SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING OCCUPANT LOCATION USING CONNECTED DEVICES
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Abstract
A vehicle computing system enabling one or more processors to establish a communication connection with at least one of a plurality of handheld computing devices within a vehicle while enabling and determining infotainment control based on the location of the handheld device in the vehicle. The system may determine if the at least one of a plurality of handheld computing devices is a driver or non-driver handheld computing device based on a detected location of the communication connection. The system may determine that the at least one of a plurality of handheld computing devices is a non-driver handheld computing device based on the detected location, therefore enabling infotainment control from the non-driver handheld device. The system may determine that the at least one of a plurality of handheld computing devices is a driver handheld computing device based on the detected location, therefore limiting infotainment control from the driver handheld device.
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40 Claims
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21. A vehicle computing system comprising:
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a controller programed to, in response to a wireless device communicating with the controller, recognize the wireless device as a driver or non-driver device using a seat sensor and one or more seat connections, and in response to the wireless device being recognized as the driver device, enable a lock-out restriction for control of vehicle infotainment settings from the wireless device. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method comprising:
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in response to a request for remote infotainment control from a wireless device via an established communication link with a vehicle processor, detecting, via the vehicle processor, a location of the wireless device using a seat sensor and a seat connection; and enabling the remote infotainment control at the wireless device if the detected location is a non-driver location based on signal measurements from the seat sensor and seat transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A computer-program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored instructions for programming a processor, comprising instructions for:
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establishing a communication connection with a plurality of computing devices within a vehicle; determining if at least one of the plurality of computing devices is a driver or non-driver device based on a seat connection; and enabling a reduced amount of infotainment control for the driver device detected via the seat connection. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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