Patents by Inventor Reates Curry

Reates Curry 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: 11610342
    Abstract: A method and system for providing integrated augmented reality (AR) images and content to multiple vehicle occupants having AR devices and methods of generating user-based AR expressions including content control of user generated content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jian Wan, Prayat Hegde, Reates Curry, Mike Bloomer, Harald C. Martinez, Brett Stottlemyer, Jeffrey Allen Greenberg, Kwaku Prakah-Asante
  • Publication number: 20220084256
    Abstract: A method and system for providing integrated augmented reality (AR) images and content to multiple vehicle occupants having AR devices and methods of generating user-based AR expressions including content control of user generated content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jian Wan, Prayat Hegde, Reates Curry, Mike Bloomer, Harald C. Martinez, Brett Stottlemyer, Jeffrey Allen Greenberg, Kwaku Prakah-Asante
  • Patent number: 10583840
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to monitor an activity level of a driver are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a processor, eye movement data from a sensor monitoring eye movements of a driver of a vehicle. The method includes calculating, via the processor, an eye movement activity index using a substantially real-time recursive analysis of the eye movement data. The method further includes calculating, via the processor, a low activity indicator for the driver based on the eye movement activity index. The method also includes executing a task based on the low activity indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: FORD MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Gary Steven Strumolo, Reates Curry, Mike Blommer, Radhakrishnan Swaminathan
  • Publication number: 20190263419
    Abstract: Vehicles can be equipped to operate in both autonomous and occupant piloted mode. Vehicles can monitor physiological signals and determine when an occupant is in a transition state thereby predicting an inattentive, sleepy state. When a transition state is determined the occupant can be alerted and the vehicle can be piloted autonomously for some period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Kwaku O. PRAKAH-ASANTE, Gary Steven STRUMOLO, Reates CURRY
  • Publication number: 20190232966
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to monitor an activity level of a driver are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a processor, eye movement data from a sensor monitoring eye movements of a driver of a vehicle. The method includes calculating, via the processor, an eye movement activity index using a substantially real-time recursive analysis of the eye movement data. The method further includes calculating, via the processor, a low activity indicator for the driver based on the eye movement activity index. The method also includes executing a task based on the low activity indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kwaku O. PRAKAH-ASANTE, Gary Steven STRUMOLO, Reates CURRY, Mike BLOMMER, Radhakrishnan SWAMINATHAN
  • Patent number: 9630555
    Abstract: A system for alerting drivers when a vehicle is or may be likely to be traveling in excess of a speed limit is provided. The system evaluates vehicle speed and provides custom warnings for various speed-related occurrences including a prediction that based on an instantaneous speed and acceleration the vehicle is about to exceed the speed limit. Haptic feedback from a wearable device such as a smart watch may preferably provide distinct intensities of warning between actual and predicted excursions over a limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Radhakrishnan Swaminathan, Michael A. Blommer, Reates Curry
  • Patent number: 9213522
    Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one processor that receives an in-coming communication for a driver, routes the in-coming communication to a mail system in response to a driver workload exceeding a predefined value, and after a predetermined period of time following routing the in-coming communication to the mail system, generates a notification for the driver indicating that a communication was received in response to the driver workload being less than the predefined value at an expiration of the predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Reates Curry, Louis Tijerina, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Yifan Chen, Jeffrey Allen Greenberg, Gary Steven Strumolo
  • Publication number: 20140081519
    Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one processor that receives an in-coming communication for a driver, routes the in-coming communication to a mail system in response to a driver workload exceeding a predefined value, and after a predetermined period of time following routing the in-coming communication to the mail system, generates a notification for the driver indicating that a communication was received in response to the driver workload being less than the predefined value at an expiration of the predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Reates Curry, Louis Tijerina, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Yifan Chen, Jeffrey Allen Greenberg, Gary Steven Strumolo