USER INTERFACE AND VIRTUAL PERSONALITY PRESENTATION BASED ON USER PROFILE

• US 20140309868A1
• Filed: 04/15/2014
• Published: 10/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AutoConnect Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: Flextronics America LLC (Flextronics International Limited)
• Inventors: Ricci, Christopher P.
• Application Number:
  US14/253,240
• Publication Number:
  US 20140309868A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/52 for indicating emergencies
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/00 Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/1004 Alarm systems characterised by the type of sensor, e.g. current sensing means using door lock sensors B60R25/1001
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/012 Providing warranty services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0265 Vehicular advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0645 : Rental transactions; Leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 : Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/59 : inside of a vehicle, e.g. relating to seat occupancy, driver state or inner lighting conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/15 : Biometric patterns based on physiological signals, e.g. heartbeat, blood flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/166 : using acquisition arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/168 : Feature extraction; Face representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/28 : Recognition of hand or arm movements, e.g. recognition of deaf sign language static hand signs G06V40/113
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 : Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/06 : indicating a condition of sleep, e.g. anti-dozing alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 : Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/188 : Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096725 : where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 : where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 : where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 : in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 : specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 : located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 : for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 : Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/084 : using delegated authorisation, e.g. open authorisation [OAuth] protocol
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/088 : using filters or firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 : Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/34 : Reselection control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 : for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 : for in-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 : Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 : based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 : Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 : Moving wireless networks

Abstract

Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides various outputs based on a user profile and determined context. An output provided by the present disclosure can change a configuration of a vehicle, device, building, and/or a system associated with the user profile. The configurations can include comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile information. Further, the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining a presence of a user inside a vehicle;

determining an identity of the user;

receiving input provided by the user, the input having a context associated therewith; and

retrieving, based at least partially on the input provided by the user, a virtual personality for presentation to at least one device associated with the vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the presence of the user inside the vehicle further comprises:

detecting a person via at least one image sensor associated with the vehicle.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:

identifying facial features associated with the person detected via the at least one image sensor; and

determining whether the identified facial features associated with the person match user characteristics stored in a memory.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the identified facial features associated with the person do not match the user characteristics stored in the memory, and wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:

prompting the user for identification information;

receiving identification information from the user; and

storing the identification information received from the user in the memory.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the identified facial features associated with the person match the user characteristics stored in the memory, and wherein the virtual personality is retrieved from a user profile associated with the user identified.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the input provided by the user further comprises:

determining the context of the input, wherein the context corresponds to an emotional state of the user.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein retrieving the virtual personality for presentation to at least one device further comprises:

determining, based at least partially on the context of the input, a content of the virtual personality to suit the emotional state of the user.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

comparing the determined content of the virtual personality with emotional information in a user profile virtual personality; and

generating, when the determined content of the virtual personality differs from the emotional information in the user profile virtual personality, an adjusted user profile virtual personality for presentation, wherein the adjusted user profile includes the content to suit the emotional state of the user.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

presenting the virtual personality having the content to suit the emotional state of the user, wherein the content of the virtual personality includes an opposite emotional state to the emotional state of the user.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the virtual personality includes at least one of an avatar, a voice output, a visual output, a tone, and a volume intensity.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, perform a method comprising:

determining a presence of a user inside a vehicle;

determining an identity of the user;

receiving input provided by the user, the input having a context associated therewith; and

retrieving, based at least partially on the input provided by the user, a virtual personality for presentation to at least one device associated with the vehicle.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein determining the presence of the user inside the vehicle further comprises:

detecting a person via at least one image sensor associated with the vehicle.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:

identifying facial features associated with the person detected via the at least one image sensor; and

determining whether the identified facial features associated with the person match user characteristics stored in a memory.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the identified facial features associated with the person do not match the user characteristics stored in the memory, and wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:

prompting the user for identification information;

receiving identification information from the user; and

storing the identification information received from the user in the memory.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the identified facial features associated with the person match the user characteristics stored in the memory, and wherein the virtual personality is retrieved from a user profile associated with the user identified.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein receiving the input provided by the user further comprises:

determining the context of the input, wherein the context corresponds to an emotional state of the user.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein retrieving the virtual personality for presentation to at least one device further comprises:

determining, based at least partially on the context of the input, a content of the virtual personality to suit the emotional state of the user.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

comparing the determined content of the virtual personality with emotional information in a user profile virtual personality; and

generating, when the determined content of the virtual personality differs from the emotional information in the user profile virtual personality, an adjusted user profile virtual personality for presentation, wherein the adjusted user profile includes the content to suit the emotional state of the user.

19. A vehicle control system, comprising:

a personality module contained in a memory and executed by a processor of the vehicle control system, the personality module configured to determine a presence of a user inside a vehicle;

determine an identity of the user, receive input provided by the user, the input having a context associated therewith, and retrieve, based at least partially on the input provided by the user, a virtual personality for presentation to at least one device associated with the vehicle.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein receiving the input provided by the user further comprises determining the context of the input, wherein the context corresponds to an emotional state of the user, and wherein retrieving the virtual personality for presentation to at least one device further comprises determining, based at least partially on the context of the input, a content of the virtual personality to suit the emotional state of the user.