In-Vehicle User Setting Sync for Reliable Equipment Setup
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing in-vehicle equipment setup systems fail to conveniently register and manage settings for each user, leading to hindered updates when acquiring current set values from air conditioners, resulting in inconvenience for users.
Innovation Solution
An in-vehicle equipment setup device and method that includes a storage system to store user setting information, a setter to set reproduction set values based on user preferences, and an updater to acquire and update current set values from in-vehicle equipment, ensuring seamless user-specific setting management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the setting device acquires current set values from the air conditioner during user registration or selection, then the individual settings can be properly updated, but the system may fail to acquire the current set values for certain reasons, resulting in hindered updating of individual settings
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary acquisition of current set values from the air conditioner before user registration or selection. By acquiring the current set values in advance and storing them as default values, the system ensures that individual settings can be properly updated even if the acquisition fails during the actual user registration or selection process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors whether current set values have been successfully acquired from the air conditioner. When acquisition fails, the system uses feedback mechanisms to detect this condition and automatically applies alternative default values, ensuring the setting update process continues without interruption and maintains reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system stores and manages individual settings for multiple users, then user-specific preferences can be preserved, but the complexity of managing and updating these settings increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copies of current air conditioner set values and stores them as default individual settings for each user. By copying the current set values rather than maintaining complex real-time synchronization, the system simplifies the management of user-specific settings while still providing adaptability for multiple users.
Solution Approach 2:
The setting device is designed to handle multiple functions: acquiring current set values, storing them as default values, managing individual user settings, and updating settings based on user selection. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be multiple separate systems into a single unified device, reducing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
An in-vehicle equipment setup device includes: a storage configured to store user setting information in which setting information desired by each user of a vehicle and associated with settings for in-vehicle equipment mounted in the vehicle is correlated with the user; a setter configured to set a set value indicated by the setting information of the user setting information for the corresponding in-vehicle equipment; and an updater configured to acquire a current set value which is a set value currently set from the in-vehicle equipment and to update the set value in the user setting information with the acquired current set value. The setter sets the set value in current user setting information which is the user setting information corresponding to a current user selected as the user who currently uses the vehicle as a reproduction set value for reproducing previous settings for the corresponding in-vehicle equipment. The updater updates the set value set for the corresponding in-vehicle equipment as the reproduction set value in the current user setting information with the acquired current set value.