LOCATION BASED FEATURE USAGE PREDICTION FOR CONTEXTUAL HMI

• US 20140300494A1
• Filed: 04/03/2013
• Published: 10/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Tseng, Finn, Kristinsson, Johannes Geir, McGee, Ryan Abraham, Filev, Dimitar Petrov, Greenberg, Jeff Allen
• Application Number:
  US13/855,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20140300494A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/932.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/182 Distributing information between displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/186 Displaying information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/741 Instruments adapted for user detection
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/11 Graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/182 Distributing information between displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/186 Displaying Information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/741 User detection
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/65 Instruments specially adapted for specific vehicle types or users, e.g. for left- or right-hand drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/002 for parking purposes, e.g. for warning the driver that his vehicle has contacted or is about to contact an obstacle warning arrangements in garages E04H6/42

Abstract

A vehicle system having a controller configured to receive a sensor input. The controller may generate a feature score based at least in part on the sensor input and a location data within a database. The controller may associate the feature score to a selectable option. The controller may instruct a user interface device to display the selectable option in response to the feature score.

Claims

1. A vehicle system comprising:

a controller configured to;

receive a sensor input;

generate a feature score based at least in part on the sensor input and location data within a database;

associate the feature score to a selectable option; and

instruct a user interface device to display the selectable option in response to the feature score.

2. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the selectable option is a park assist option and a valet option.

3. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the feature score includes a highest score and wherein the selectable option associated with the feature score is a preferred feature.

4. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the location data includes a stop location and a selectable option data.

5. The vehicle system of claim 4, wherein the stop location is determined based on a previous stop location.

6. The vehicle system of claim 4, wherein the controller is configured to compare the previous stop location with the sensor input to generate a closest previous stop location.

7. The vehicle system of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to determine a distance to the closest previous stop location based on the sensor input.

8. The vehicle system of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to determine the number of times the selectable option has been implemented at the closest previous stop location.

9. The vehicle system of claim 4, wherein the controller is configured to:

determine, based on the location data, the number of visits to the previous stop location;

determine whether the number of visits exceeds a predefined threshold, and

calculate a normalized usage frequency of the selectable option at the previous stop location.

10. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine the selectable option based on the location data.

11. The vehicle system of claim 1, wherein the location data includes at least one valet location.

12. A vehicle controller comprising:

a contextual module configured to receive a sensor input and location data and generate an output based on the sensor input and location data; and

a processor configured to;

receive the output from the contextual module,

generate a feature score based on the output,

associate the feature score with a selectable option, wherein the feature score represents a likelihood of the selectable option being activated, and

instruct a user interface device to display the selectable option based on the feature score.

13. The vehicle controller of claim 12, wherein the location data includes a stop location and a selectable option data.

14. The vehicle controller of claim 13, wherein the contextual module is further configured to determine a normalized usage frequency of the selectable option, wherein the normalized usage frequency includes the frequency of past activations of the selectable option at the stop location.

15. The vehicle controller of claim 13, wherein the contextual module is configured to determine a closest stop location based on the sensor input and location data.

16. The vehicle controller of claim 15, wherein the contextual module is configured to determine a distance between the closest stop location and the sensor input.

17. A method comprising:

receiving a sensor input;

generating, via a computing device, a feature score based at least in part on the sensor input and a location data within a database;

associating the feature score with a selectable option; and

instructing a user interface device to display the selectable option based on the associated feature score.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein generating the feature score includes further determining a normalized feature usage, the normalized feature usage including an estimated frequency that the selectable option will be activated.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the generating of the feature scores includes determining a previous stop location based on the sensor input and the location data.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the generating of the feature score includes determining a distance between the previous stop location based on the sensor input.