US 11,842,623 B1
Contextual calibration of connected security device
James Nicholas Murray, Chelmsford (GB); Tarik Safir, Derbyshire (GB); Sam Harris, Billericay (GB); Hasan Akoglu, Brentwood (GB); Julian Aaron Abentheuer, London (GB); and Gabriel Mitchell, London (GB)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on May 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/746,053.
Int. Cl. G08B 29/24 (2006.01); G08B 29/18 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 29/24 (2013.01) [G08B 29/185 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
determine that a vehicle alarm system has been armed;
responsive to the arming, determine a local context applicable to the vehicle alarm system;
obtain an alarm system configuration mapping, predefined for a plurality of contexts, applicable in light of the local context; and
change sensitivity of one or more sensors associated with the alarm system based on the configuration mapping, wherein the local context includes a plurality of factors and at least two of the factors have conflicting sensitivity changes associated therewith, and, in response to the conflicting sensitivity changes, the one or more processors are configured to change the sensitivity based on the more-sensitive change to increase threat detection based on the change.