VOXX International Corporation
System and method for locating a portable device in different zones relative to a vehicle based upon training data

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Abstract:

A vehicle system may include a wireless transmitters carried by a vehicle at spaced apart locations and configured to transmit wireless signals, and a portable device moveable relative to the vehicle and configured to receive the wireless signals from the wireless transmitters. A controller may be carried by the vehicle and configured to wirelessly communicate with the portable device, determine a predicted zone the portable device is located in from among a plurality of zones relative to the vehicle based upon the received wireless signals and training data, with the zones having respective vehicle functions associated therewith, and enable the respective vehicle function associated with the predicted zone.

Status:
Grant
Type:

Utility

Filling date:

9 Dec 2019

Issue date:

20 Apr 2021