noise sensor, a plurality of windows, and a controller. The at least one noise sensor is configured to detect wind noise at one or more location of the vehicle cabin. The plurality of windows are each adjustable between a plurality of configurations to permit differing levels of air flow between the vehicle cabin and an atmosphere outside of the vehicle cabin. The controller is programmed to cause an adjustment of at least one window of the plurality of windows based on feedback from the at least one noise sensor regarding a detected level of wind noise.

A team-oriented heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system, for use in support of operations of a vehicle. The system includes instructions that cause a processor to perform operations including communicating, to a human user, via a vehicle-user interface, a request to participate regularly, actively, and collaboratively as a member of a collaborative HVAC team, to include the system, in an ongoing team relationship of cooperation regarding operating the team-oriented HVAC system over time. The operations further include providing, to the user, a commitment communication advising the user that the system will be dedicated to participating regularly, actively, and collaboratively as a team member. The operations also include receiving, from the user, an agreement communication to participate as a member of the collaborative HVAC team. And the operations include forming, responsive to receiving the agreement communication, the collaborative HVAC team including the user and team-oriented HVAC system.

A processing system deployed in a carrier transport vehicle may establish a wireless communication session with a mobile device of a user, assign a zone of the carrier transport vehicle to the user, the zone including a plurality of network-connected devices, obtain a user profile from the mobile device of the user, determine at least one biometric sensor accessible via the mobile device of the user, obtain biometric data of the user from the at least one biometric sensor accessible via the mobile device of the user, determine a condition of the user based upon the biometric data, identify at least one adjustment to at least one of the plurality of network-connected devices in response to the condition of the user that is determined and the user profile, and apply the at least one adjustment to the at least one of the plurality of network-connected devices.

A system, method and computer program product for managing the flow of air from a ventilation outlet. The method includes determining a position of a sound detected by at least a first microphone determining a ventilation outlet control data based on the position of the sound controlling the air flow of the at least first ventilation outlet based on the ventilation outlet control data for changing at least one of a direction of the air flow, a spread of the air flow and an intensity of the air flow from at least a first ventilation outlet.