Automated Vehicle Environment Configuration via User Proximity Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle configurations require manual adjustments by users to set preferences, which can be time-consuming and inconsistent across different vehicles, due to varying capabilities and dimensions, affecting user comfort and driving experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that identifies users and automatically applies standardized pre-sets, configured to achieve consistent environmental conditions across multiple vehicle types, using a processor to interact with vehicle systems and store settings, allowing for seamless adaptation to different vehicle capabilities and dimensions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual adjustments are required for each user preference, then the system can accommodate specific user needs, but the configuration process becomes time-consuming and inconsistent across different vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The system stores multiple pre-configured sets of user preferences (pre-sets) that have been predetermined and organized for different user needs. When a user approaches the vehicle, the system automatically retrieves and applies the appropriate pre-set configuration, eliminating the need for manual adjustment of each parameter and significantly reducing configuration time while maintaining consistency across different vehicles.
2Stability of the object's composition
If standardized pre-sets are applied across multiple vehicle types, then consistency in environmental conditions is achieved, but the system must account for varying vehicle capabilities and dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the pre-set configurations into multiple categories or groups corresponding to different vehicle types, capabilities, and dimensions. Each pre-set contains localized adjustments tailored to specific vehicle characteristics (such as interior space, available features, and performance capabilities) while maintaining overall environmental condition consistency. This allows the system to apply standardized configurations that adapt to local vehicle-specific qualities.
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AI summary
Some embodiments provide methods of configuring an automobile, comprising: identifying, through a controller of a first automobile, a first user of potential users, wherein the identifying comprises identifying that the first user is proximate the first automobile; accessing a first plurality of pre-sets that correspond to the first user, wherein each of the first plurality of pre-sets comprises a standardized setting configured to be implemented in multiple different types of automobiles that have different available capabilities, wherein the first plurality of pre-sets are configured to achieve substantially the same environmental conditions in each of the different types of automobiles regardless of differences; and automatically applying all of the first plurality of pre-sets without any user interaction such that each of the first plurality of pre-sets is applied at one time establishing the environment of the first automobile consistent with the first plurality of pre-sets.