Adaptive Warning Prompt Control for Vehicle Occupants

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle navigation systems lack personalized and adaptive warning prompts for occupants, failing to effectively adjust display and interaction based on individual user profiles and interaction histories, which can lead to suboptimal utilization of vehicle elements.

Innovation Solution

A warning prompt control module that associates occupants with user profiles based on sensor data and interaction histories, adjusting the display of prompts for vehicle elements in response to trigger events, thereby optimizing the presentation of warning information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If warning prompts are displayed to all occupants regardless of interaction history, then safety information is ensured to be communicated, but occupant annoyance and information overload increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety information communicationVSAvoidoccupant annoyance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different prompt display strategies to different occupants based on their individual interaction histories. First-time occupants receive comprehensive warning prompts, while recurring occupants receive reduced or no prompts for the same warnings, creating localized quality in information delivery tailored to each user's needs and experience level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The warning prompt system dynamically adjusts its behavior based on real-time detection of occupant interaction patterns. The control module continuously monitors whether an occupant has interacted with specific prompts before and modifies subsequent prompt display accordingly, making the system adaptive rather than static.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of information

If comprehensive warning prompts are displayed to all occupants, then safety information completeness is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety information completenessVSAvoidprompt control system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control module implements feedback by monitoring occupant interactions with warning prompts and using this information to adjust future prompt display. The system tracks whether occupants have previously encountered specific warnings and modifies subsequent information delivery based on this feedback, reducing redundancy while maintaining completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically tracking and remembering each occupant's interaction history without requiring manual input or configuration. The control module autonomously manages the complexity of tracking multiple occupants' preferences and interaction patterns, simplifying the user experience while maintaining system sophistication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If warning prompts require active occupant interaction before enabling vehicle elements, then occupant awareness is improved, but ease of operation decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoccupant awarenessVSAvoidvehicle element activation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by requiring full interaction acknowledgment only for first-time occupants or critical safety warnings, while applying reduced or no interaction requirements for recurring occupants or less critical information. This partial application of the interaction requirement maintains safety awareness for those who need it while easing operation for experienced users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10446018B1Controlled display of warning information
Publication Date: 2019.10.15 APPLE INC
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AI summary

Some embodiments provide a warning prompt control module which adjustably controls the display of warning prompts for vehicle elements in a vehicle, based on a determined profile with which the occupant is associated. An occupant detected in the vehicle interior can be associated with a profile based on a sensor data representation of the occupant correlating with a sensor data representation included in the profile, accessing a profile from a device supporting the occupant, etc. A profile can include interaction history data which indicate historical interactions with warning prompts for a vehicle element. Displaying a warning prompt for a vehicle element can be adjustably controlled based on the interaction history data, included in a profile, which is associated with the vehicle element.