Vehicle Automated Assistant Integration for Cross-Device Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in accessing and utilizing automated assistants within vehicles due to limited compatibility and inefficient resource utilization between mobile and vehicle computing devices, leading to hindered functionality and safety concerns.
Innovation Solution
A system that enables interactions between a vehicle computing device and a mobile computing device to adapt and supplement each other's features, allowing seamless access to automated assistant capabilities before, during, and after vehicle use, utilizing machine learning and heuristic processes to detect vehicle types and provide relevant information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a mobile phone is placed in a cup-holder in a vehicle, then the user can easily access the device, but the audio interfaces (speakers, microphones) are limited and the automated assistant cannot function properly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a vehicle computing device as an intermediary between the user's mobile device and the vehicle's audio system. This mediator enables the automated assistant to function properly by routing audio through the vehicle's speakers and microphones, rather than relying on the mobile phone's limited audio interfaces when placed in a cup-holder.
2Reliability
If a vehicle computing device executes authentication processes for secured applications, then security is maintained, but computational resources are wasted when the user is already verified with a mobile device
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication by verifying the user's mobile device before they enter the vehicle. This advance authentication allows the vehicle computing device to recognize the already-verified user and skip redundant authentication processes, thereby maintaining security while reducing computational resource waste.
3Ease of operation
If the vehicle computing device displays application content on its dedicated display interface, then the user can view content, but computational resources are wasted when the content is already being rendered on the mobile device
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the vehicle computing device detects when the mobile device is already rendering content on its display. Based on this feedback, the vehicle computing device intelligently decides whether to also render the content on its own display, thereby maintaining content visibility while avoiding redundant computational resource consumption.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the automated assistant provides comprehensive vehicle-related features, then user functionality is enhanced, but device complexity increases due to multiple vehicle types and interfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal detection system that can identify multiple vehicle types and their respective computing devices through a single integrated approach. The system uses heuristic processes and machine learning to adapt to different vehicle configurations, enabling comprehensive feature support without proportionally increasing system complexity.
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AI summary
Implementations set forth herein relate to interactions, between vehicle computing devices and mobile computing devices, that reduce duplicative processes from occurring at either device. Reduction of such processes can be performed, in some instances, via communications between a vehicle computing device and a mobile computing device in order to determine, for example, how to uniquely render content at an interface of each respective computing device while the user is driving the vehicle. These communications can occur before a user has entered a vehicle, while the user is in the vehicle, and/or after a user has left the vehicle. For instance, just before a user enters a vehicle, a vehicle computing device can be primed for certain automated assistant interactions between the user and their mobile computing device. Alternatively, or additionally, the user can authorize the vehicle computing device to perform certain processes immediately after leaving the vehicle.