Vehicle Navigation via User Profile Context
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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 climate control.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle ecosystem with a processor-based control system that integrates route information, context, and pattern recognition to provide personalized navigation, including route suggestions and translations, to create a more intuitive and immersive experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If vehicles add comfort features like leather seats and climate control, then physical comfort is improved, but the system complexity increases and seamless integration with electronic devices is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple previously separate systems (navigation, user profiles, route suggestion) into a unified vehicle control system that processes route information and user context together, enabling seamless integration with electronic devices while maintaining user comfort
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle control system is designed to perform multiple functions including receiving route information, determining context, storing data, identifying patterns, and providing route suggestions, replacing the need for multiple separate systems and reducing overall complexity
2Ease of operation
If vehicles provide basic navigation routes, then navigation functionality is achieved, but personalized and intuitive user experience is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously receives feedback from multiple sources including route information from navigation systems, user profile data, and context information from electronic devices, then uses this feedback to dynamically generate personalized route suggestions that adapt to user preferences and behaviors
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing route information and context data in advance, identifying usage patterns beforehand, and preparing personalized route suggestions before the user actually needs them, creating a more intuitive and responsive navigation experience
3Adaptability or versatility
If vehicles integrate multiple data sources for personalized navigation, then user experience is improved, but the amount of data processing and system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle control system is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple data sources (navigation routes, user profiles, context information from electronic devices) and performs multiple processing functions (storing, analyzing, pattern recognition) within a single integrated system, reducing overall complexity despite increased capabilities
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data.