In-Vehicle Camera Control for User-Based Cabin Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
In-vehicle cameras are underutilized and primarily limited to safety functions, lacking the capability to efficiently optimize vehicle components based on user behavior and preferences.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method utilizing cameras to detect user figures and behaviors, with a controller optimizing vehicle components such as displays, mirrors, and seating arrangements for improved user experience and safety, by adjusting positions and presenting content based on detected data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If in-vehicle cameras are used only for safety-related functions, then the device complexity is reduced and ease of operation is maintained, but the adaptability and versatility of the camera system are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system is designed to perform multiple functions beyond safety monitoring, including detecting user figure, behavior analysis, and optimizing vehicle components. The controller integrates various detection and optimization functions into a single unified system, allowing the existing camera infrastructure to serve diverse purposes such as safety monitoring, user authentication, behavior analysis, and automatic vehicle setting adjustment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If cameras are used to detect user figure and behavior for optimizing vehicle components, then adaptability and user experience are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (safety monitoring, user detection, behavior analysis, and component optimization) into a single integrated controller system. The controller processes camera data to perform user authentication, analyze behavior patterns, and automatically adjust vehicle components, merging these previously separate functions into one unified processing unit that reduces overall system complexity despite increased capabilities.
3Productivity
If in-vehicle cameras are underutilized for only safety functions, then manufacturing cost is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but productivity and resource utilization are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects user presence, analyzes behavior patterns, and adjusts vehicle components without requiring manual intervention. The controller autonomously processes camera data to optimize seating positions, mirror angles, and display configurations based on detected user figure and behavior, enabling the system to serve itself and eliminating the need for additional manual configuration systems.
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AI summary
An apparatus for use with vehicle includes one or more cameras located in the vehicle, used to detect a figure and/or a behavior of a user sat in the vehicle. The apparatus also includes a controller communicated with the cameras, which obtains the detected figure and/or behavior of the user, and optimizes one or more components of the vehicle for the user, based on the detected figure and/or behavior of the user.