Patent ID: 9256212
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: B60R,G01D,G01F,G01K,G05B,G08B,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A method of locking and unlocking a door of a vehicle, said method comprising the steps of: positioning magnetic field sensors at a plurality of locations within the vehicle; localizing a plurality of doors of the vehicle using the magnetic field sensors; transmitting a long wave magnetic signal from a keyfob to unlock a desired one of the doors, the signal including an identifier corresponding to a respective vehicle, the keyfob including an actuatable control, the long wave magnetic signal being transmitted in response to the actuatable control being actuated by a user; receiving the long wave magnetic signal at the magnetic field sensors in the vehicle; recognizing the identifier as corresponding to the respective vehicle, the recognizing being performed within the respective vehicle; and in response to the recognizing, using a localization technique to identify the desired door and then automatically changing the desired door of the respective vehicle from a locked state to an unlocked state, wherein the long wave magnetic signal is transmitted from the keyfob by modulating the long wave magnetic signal with a carrier frequency of approximately between 100 kHz and 500 kHz.