Vehicle Gesture Object Detection for Safe Infotainment Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern infotainment systems in vehicles are complex to navigate, requiring multiple interactions from users, which can be cumbersome and unsafe while driving, especially when dealing with numerous points of interest or roadside objects.
Innovation Solution
A system that detects user gestures or eye movements to select objects of interest, using a gesture detector and object recognizer to provide relevant information or actions without requiring users to manually interact with the screen, allowing for voice or gesture responses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users manually interact with the infotainment screen to select points of interest, then information can be retrieved accurately, but user safety deteriorates due to taking eyes off the road and multiple interactions required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical interaction with the infotainment screen by implementing gesture-based control systems. Sensors detect user gestures (hand movements, head movements, or eye movements) and translate them into selection commands, eliminating the need for users to physically touch or navigate the screen while maintaining accurate point of interest selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of user gestures and pre-processes the selection intent before final confirmation. By detecting gestures in advance and preparing the selection state, the system reduces the number of interaction steps required while ensuring accurate selection, allowing users to complete the action faster with fewer eye departures from the road.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the infotainment system provides comprehensive navigation and information features, then system functionality is improved, but device complexity increases requiring multiple interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The gesture detection system serves multiple functions: it detects hand gestures for selection, head gestures for navigation, and eye movements for confirmation. This single multi-functional gesture interface replaces multiple specialized controls, allowing comprehensive infotainment functionality to be accessed through a unified, simpler interaction paradigm.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces gesture recognition technology as an intermediary layer between the user and the complex infotainment system. This intermediary translates diverse user intentions into standardized selection commands, simplifying the interaction path to complex backend functions without losing system versatility.
3Measurement precision
If multiple interaction steps are required to select and act on points of interest, then selection precision is improved, but loss of time increases making the process cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The system detects and pre-processes user selection intent through gestures before final confirmation is needed. By identifying the user's target point of interest through gesture detection in advance, the system prepares the selection state and reduces the time required for subsequent confirmation steps, maintaining precision while accelerating the overall process.
Solution Approach 2:
The gesture-based system allows users to skip traditional multi-step navigation by directly indicating their selection intent through natural gestures. The system interprets these gestures to jump directly to the selection confirmation stage, bypassing intermediate browsing and menu navigation steps while preserving accurate selection through gesture directionality and target association.
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AI summary
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting a user gesture or eye tracking for selecting of an object, and responding to the selection, are disclosed. A gesture or eye tracker may be placed near a user, along with a camera positioned to share at least a portion of a field of view with the user. The user may look or gesture to an object within the portion of the field of view, indicating its selection. The object may be recognized, and the user presented with one or more actions to take in response to the selected object.