Vehicle User Recognition for Automatic Setting Restoration

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Solution Overview

Problem

In energy courier services for new energy vehicles, the need to adjust vehicle settings during pick-up and return often results in inconvenient re-adjustments for subsequent users, leading to a poor user experience.

Innovation Solution

An automatic adjustment system and method for vehicles, which includes a recognition and acquisition subsystem to identify user features, a storage subsystem to store corresponding vehicle setting parameters, and a vehicle setting adjustment subsystem to automatically adjust vehicle settings based on recognized features.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If vehicle settings are manually adjusted during energy courier service, then the courier can customize settings for their convenience, but subsequent users must readjust settings leading to poor user experience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconvenience of driving for energy courierVSAvoiduser experience for subsequent users
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically restoring vehicle settings to the original owner's configuration when the energy courier returns the vehicle. The recognition subsystem detects the owner's features, retrieves stored setting parameters, and the adjustment subsystem restores settings before the owner picks up the vehicle again, preventing the need for manual readjustment by subsequent users

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by storing the original vehicle setting parameters and using them to automatically restore settings. The recognition subsystem provides feedback about which user is present, and the control subsystem uses this feedback to apply the appropriate stored settings, ensuring the vehicle is always configured correctly for the current user

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If vehicle settings are automatically adjusted based on user recognition, then subsequent users experience improved convenience, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic adjustment capabilityVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies universality by using a multi-functional integrated control subsystem that combines feature recognition, parameter storage, and setting adjustment capabilities. This single subsystem performs multiple functions that would otherwise require separate systems, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining automatic adjustment capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses copying by storing copies of the original vehicle setting parameters in a database. When automatic adjustment is needed, the system retrieves and applies these stored parameter copies rather than requiring complex real-time analysis, simplifying the adjustment process while maintaining adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentEP3738838B1Automatic adjustment system and method for vehicle
Publication Date: 2025.04.30 NIO ANHUI HLDG CO LTD
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AI summary

The invention relates to an automatic adjustment system for a vehicle, which is characterized by comprising: a recognition and acquisition subsystem configured to recognize and acquire feature data of a driver and/or a passenger in a vehicle; a storage subsystem configured to store and retrieve the feature data and vehicle setting parameters corresponding to the feature data; and a vehicle setting adjustment subsystem configured to automatically adjust settings of the vehicle according to the vehicle setting parameters that are stored in the storage subsystem and that correspond to the feature data recognized by the recognition and acquisition subsystem. According to the invention, the particularity of an energy courier service that is not considered in a conventional automatic vehicle setting adjustment scheme can be considered, such as an authorization process when an energy courier uses a vehicle, and an automatic recovery process when the energy courier returns the vehicle.