Biometric based personalized settings for a driving apparatus

• US 9,694,771 B1
• Filed: 12/21/2015
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Thunder Power New Energy Vehicle Development Company Limited
• Inventors: Ding, Jia-Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): GAY, SONIA L
• Application Number:
  US14/977,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20170174158A1
• Time in Patent Office: 561 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/037 for occupant comfort , e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating a personalizing settings in a driving apparatus using user'"'"'s biometric information are provided. Individual users of an automobile are facilitated to set personal settings through a biometric information device in the driving apparatus. In one embodiment, a given user of the driving apparatus is facilitated to provide his/her fingerprint in a first mode through the fingerprint scanner to store settings of a set of currently configured components as the personalized settings for those components. The given user is facilitated to subsequently provide his/her fingerprint in a second mode through the fingerprint scanner to retrieve the personalized settings for the set of configured components and have the set of components configured in accordance with those settings. In some examples, security is provided to determine whether a given user is authorized to personalize certain customizable components in the driving apparatus.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for configuring a driving apparatus comprising one or more customizable components, the method comprising:

storing component configuration information for users of the driving apparatus, wherein the component configuration information including first component configuration information indicating configurations of a first set of customizable components;

receiving, from a biometric capturing device, first biometric information regarding a first user of the driving apparatus and first indicating information indicating a first duration for which the first user provided biometric information through the biometric capturing device;

determining the first duration is less than a threshold duration;

in response to determining the first duration is less than a first threshold duration, retrieving the first component configuration information based on the first biometric information regarding the first user;

receiving, from the biometric capturing device, second biometric information regarding a second user of the driving apparatus and second indicating information indicating a second duration for which the second user provided biometric information through the biometric capturing device, wherein the second user is distinct and separate from the first user;

determining the second duration is longer than the threshold duration;

in response to determining the second duration is longer than the threshold duration, obtaining, from the second user, at least one configuration change for the first set of customizable components; and

in response to obtaining the at least one configuration change for the first set of customizable components, updating the configurations of the first set of customizable components with the at least one configuration change.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein updating the configurations of the first set of customizable components comprises determining whether the second user is authorized to update configurations of the second set of customizable components.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first biometric information regarding the first user includes information indicating at least one of a fingerprint, a voice pattern and a retina pattern of the first user.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the component configuration information for the users of the driving apparatus is stored in a remote storage over a network, and wherein the first component configuration information for the first user is retrieved from the remote storage over the network.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first set of customizable components include at least one of a mirror, a seat, a steering wheel, a climate control, a navigation system, an entertainment system, a window and a light of the driving apparatus.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after retrieving the first configuration information, effectuating configuration of the first set of customizable components using the first configuration information.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the second set of customizable components comprise at least one component that is not configurable by the first user.

6. A system configured to facilitate a user to configure and automatically retrieve personalized settings for customizable components in a driving apparatus, the system comprising a processor configured to perform:

storing component configuration information for users of the driving apparatus, wherein the component configuration information including first component configuration information indicating configurations of a first set of customizable components;

receiving, from a biometric capturing device, first biometric information regarding a first user of the driving apparatus and first indicating information indicating a first duration for which the first user provided biometric information through the biometric capturing device;

determining the first duration is less than a threshold duration;

in response to determining the first duration is less than a first threshold duration, retrieving the first component configuration information based on the first biometric information regarding the first user;

receiving, from the biometric capturing device, second biometric information regarding a second user of the driving apparatus and second indicating information indicating a second duration for which the second user provided biometric information through the biometric capturing device, wherein the second user is distinct and separate from the first user;

determining the second duration is longer than the threshold duration;

in response to determining the second duration is longer than a the threshold duration, obtaining, from the second user, at least one configuration change for the second set of customizable components; and

in response to obtaining the at least one configuration change for the second set of customizable components, updating the configurations of the first set of customizable components with the at least one configuration change.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein updating the configurations of the first set of customizable components comprises determining whether the second user is authorized to update configurations of the second set of customizable components.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the first biometric information regarding the first user includes information indicating at least one of a fingerprint, a voice pattern and a retina pattern of the first user.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the component configuration information for the users of the driving apparatus is stored in a remote storage over a network, and wherein the first component configuration information for the first user is retrieved from the remote storage over the network.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the first set of customizable one or more configurable components include at least one of a mirror, a seat, a steering wheel, a climate control, a navigation system, an entertainment system, a window and a light of the driving apparatus.