Vehicle driver locator
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1. A vehicle comprising:
- a driver door, nodes, sensors, puddle lights, and processor(s) configured to;
produce, via the nodes, signal patterns to link with a mobile device of a user;
define an area within the signal patterns and corresponding to the driver door;
responsive to detecting, via the nodes, the mobile device, determine, via the sensors, a trajectory of the user; and
responsive to the trajectory intersecting the area, activate the puddle lights, wherein the trajectory includes estimated future positions of the user determined based on past positions of the user.
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Abstract
A vehicle may include: a motor, nodes, sensors, puddle lights, and processor(s) configured to: command the nodes to produce high power signal patterns to link with a mobile device; command at least some of the nodes to produce low power signal patterns to link with the mobile device based detecting the high power link; activate at least some of the puddle lights based on the low power link. The vehicle may activate at least some of the puddle lights based on the low power link by running processing software on measurements captured by the nodes based on the low power link.
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1. A vehicle comprising:
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a driver door, nodes, sensors, puddle lights, and processor(s) configured to; produce, via the nodes, signal patterns to link with a mobile device of a user; define an area within the signal patterns and corresponding to the driver door; responsive to detecting, via the nodes, the mobile device, determine, via the sensors, a trajectory of the user; and responsive to the trajectory intersecting the area, activate the puddle lights, wherein the trajectory includes estimated future positions of the user determined based on past positions of the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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11. A method of controlling a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a driver door, nodes, sensors, puddle lights, and processor(s), the method comprising, via the processor(s):
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producing, via the nodes, signal patterns to link with a mobile device of a user; defining an area within the signal patterns and corresponding to the driver door; responsive to detecting, via the nodes, the mobile device, determining, via the sensors, a trajectory of the user; and responsive to the trajectory intersecting the area, activating the puddle lights, wherein the trajectory includes estimated future positions of the user determined based on past positions of the user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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