Implicit Gesture Learning System for Vehicle Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current speech and gesture systems in vehicles require significant cognitive load, are cumbersome, and slow to react, often failing to efficiently recognize user intentions, leading to increased distraction and safety risks while operating a vehicle.

Innovation Solution

An implicit gesture learning system that monitors and learns user behavioral patterns, associating gestures with actions through multiple sensors, reducing cognitive load by allowing intuitive and adaptive control without explicit commands.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If modern speech and gesture systems are implemented in vehicles, then user control capability is improved, but cognitive load increases and safety decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser control capabilityVSAvoidsafety
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-learning by automatically monitoring user gestures and inferring intentions without requiring explicit training or programming. The system adapts to individual user behaviors autonomously, reducing the cognitive burden on users while maintaining safety through continuous contextual analysis of driving conditions and gesture patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system preemptively identifies user intentions by analyzing gestures before the user completes the full action sequence. By detecting partial gestures and predicting intended commands in advance, the system responds faster and reduces the cognitive steps users must complete, thereby improving both ease of operation and safety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If explicit gesture commands are required, then system control precision is improved, but cognitive load and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem control precisionVSAvoidcognitive complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces explicit mechanical gesture commands with implicit intention detection through machine learning algorithms. Instead of requiring users to perform predetermined standardized gestures, the system analyzes natural gesture patterns and infers user intent, thereby maintaining control precision while eliminating the need for users to memorize complex gesture vocabularies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the parameters of gesture recognition based on contextual factors such as driving conditions, user behavior patterns, and system state. By changing the sensitivity and interpretation parameters in real-time, the system maintains precise control while adapting to varying user needs and environmental conditions, reducing cognitive complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Speed

If traditional gesture recognition systems are used, then system responsiveness is improved, but user distraction and cognitive load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem responsivenessVSAvoiduser distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors and learns user gesture patterns in the background without requiring active user engagement or attention. This self-learning capability allows the system to maintain high responsiveness while operating autonomously, reducing the cognitive load and distraction associated with traditional gesture recognition systems that require explicit user initiation and confirmation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3126934B1Systems and methods for the detection of implicit gestures
Publication Date: 2019.12.11 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

Some embodiments provide systems and methods for enabling a learning implicit gesture control system for use by an occupant of a vehicle. The method includes identifying features received from a plurality of sensors and comparing the features to antecedent knowledge stored in memory. A system output action that corresponds to the features can then be provided in the form of a first vehicle output. The method further includes detecting a second vehicle output from the plurality of sensors and updating the antecedent knowledge to associate the system output action with the second vehicle output.