Patent ID: 11932200
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  E | IPC B  E  G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle comprising:
a powered door having an actuator, wherein the powered door is movable between open and closed positions;
a transceiver configured to communicate with one or more mobile devices;
an imaging device oriented to capture images in a region proximate to the powered door; and
a controller processing the captured images and controlling the actuator, wherein the controller is configured to activate the actuator to move the powered door to the open position when a mobile device is detected proximate the vehicle and a user is detected in the captured images located in a door detection zone, the controller is configured to activate the actuator to move the powered door to the open position when the controller detects a face of the user in the captured images using facial recognition and recognizes the user as an authorized user located in the door detection zone, and the controller is configured to activate the actuator to move the door to the open position when the controller detects a gait of the user and identifies the gait is indicative of the authorized user located in the door detection zone, wherein the controller determines an acceleration based gait of the user by processing an acceleration signal generated by an acceleration signal in the mobile device, wherein the controller compares the acceleration based gait determined with the mobile device with an image based gait determined from the captured images to determine if the user is the authorized user.