Vehicle fingerprint bookmark

• US 9,701,202 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2015
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2015
• 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): Park, Chan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Summers, Geoffrey E
• Application Number:
  US14/940,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20170136879A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/143 Touch sensitive instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• 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 35/65 Instruments specially adapted for specific vehicle types or users, e.g. for left- or right-hand drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 37/00 Dashboards as road-vehicle superstructure sub-units B62D25/14
• 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: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1359 Extracting features related to ridge properties; Determining the fingerprint type, e.g. whorl or loop
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1365 Matching; Classification

Abstract

Provided in the present disclosure is a fingerprint bookmark system which may be implemented in a vehicle with one or more configurable interior settings. The fingerprint bookmark system may contain a scanner which may be configured to record a fingerprint from a vehicle occupant such that a fingerprint image showing the fingerprint and a duration data for the fingerprint image are recorded by the scanner. The system may contain one or more processors which may be configured to compare the duration data associated with the fingerprint image with a duration threshold. The one or more processors may be configured to initiate a search to obtain a bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image when the duration data is less than the duration threshold. The one or more processors may be further configured to create a new bookmark when the duration data exceeds the duration threshold.

Claims

1. A fingerprint bookmark system in a vehicle with one or more configurable interior settings, the fingerprint bookmark system comprising:

a scanner configured to record a fingerprint from a vehicle occupant such that a fingerprint image showing the fingerprint and duration data for the fingerprint image are recorded by the scanner, the duration data indicating a time value associated with the fingerprint image;

a comparator circuit coupled with the scanner for determining whether the duration data associated with the fingerprint image exceeds a duration threshold, wherein the comparator circuit is located within the vehicle; and

one or more processors configured to;

when the comparator circuit determines that the duration data is less than the duration threshold, initiate a search to obtain a first bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image and to configure an interior setting of the vehicle in accordance with one or more instructions contained in the first bookmark; and

when the comparator circuit determines that the duration data exceeds the duration threshold, create a second bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image, wherein the second bookmark contains at least one instruction that is different from each of the one or more instructions contained in the first bookmark.

2. The fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein initiating the search to obtain the first bookmark comprises:

generating a search request for execution by a remote server, the search request indicating the fingerprint image; and

receiving the first bookmark from the remote server after the remote server finds a match between the fingerprint image and a stored fingerprint image, the stored fingerprint image being stored in association with the first bookmark, wherein the remote server is remote from the vehicle.

3. The vehicle fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein the duration threshold is three seconds.

4. The vehicle fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are located in the vehicle.

5. The vehicle fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are located in the scanner.

6. The vehicle fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to perform no action when the first bookmark is not found and the duration data is less than the duration threshold.

7. The vehicle fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein the fingerprint image is an image of multiple fingerprints.

8. The vehicle fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein the one or more configurable interior settings includes one or more of the following:

seat adjustment, mirror adjustment, air temperature, seat temperature, radio, GPS, and dashboard arrangement.

9. A method for configuring interior settings of a vehicle, the method comprising:

recording, by a scanner, a fingerprint from a vehicle occupant such that a fingerprint image showing the fingerprint and duration data for the fingerprint image are recorded by the scanner, the duration data indicating a time value associated with the fingerprint image;

determining, by a comparator circuit coupled with the scanner, whether the duration data associated with the fingerprint image exceeds a duration threshold, wherein the comparator circuit is located within the vehicle;

when the comparator circuit determines that the duration data is less than the duration threshold, initiating a search, by one or more processors, to obtain a first bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image and to configure an interior setting of the vehicle in accordance with one or more instructions contained in the first bookmark; and

when the comparator circuit determines that the duration data exceeds the duration threshold, creating, by the one or more processors, a second bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image, wherein the second bookmark contains at least one instruction that is different from each of the one or more instructions contained in the first bookmark.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the duration threshold is three seconds.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors are located in the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors are located in the scanner.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising

performing no action when the first bookmark is not found and the duration data is less than the duration threshold.