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20110224843 | VEHICLE CONNECTIVITY SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS - A method of remotely starting a vehicle using a remote device is provided. The method includes: receiving a first temperature associated with the vehicle; evaluating the first temperature at the remote device; and initiating the starting of the vehicle by generating a signal to the vehicle based on the start request and the first temperature. | 09-15-2011 |
20110224854 | CARBON DIOXIDE FEEDBACK FOR AUTOMOBILE - A carbon dioxide feedback system and a method of providing carbon dioxide feedback in a computer system is provided. The method includes computing an amount of carbon dioxide generation avoided by a vehicle at a processor, calculating a number of equivalent trees based on the computation, and displaying the number of equivalent trees on a display device. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225260 | Vehicle Connectivity Systems, Methods and Applications - A vehicle communication method is provided. The method includes receiving a first wireless communication that is transmitted from a remote device; and managing a transmission of the first wireless communication over a vehicle network using a configurable message list. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225279 | VEHICLE CONNECTIVITY SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS - A connectivity device is provided. The connectivity device includes at least one network transceiver that communicates with a vehicle network. At least one wireless communication module communicates with a remote device. A message manager module manages communications between the at least one network transceiver and the at least one wireless communication module. | 09-15-2011 |
20120115446 | Remote Application of Vehicle Component Settings - Remote application of vehicle control settings includes detecting a vehicle in proximity of the mobile communication device, authenticating the vehicle via a secured pairing between an identifier of the vehicle and an identifier of the mobile communication device, retrieving driver preference settings assigned to the identifier of the vehicle and the identifier of the mobile communication device, and transmitting the driver preference settings to the vehicle. | 05-10-2012 |
20130024047 | METHOD TO MAP GAZE POSITION TO INFORMATION DISPLAY IN VEHICLE - A method of controlling a vehicle system of a vehicle is provided. The method includes: receiving image data that is captured from an occupant of the vehicle; determining a focus of the occupant of the vehicle based on the image data; and generating a user command to control the vehicle system based on the focus of the occupant. | 01-24-2013 |
20130321628 | VEHICLE COLLISION WARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A vehicle collision warning system and method that alerts a driver of an impending collision by displaying enhanced video of an upcoming road segment, where the enhanced video includes an in-path object that is highlighted so that it stands apart. In one exemplary embodiment, the system and method receive video of an upcoming road segment from a forward-looking vision system, obtain certain collision data for an in-path object, and then use the video and the collision data to provide enhanced video to a visual display that is seen by the driver. The enhanced video may include an in-path object that is highlighted according to the collision data (e.g., highlighted with a color-coded scheme where the in-path object changes color based on time-to-collision data) so that it stands apart from the rest of the upcoming road segment. | 12-05-2013 |
20140070933 | VEHICLE USER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PERFORMING A VEHICLE COMMAND - A vehicle user control system includes an interactive pad providing tactile feedback to a user and disposed on an exterior portion of a steering wheel. Also included is a controller in operable communication with the interactive pad and at least one vehicle component, wherein the controller is configured to perform at least one vehicle command associated with the at least one vehicle component. | 03-13-2014 |
20140070934 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING DRIVER OBJECT DETECTION - Methods and systems are provided for detecting whether a driver of a vehicle detected an object outside of the vehicle. In one embodiment, the method includes: receiving external sensor data that indicates a scene outside of the vehicle; receiving internal sensor data that indicates an image of the driver; determining whether the driver detected the object based on the external sensor data and the internal sensor data; and selectively generating a control signal based on whether the driver detected the object. | 03-13-2014 |
