Patent ID: 8140344

Claim:
A vehicular user hospitality system comprising: a plurality of sensors mounted to a vehicle, each said sensor being configured to sense vehicle user positions, motions and/or conditions respectively associated with a vehicle user's use of said vehicle; a plurality of hospitality operation output devices mounted to said vehicle, each said output device being configured to provide a user hospitality-related output, when operated, which assists the user of a vehicle in a respectively predetermined manner; at least one programmed computer mounted to said vehicle and connected to receive inputs from said sensors and to operate said devices, said at least one computer having at least one central control unit (CPU) configured to execute computer program code stored in at least one non-transitory computer readable memory device coupled thereto including: (a) user biological information obtaining code configured to obtain from said sensors user biological information characterizing at least one of the user's (i) character, (ii) mental condition and (iii) physical condition; (b) scene determination code configured to identify a predetermined user-vehicle related scenario based on sensor inputs; and (c) hospitality determination code configured to operate a subset of said output devices corresponding to one of plural themes of hospitality for the user based on an identified scenario and said obtained user biological information.