Patents by Inventor Anthony Mark Phillips

Anthony Mark Phillips has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10713501
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an interface that displays an image of objects in a vicinity of the vehicle, and a controller that alters a depth of field of the image based on a focal point associated with a direction of driver eye gaze relative to the image to alter blurriness of the image away from the focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony Mark Phillips
  • Patent number: 10518765
    Abstract: A stability control system for a vehicle that has an electric traction motor that provides torque to an axle through a differential. The traction motor responds to an instability event that is sensed by sensors on the vehicle by initially reducing the torque provided to the traction wheels to regain steering control. The traction motor then pulses increased torque in sequence with the application of braking force to provide enhanced direct yaw moment control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wei Liang, Hai Yu, Ryan Abraham McGee, Ming Lang Kuang, Anthony Mark Phillips
  • Publication number: 20190389385
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for overlay interfaces for rearview mirror displays. An example vehicle includes a front-view camera to capture a front-view image, a rearview camera to capture a rearview image, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine lane line projections and vehicle-width projections based on the front-view image and generate an overlay interface by overlaying the lane line projections and the vehicle-width projections onto the rearview image. The example vehicle also includes a rearview mirror display to present the overlay interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Diedrich, Anthony Mark Phillips, Brian Bennie
  • Publication number: 20190351872
    Abstract: A prompt is presented on a display of a wearable device upon detecting an event indicating a user leaving a vehicle. An input responding to the prompt is received. A vehicle door lock is instructed to move to a locked position upon receipt of the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Anthony Mark PHILLIPS, Yifan CHEN, John Robert VAN WIEMEERSCH
  • Patent number: 10485037
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to determine available vehicular connectivity options in response to a data transfer request. The processor is further configured to determine a preferred option from the available connectivity options based on previously stored connectivity policies, if multiple connectivity options exist which can be utilized to fulfill the request, and utilize the preferred option to fulfill the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Basavaraj Tonshal, Anthony Mark Phillips, Ylldes Zeneli, Florian Frischmuth, Julius Marchwicki, Ritesh Pandya, Charles J. King, II, Yifan Chen, Panduranga Kondoju
  • Patent number: 9726088
    Abstract: The disclosed system and method changes a traction torque request in a vehicle powertrain with a driver-controlled vehicle accelerator pedal. A desired transfer function parameter in a powertrain control module is chosen by the driver to obtain a desired functional relationship between a traction torque request or a power plant torque request and accelerator pedal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Lang Kuang, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Anthony Mark Phillips, Deepa Ramaswamy, Brandon R. Masterson
  • Patent number: 9716294
    Abstract: A battery controller with monitoring logic for a model-based battery control of a battery performs battery current characterizing, parameter and state variable abnormality detection, and bound checking of error signals between measured and predicted output variables to generate an output. Switching between closed-loop operation (i.e., the model-based battery control) and open-loop operation (i.e., a traditional battery control) is done based on the output of the monitoring logic such that closed-loop stability and performance are reasonably guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghua Li, Richard Dyche Anderson, Anthony Mark Phillips, Xu Wang
  • Publication number: 20170156167
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to determine available vehicular connectivity options in response to a data transfer request. The processor is further configured to determine a preferred option from the available connectivity options based on previously stored connectivity policies, if multiple connectivity options exist which can be utilized to fulfill the request, and utilize the preferred option to fulfill the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Basavaraj TONSHAL, Anthony Mark PHILLIPS, Ylldes ZENELI, Florian FRISCHMUTH, Julius MARCHWICKI, Ritesh PANDYA, Charles J. KING, II, Yifan CHEN, Panduranga KONDOJU
  • Patent number: 9663111
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a powertrain having an electric machine and an engine. The vehicle also includes a controller programmed to operate the powertrain according to a predicted vehicle speed profile for a predetermined route segmented according to a group of driving zone types, wherein each driving zone type is associated with a different characteristic speed profile shape and vehicle location. The controller is further programmed to update the predicted segment speed profile in response to deviation between the predicted speed profile and a measured speed profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, The Regents Of The University Of Michigan
    Inventors: Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Ryan Abraham McGee, Anthony Mark Phillips, Ming Lang Kuang, Wenduo Wang, Jungme Park, Yi Murphey, Chen Fang
  • Publication number: 20170046578
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an interface that displays an image of objects in a vicinity of the vehicle, and a controller that alters a depth of field of the image based on a focal point associated with a direction of driver eye gaze relative to the image to alter blurriness of the image away from the focal point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventor: Anthony Mark Phillips
  • Patent number: 9545915
