Vehicle Gesture Control Using User Profiles for Intuitive Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicles fail to integrate both physical and mental comforts seamlessly with electronic devices, resulting in a non-intuitive user experience, despite efforts to enhance comfort through features like leather seats and internet connectivity.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle ecosystem that utilizes a processor-based system for receiving and identifying user gestures, verifying them, and controlling associated functions, while also modifying settings based on user profiles and characteristics to provide an intuitive and immersive experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If vehicle manufacturers add comfort features like leather seats and internet connectivity, then user comfort is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle control system is designed to perform multiple functions including gesture recognition, user identification, profile retrieval, and control of various vehicle features through a single integrated system, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive comfort features
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically identifies users and retrieves their profiles without manual intervention, then autonomously adjusts vehicle settings based on stored preferences, eliminating the need for users to manually configure each comfort feature
2Ease of operation
If the system automatically adjusts settings based on user profiles, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
User preferences and settings are pre-configured in digital profiles stored in the system memory. When a user is identified, the system automatically retrieves and applies the appropriate profile settings without requiring real-time user input, simplifying the interaction while managing complexity through advance preparation
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates verification mechanisms where gestures are verified before executing control functions, and settings are adjusted based on feedback from user identification and profile matching, ensuring reliable automatic control while maintaining system manageability
3Reliability
If gesture verification is implemented, then reliability is improved, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements verification for critical control functions while allowing direct execution for less critical operations. The verification process checks essential parameters without requiring complete re-verification of all gesture parameters, providing sufficient reliability while minimizing delays in control response
Data Source
AI summary
The vehicle control system/method for adapting a control function based on a user profile may comprise: a gesture recognition module; a user profile module; a function control module; a processor; a non-transitory storage element coupled to the processor; encoded instructions stored in the non-transitory storage element, wherein the encoded instructions when implemented by the processor, configure the system to: identify a user; retrieve a user profile for the identified user; receive at a gesture recognition module, an input indicating a gesture from the user; identify a control function request corresponding to the gesture input; send a verification of the control function request; and receive at a function control module characteristics parsed from the user profile that effect the control function request by the user profile module to adapt a control function command for an adapted control function output by the function control module.