Automatic in-vehicle component adjustment

• US 10,293,768 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2017
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2017
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wellen Sham
• Original Assignee: Wellen Sham
• Inventors: Sham, Wellen
• Primary Examiner(s): Nolan, Peter D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith-Stewart, Demetra R
• Application Number:
  US15/675,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20190047497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/80 Circuits; Control arrangements for dashboards B60Q3/16; for mass transit vehicles B60Q3/47
• 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: B60W 40/00 Estimation or calculation of non-directly measurable driving parameters for road vehicle drive control systems not related to the control of a particular sub unit, e.g. by using mathematical models
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/00 Details of control systems for road vehicle drive control not related to the control of a particular sub-unit , e.g. process diagnostic or vehicle driver interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2302/09 Reducing the workload of driver
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• 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: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

Embodiments can provide a real-time system that can automatically adjust various components within a driving apparatus automatically in response to certain conditions being detected. The real-time system may be configured to control these components in response to detection of certain conditions, which may include external conditions and/or internal conditions. In some embodiments, a user of the driving apparatus may be facilitated to provide his/her personal settings to configure the real-time system. In those embodiments, an interface may be provided to the user to instruct the real-time system to adjust one or more components within the driving apparatus in accordance with the user provided personal settings in response to one or more specific conditions being detected.

Claims

1. A method for automatically adjusting one or more component settings of a driving apparatus, the method being implemented in a processor configured to execute machine-readable instructions, the method comprising:

identifying a user of the driving apparatus;

receiving condition information regarding an external condition about the driving apparatus, wherein the condition information indicates occurrence of the external condition has been detected;

in response to the detection of the occurrence of the external condition as indicated by the condition information, retrieving one or more rules matching the external condition, wherein a given one of the one or more rules specifies a component within the driving apparatus to be adjusted, a specific target setting for the adjustment, and a condition that triggers the adjustment of the component;

based on the one or more rules, determine one or more components for adjustment by virtue occurrence of the external condition;

retrieving personal setting data for the identified user, the retrieved personal setting data including one or more target settings for adjusting the component as specified in the given rule; and

generating one or more control commands for adjusting settings of the one or more components based on the retrieved rules and personal setting data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the external condition includes one of a weather condition, a road condition, and a traffic condition in an area where is driving apparatus is traveling in.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the condition information includes at least one of a fatigue condition and a medical condition regarding the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the condition information includes at least one of an ambient condition within a cabin of the driving apparatus, a mechanical condition of the driving apparatus, and an electrical condition of the driving apparatus.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal setting data overrides the target setting specified in the given rule.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal setting data specify at least one additional target setting for adjusting the component specified in the given rule.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the component specified in the given rule includes at least one of:

an audio module, air conditioning module, seat control module, interior lighting module, window control module, sunroof control module, mirror control module, and telecommunication module of the driving apparatus.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the driving apparatus includes a vehicle, a train, a ship, or an airplane.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the personal setting data from the user via an interface, the interface being presented to user on a portable computing device associated with the user.

10. A system for automatically adjusting one or more component settings of a driving apparatus, the system comprising one or more processors configured to execute machine-readable instructions, wherein when the machine-readable instructions are executed, the one or more processors are caused to perform:

identifying a user of the driving apparatus;

receiving condition information regarding an external condition about the driving apparatus, wherein the condition information indicates occurrence of the external condition has been detected;

in response to the detection of the occurrence of the external condition as indicated by the condition information, retrieving one or more rules matching the external condition, wherein a given one of the one or more rules specifies a component within the driving apparatus to be adjusted, a specific target setting for the adjustment, and a condition that triggers the adjustment of the component;

based on the one or more rules, determining one or more components for adjustment by virtue occurrence of the external condition;

retrieving personal setting data for the identified user, the retrieved personal setting data including one or more target settings for adjusting the component as specified in the given rule; and

generating one or more control commands for adjusting settings of the one or more components based on the retrieved rules and personal setting data.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the external condition includes one of a weather condition, a road condition, and a traffic condition in an area where is driving apparatus is traveling in.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the condition information includes at least one of a fatigue condition and a medical condition regarding the user.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the condition information include at least one of an ambient condition within a cabin of the driving apparatus, a mechanical condition of the driving apparatus, and an electrical condition of the driving apparatus.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the personal setting data overrides the target setting specified in the given rule.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the personal setting data specify at least one additional target setting for adjusting the component specified in the given rule.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the component specified in the given rule includes at least one of:

an audio module, air conditioning module, seat control module, interior lighting module, window control module, sunroof control module, mirror control module, and telecommunication module of the driving apparatus.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the driving apparatus includes a vehicle, a train, a ship, or an airplane.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more processors are further caused by the machine-readable instructions to perform:

receiving the personal setting data from the user via an interface, the interface being presented to user on a portable computing device associated with the user.