    Abstract: A method includes utilizing navigation data from a navigation system to segment a route to be travelled by a travelling vehicle into segments each having a road grade different than neighboring segments. The method further includes discharging a battery of the vehicle as the vehicle travels along an initial segment of the route according to a state-of-charge (SoC) set-point based on the road grade of the initial segment and a variable representative of the road grades of at least two other segments of the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Anthony Mark Phillips, Georgia-Evangelia Katsargyri, Ming Lang Kuang, Ilya Vladimir Kolmanovsky, John Ottavio Michelini, Munther Abdullah Dahleh, Michael David Rinehart
  • Patent number: 9469213
    Abstract: A vehicle engine, electric machine and battery are operated, in certain examples, such that a predetermined route is segmented based on varying criteria to determine target battery state of charge at the segment endpoints along the route. The endpoints are a superposition of endpoints defined by predicted powertrain operating mode transitions, predicted vehicle acceleration transitions or predicted road grade transitions along the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang, Anthony Mark Phillips
  • Publication number: 20150344036
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a powertrain having an electric machine and an engine. The vehicle also includes a controller programmed to operate the powertrain according to a predicted vehicle speed profile for a predetermined route segmented according to a group of driving zone types, wherein each driving zone type is associated with a different characteristic speed profile shape and vehicle location. The controller is further programmed to update the predicted speed profile for a those segments showing deviation in response to deviation between the predicted speed profile and a measured speed profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Johannes Geir KRISTINSSON, Ryan Abraham MCGEE, Anthony Mark PHILLIPS, Ming Lang KUANG, Wenduo WANG, Jungme PARK, Yi MURPHEY, Chen FANG
  • Patent number: 9193351
    Abstract: An engine, electric machine and battery of a vehicle are operated, in certain examples, such that a state of charge of the battery is generally maintained while the real-time fuel consumption is estimated and minimized by the use of route segmentation and a predictive average power calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang, Anthony Mark Phillips
  • Publication number: 20150274156
    Abstract: A method for controlling a powertrain in a hybrid vehicle includes operating in an electric only mode in response to a detected vehicle location being within a designated geographic area. The designated geographic region is designated in response to at least one user selection that was input during a previous drive cycle. The designated geographic region also includes the vehicle location where the user selection was input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Mark PHILLIPS, Johannes Geir KRISTINSSON, Jeffrey Lee HENTSCHEL
  • Publication number: 20150127199
    Abstract: A vehicle engine, electric machine and battery are operated, in certain examples, such that a predetermined route is segmented based on varying criteria to determine target battery state of charge at the segment endpoints along the route. The endpoints are a superposition of endpoints defined by predicted powertrain operating mode transitions, predicted vehicle acceleration transitions or predicted road grade transitions along the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan ZHAO, Ming Lang KUANG, Anthony Mark PHILLIPS
  • Publication number: 20150046000
    Abstract: An engine, electric machine and battery of a vehicle are operated, in certain examples, such that a state of charge of the battery is generally maintained while the real-time fuel consumption is estimated and minimized by the use of route segmentation and a predictive average power calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Ming Lang Kuang, Anthony Mark Phillips
  • Publication number: 20140172292
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive vehicle location and context information. The processor is also configured to execute a prediction algorithm to predict one or more next-destinations based on the location and context information compared to observed driver behavior stored in a database and deliver the one or more next-destinations to a vehicle computing system. The processor is further configured to receive next-destination input and utilizing the next-destination input as a new vehicle location and estimating new context information, repeat execution of the prediction algorithm, delivery of the predicted next-destinations, and receipt of the next-destination input, until input indicating completed journey assembly is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Abraham McGee, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Fling Tseng, Anthony Mark Phillips
  • Patent number: 8706416
    Abstract: A method for determining a route for a vehicle includes receiving input indicative of a driver's dynamic control of the vehicle, determining the driver's driving style based on the input, and selecting values of parameters representing the driver's anticipated dynamic control of the vehicle based on the driving style. The method also includes identifying a plurality of candidate routes between an origin and destination, partitioning each of the candidate routes into a set of predefined route patterns, and determining an energy usage associated with each of the candidate routes based on the selected values and the set of predefined route patterns defining the candidate route. The method further includes identifying the candidate route having the minimum energy usage and providing output describing the route having the minimum energy usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qing Wang, Anthony Mark Phillips, Ryan Abraham McGee, Xiaoyong Wang
  • Publication number: 20140095003
    Abstract: A method includes utilizing navigation data from a navigation system to segment a route to be travelled by a travelling vehicle into segments each having a road grade different than neighboring segments. The method further includes discharging a battery of the vehicle as the vehicle travels along an initial segment of the route according to a state-of-charge (SoC) set-point based on the road grade of the initial segment and a variable representative of the road grades of at least two other segments of the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Mark Phillips, Georgia-Evangelia Katsargyri, Ming Lang Kuang, Ilya Vladimir Kolmanovsky, John Ottavio Michelini, Munther Abdullah Dahleh, Michael David Rinehart