Vehicle Feature Activation via Speech Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle education systems cannot remotely activate vehicle features or recall past occupant behaviors to suggest preferred configurations, limiting their ability to assist users effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses speech recognition to receive occupant requests, retrieve feature information, and provide descriptions through audio and visual displays, with the capability to remotely activate features based on popular configurations if permitted by the vehicle's systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the system provides detailed education about vehicle features through audio descriptions, then the occupant learns how to operate features, but the system cannot remotely activate the features to further assist the occupant
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by analyzing the speech input to detect feature activation requests before the occupant would manually activate the feature. The controller proactively determines whether activation is requested and executes the activation command, preparing and performing the action in advance of what would otherwise be a manual operation sequence.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by autonomously activating vehicle features based on speech analysis without requiring manual intervention. The controller automatically executes feature activation commands based on the detected intent in the speech input, allowing the system to serve itself in performing the activation task that would traditionally require direct occupant action.
2Ease of operation
If the system activates features based on speech requests, then user convenience is improved, but the system cannot incorporate ability to recall past behaviors or popular configurations to suggest preferred settings
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by accessing popular configuration data that represents aggregated past occupant behaviors and preferences. This feedback mechanism allows the system to learn from collective user patterns and use that information to suggest and activate appropriately configured features, closing the loop between past usage data and current system responses.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring features based on popular configurations stored in the database before the occupant even requests them. When speech input is analyzed, the system can immediately activate features with pre-determined optimal settings based on aggregated user data, eliminating the need for the occupant to manually configure each parameter.
3Loss of information
If the system provides only audio descriptions of features, then the education capability is maintained, but the system lacks the capability to provide both description and activation
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by designing the controller to perform multiple functions: it can provide audio descriptions when requested, detect feature activation requests within speech inputs, and execute feature activation commands. This multi-functional capability allows the same system to adapt to different occupant needs - whether they want information, activation, or both - without requiring separate systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamics by making its response behavior adaptive based on the content of the speech input. The controller dynamically determines whether the input contains a description request, an activation request, or both, and adjusts its actions accordingly. This dynamic response capability allows the system to be versatile in handling different types of occupant interactions with the same underlying infrastructure.
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AI summary
One general aspect includes a system for responsive activation of a vehicle feature for a vehicle, the system includes: an audio system configured to announce information and the vehicle feature; a memory configured to include one or more executable instructions; a controller configured to execute the executable instructions, and where the executable instructions enable the controller to: receive speech inputs from a vehicle occupant located in the vehicle, the speech inputs regarding the vehicle feature; retrieve vehicle feature information from vehicle feature information databases, in response to the received speech inputs; provide audio description information for the vehicle feature information; determine whether at least one received speech input includes a feature activation request; provide vehicle feature activation information to the vehicle feature, in response to a positive determination that the at least one received speech input includes the feature activation request.