Vehicle Interior Control Profiles for Personalized Cabin Settings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle technologies fail to provide a personalized and user-friendly interior environment that adapts to the user's preferences and activities, limiting the vehicle's potential as a personal space.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle control apparatus and method that allows users to specify settings for controlling interior environment elements like display, sound, and lighting, using a processor to execute instructions for adjusting seat position, temperature, and window position based on user inputs, preferences, and activity context, with a system for transaction brokerage and big data integration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a vehicle provides basic interior environment control, then the vehicle functions as a transportation tool, but it fails to provide a personalized and user-friendly experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the interior environment control into multiple independent elements (seats, lighting, temperature, entertainment systems) that can be individually customized. Each element can be controlled separately through user profiles, allowing personalization without requiring complete system redesign. This modular approach enables adaptability while managing complexity through standardized control interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures multiple user profiles with customized settings for different interior environment elements. When a user enters the vehicle, the system automatically applies the appropriate profile settings in advance, eliminating the need for manual adjustment of each parameter. This preliminary configuration approach provides personalized experience while reducing operational complexity for users.
2Ease of operation
If the vehicle interior environment is customized for each user, then user experience is enhanced, but the system complexity and data management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements user profiles that store copies of preferred settings for various interior environment elements. Instead of managing complex real-time adjustments, the system creates simplified copies of optimal configurations for different users and scenarios. These profile copies can be quickly applied without complex data processing, maintaining ease of operation while managing data complexity through standardized profile structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system uses a universal interface that manages multiple interior environment elements through a single unified platform. This multi-functional control mechanism allows the same user interface to handle seats, lighting, temperature, and entertainment settings, simplifying user interaction while the backend systematically manages the complexity of coordinating multiple subsystems.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle provides comprehensive interior control settings, then it creates a personalized space, but it loses the ability to adapt to different users and contexts
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between different user profiles and setting configurations based on detected context such as which user is present, time of day, or driving conditions. The interior environment control adapts in real-time by selecting and modifying appropriate settings from stored profiles, maintaining both personalization and context adaptability through dynamic profile selection and adjustment.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle control apparatus may include a memory storing at least one instruction and a processor that executes the at least one instruction. The processor may obtain, from a server and among a plurality of settings for controlling an interior environment of a vehicle, a setting specified by an input of a user of the vehicle. The plurality of settings include at least one of an image, a sound, or a lighting state. The processor may control, based on the setting, at least one of: a display of the vehicle to provide the image, a speaker of the vehicle to provide the sound, or a light source of the vehicle to provide lighting according to the lighting state.