Coordinated Light and Scent Control for Personalized Vehicle Cabins
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing light and scent control systems in bounded spaces, such as vehicles, are not coordinated to provide a unified and personalized sensory experience for users, failing to account for individual user preferences and characteristics.
Innovation Solution
A sensory control module that integrates light and scent emissions, using user data to generate personalized light and scent data based on empirical mappings, and adjusts emissions based on user rankings and preferences to optimize the sensory experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If light control systems and scent control systems are used separately, then each system can control its respective emission, but they are not coordinated to control a user sensory experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate light control and scent control systems into a unified sensory control system that coordinates both emissions based on user data and empirical mappings. The controller integrates multiple emission sources (lights and scent dispensers) into a single coordinated system that adjusts both modalities together to create unified sensory experiences tailored to individual user preferences and characteristics.
2Adaptability or versatility
If user data is collected and processed to generate personalized light and scent data, then personalized sensory experience is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and processing user data in advance to create user profiles stored in a database. Empirical mappings between user characteristics and preferred light/scent combinations are pre-computed and stored. When a user enters the vehicle, the system quickly retrieves pre-processed user data and empirical mappings to generate personalized emissions without requiring complex real-time computation, thus reducing operational complexity while maintaining personalization capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple user profiles are supported with individual preferences, then user-specific sensory control is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal controller that can serve multiple users by retrieving and processing different user profiles from a centralized database. The same hardware infrastructure (lights, scent dispensers, controller) performs multiple functions by adapting to different users based on retrieved preference data. This allows the system to support unlimited user profiles without proportionally increasing physical system complexity, as the controller dynamically configures emissions based on which user profile is active.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques are provided for user sensory control in a bounded space. In one embodiment, the techniques involve receiving user data, generating light data based on the user data and sensory data, generating scent data based on the user data and the sensory data, and controlling a light emission or a scent emission based on a combination of the light data and the scent data.