20140129054 | MOBILE DEVICE-ACTIVATED VEHICLE FUNCTIONS - Mobile device-activated vehicle functions are implemented by authenticating a vehicle with a device via wireless signals transmitted between a low frequency antenna of the device and a low frequency antenna of the vehicle when the vehicle is in communicative range of the device. The mobile device-activated vehicle functions are further implemented by receiving, via computer processor embedded in the device, a selection from one of a plurality of input components embedded in the device, the selection associated with a vehicle function, and transmitting a request to implement the vehicle function via the low frequency antenna coupled to the computer processor and the low frequency antenna of the vehicle. | 05-08-2014 |
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20090147991 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTING AND CHARACTERIZING MOTION - A method for motion detection/characterization is provided including the steps of (a) capturing a series of time lapsed images of the target, wherein the target moves between at least two of such images; (b) generating a motion distribution in relation to the target across the series of images; and (c) identifying motion of the target based on analysis of the motion distribution. In a further aspect of motion detection/characterization in accordance with the invention, motion is detected/characterized based on calculation of a color distribution for a series of images. A system and computer program for presenting an augmented environment based on the motion detection/characterization is also provided. An interface means based on the motion detection/characterization is also provided. | 06-11-2009 |
20100160833 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SEGMENTATION AND TIME DURATION ANALYSIS OF DUAL-AXIS SWALLOWING ACCELEROMETRY SIGNALS - The proposed invention is a method and system for the segmentation of dual-axis accelerometry signals for the purposed of identifying problematic swallowing events. The method and system employ a sensor, a data collection means including an algorithm for the analysis of the data. The proposed invention considers the stochastic properties of swallowing signals in both directions, A-P and S-I to extract events associated with swallowing. A segmentation algorithm may be applied to the signals to establish the time duration of swallows and swallows may be classified with respect to gender, body mass index, age or types of swallow. | 06-24-2010 |
20100260385 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTING AND CHARACTERIZING MOTION - A method for motion detection/characterization is provided including the steps of (a) capturing a series of time lapsed images of the ROI, wherein the ROI moves between at least two of such images; (b) generating a motion distribution in relation to the ROI across the series of images; and (c) identifying motion of the ROI based on analysis of the motion distribution. In a further aspect of motion detection/characterization in accordance with the invention, motion is detected/characterized based on calculation of a color distribution for a series of images. A system and computer program for presenting an augmented environment based on the motion detection/characterization is also provided. An interface means based on the motion detection/characterization is also provided. | 10-14-2010 |
20120271872 | PROCEDURE FOR DENOISING DUAL-AXIS SWALLOWING ACCELEROMETRY SIGNALS - Dual-axis swallowing accelerometry is an emerging tool for the assessment of dysphagia (swallowing difficulties). These signals however can be very noisy as a result of physiological and motion artifacts. A novel scheme for denoising those signals is proposed, i.e. a computationally efficient search for the optimal denoising threshold within a reduced wavelet subspace. To determine a viable subspace, the algorithm relies on the minimum value of the estimated upper bound for the reconstruction error. A numerical analysis of the proposed scheme using synthetic test signals demonstrated that the proposed scheme is computationally more efficient than minimum noiseless description length (MNDL) based de-noising. It also yields smaller reconstruction errors (i.e., higher signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio) than MNDL, SURE and Donoho denoising methods. When applied to dual-axis swallowing accelerometry signals, the proposed scheme improves the SNR values for dry, wet and wet chin tuck swallows. These results are important to the further development of medical devices based on dual-axis swallowing accelerometry signals. | 10-25-2012 |
20120316470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SEGMENTATION AND TIME DURATION ANALYSIS OF DUAL AXIS ACCELEROMETRY SIGNALS - The proposed invention is a method and system for the segmentation of dual-axis accelerometry signals for the purpose of identifying problematic swallowing events. The method and system employ a sensor, a data collection means including an algorithm for analysis of the data. The proposed invention considers the stochastic properties of swallowing signals in both directions, A-P and S-I to extract events associated with swallowing. A segmentation algorithm may be applied to the signals to establish the time duration of swallows and swallows may be classified with respect to gender, body mass index, age or types of swallow. | 12-13-2012 |