US 11,787,260 B2
Climate control
Derek A. Faust, Mount Pleasant, SC (US); Emery A. Sanford, San Francisco, CA (US); and James Foster, London (GB)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/119,940.
Application 17/119,940 is a continuation of application No. 15/505,603, granted, now 10,875,380, previously published as PCT/US2015/046153, filed on Aug. 20, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/040,380, filed on Aug. 21, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0094380 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00064 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00742 (2013.01); B60H 1/00842 (2013.01); B60H 1/00871 (2013.01); B60H 1/00892 (2013.01); B60H 1/00985 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00185 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed on or across the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a vehicle climate control system configured to:
determine, based at least in part upon one or more sets of data received from one or more data sources and independently of user-initiated commands, that at least one user which is presently external to a vehicle is anticipated to occupy at least one cabin region of an interior cabin of the vehicle within a particular period of time;
determine, based at least in part upon the one or more sets of data received from the one or more data sources and independently of user-initiated commands, a particular set of cabin region climate conditions configured to increase a perceived comfort of the at least one user when the at least one user occupies the at least one cabin region, wherein the perceived comfort level of the at least one user is determined based on data specific to the at least one user included in the one or more sets of data received from the one or more data sources, wherein the data specific to the at least one user comprises data in addition to data indicating a proximity of the at least one user to the vehicle; and
generate a set of output commands which causes one or more vehicle components to change a set of climate conditions associated with the at least one cabin region to approximate the determined particular set of cabin region climate conditions within at least one set of margins, independently of user-initiated commands.