User settings system and method of using the same

• US 8,548,209 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2011
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Polight Technologies Limited
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lung, Chien-Lih
• Primary Examiner(s): Desire, Gregory M
• Application Number:
  US13/014,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20120045102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: 382/118, 382/117, 382/104, 340/575, 701/45
• US Class Current: 382/117
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/002 Seats provided with an occupancy detection means mounted therein or thereon detection means responsive to presence or absence of children B60N2/266
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0248 with memory of positions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/19 Sensors therefor

Abstract

A user settings system includes a trigger module, an image acquisition module, a microprocessor and a database. The trigger module implements the image acquisition module to capture a pupil image of a driver. The database is coupled with the microprocessor, and stores at least one pupil image of at least one authorized user and the personalized settings of the authorized user. The microprocessor includes a comparison module, a response module, and an implementation module. The comparison module compares the pupil image of the driver captured by the image acquisition module with the stored pupil images in the database and generates a result notification to the response module. The response module determines whether or not a matching pupil image is found. The implementation module automatically activates the personalized settings stored in the database.

Claims

1. A user settings system, comprising:

a trigger module;

an image acquisition module comprising;

a camera capturing a pupil image of a driver triggering the trigger module;

an illumination device illuminating under insufficient light; and

a position adjusting device, wherein the camera and the illumination device are fixed on the position adjusting device, the position adjusting device automatically adjusts angles of both the camera and the illumination device relative to the driver according to a position and a height of the driver, before the camera captures the pupil image of the driver triggering the trigger module;

a microprocessor, the microprocessor comprising a comparison module, a response module, and an implementation module; and

a database coupled with the microprocessor and storing a pupil image of each of at least one authorized user and a personalized setting of each of the at least one authorized user;

wherein the trigger module actuates the image acquisition module to capture the pupil image of a driver triggering the trigger module, the comparison module compares the pupil image of the driver captured by the image acquisition module with the pupil image of each of the at least one authorized user stored in the database and generates a result notification to the response module, the response module makes a determination whether or not the pupil image captured by the image acquisition module matches with a pupil image stored in the database according to an output signal of the comparison result, and generates a corresponding confirmation to the implementation module, and the implementation module determines whether a personalized setting stored in the database is automatically installed by the implementation module according to the determination of the response module.

2. The user settings system of claim 1, wherein the illumination device is an infrared illumination device.

3. The user settings system of claim 2, wherein the image acquisition module further comprises a position adjusting device, and the camera and the illumination device are fixed on the position adjusting device.

4. The user settings system of claim 1, wherein a brightness of the illumination device changes periodically.

5. A user settings system, comprising:

a trigger module;

an image acquisition module comprising;

a camera capturing a pupil image of a driver triggering the trigger module; and

a position adjusting device, wherein the camera is fixed on the position adjusting device, the position adjusting device automatically adjusts an angle of the camera relative to the driver according to a position and a height of the driver, before the camera captures the pupil image of the driver triggering the trigger module;

a microprocessor, the microprocessor comprising a comparison module, a response module, and an implementation module; and

a database coupled with the microprocessor and storing a pupil image of each of at least one authorized user and a personalized setting of each of the at least one authorized user;

wherein the trigger module actuates the image acquisition module to capture the pupil image of a driver triggering the trigger module, the comparison module compares the pupil image of the driver captured by the image acquisition module with the pupil image of each of the at least one authorized user stored in the database and generates a result notification to the response module, the response module makes a determination whether or not the pupil image captured by the image acquisition module matches with a pupil image stored in the database according to an output signal of the comparison result, and generates a corresponding confirmation to the implementation module, and the implementation module determines whether a personalized setting stored in the database is automatically installed by the implementation module according to the determination of the response module.

6. A method for personalizing settings of a vehicle, comprising:

storing a pupil image of each of at least one authorized user and a personalized setting of each of the at least one authorized user;

automatically adjusting an angle of a camera relative to a driver by a position adjusting device on which the camera is fixed, according to a position and a height of the driver;

capturing a pupil image of the driver of the vehicle by the camera after the angle of the camera relative to the driver is automatically adjusted;

comparing the captured pupil image of the driver with the pupil image of each of at least one authorized user stored in a database;

determining whether or not a matching pupil image is found in the database; and

activating a personalized setting stored in the database of the authorized user whose pupil image matches with the captured pupil image if the matching pupil image is found in the database.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of determining if a matching pupil image is found in the database comprises:

determining that the matching pupil image is found if the similarity between the captured pupil image and a pupil image stored in the database exceeds or equals a preset value; and

determining that no matching pupil image is found in the database if the similarity between the captured pupil image and each pupil image stored in the database is less than the preset value.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising making a prompt to the driver to adjust the settings of the vehicle and storing the settings in the database if no matching pupil image is found in the database.