Vehicle Fingerprint Bookmark System for Interior Settings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Vehicle occupants face inefficiency in reconfiguring various interior settings upon entry, as different users must manually adjust features like seat position, temperature, and digital displays, which is time-consuming and inconvenient.

Innovation Solution

A fingerprint bookmark system that records and associates a user's fingerprint with their preferred interior settings, allowing quick retrieval or creation of bookmarks based on duration and firmness data, enabling efficient configuration of vehicle settings such as seat adjustment, temperature, radio, and GPS.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual adjustment of interior settings is used for each user, then customization capability is improved, but time consumption and operational efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically applying stored interior settings to the vehicle when a user's fingerprint is detected, eliminating the need for manual reconfiguration each time the user enters the vehicle

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by autonomously detecting the user through fingerprint scanning and automatically configuring the interior settings without requiring manual user intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If fingerprint scanning with duration threshold is implemented, then user identification accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser identification accuracyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses parameter changes by measuring the duration of fingerprint contact and comparing it against a threshold value to distinguish between different users or authentication states, adding a temporal dimension to the biometric identification

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10081246B2Vehicle fingerprint bookmark
Publication Date: 2018.09.25 THUNDER POWER NEW ENERGY VEHICLE DEV CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided in the present disclosure is a fingerprint bookmark system which may be implemented in a vehicle with one or more configurable interior settings. The fingerprint bookmark system may contain a scanner which may be configured to record a fingerprint from a vehicle occupant such that a fingerprint image showing the fingerprint and a duration data for the fingerprint image are recorded by the scanner. The system may contain one or more processors which may be configured to compare the duration data associated with the fingerprint image with a duration threshold. The one or more processors may be configured to initiate a search to obtain a bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image when the duration data is less than the duration threshold. The one or more processors may be further configured to create a new bookmark when the duration data exceeds the duration threshold.