Vehicle fingerprint bookmark

• US 9,944,241 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2017
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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): Niu, Feng
• Assistant Examiner(s): Summers, Geoffrey E
• Application Number:
  US15/489,393
• Publication Number:
  US 20170217391A1
• Time in Patent Office: 365 Days
• Field of Search: 382104, 382124
• 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: 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: G01L 1/26 Auxiliary measures taken, or devices used, in connection with the measurement of force, e.g. for preventing influence of transverse components of force, for preventing overload
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 5/22 for measuring the force applied to control members, e.g. control members of vehicles, triggers
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 3/40 Investigating hardness or rebound hardness
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5854 using shape and object relationship
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/13 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1365 Matching; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/50 Maintenance of biometric data or enrolment thereof

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 firmness data for the fingerprint image are recorded by the scanner, the firmness data indicating a firmness value associated with the fingerprint image;

a remote server configured to receive the fingerprint image from the scanner and to initiate a search to obtain a first bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image;

a comparator circuit coupled with the scanner for determining whether the firmness data associated with the fingerprint image is less than or greater than a firmness threshold, wherein the comparator circuit is located within the vehicle; and

one or more processors located within the vehicle configured to;

when the comparator circuit determines that the firmness data is less than the firmness threshold, 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 firmness data is greater than the firmness threshold, overwrite the first bookmark by replacing the first bookmark with 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;

wherein the remote server is remote from the vehicle.

2. The vehicle fingerprint bookmark system of claim 1, wherein the firmness value is expressed in newtons.

3. 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 firmness data for the fingerprint image are recorded by the scanner, the firmness data indicating a firmness value associated with the fingerprint image;

outputting, by the scanner, the fingerprint image to a remote server;

receiving, by the remote server, the fingerprint image;

initiating a search, by the remote server, to obtain a first bookmark for the fingerprint shown in the fingerprint image;

determining, by a comparator circuit coupled with the scanner, whether the firmness data associated with the fingerprint image is less than or greater than a firmness threshold, wherein the comparator circuit is located within the vehicle;

when the comparator circuit determines that the firmness data is less than the firmness threshold, configuring, by one or more processors located within the vehicle, 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 firmness data is greater than the firmness threshold, overwriting, by the one or more processors, the first bookmark by replacing the first bookmark with 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;

wherein the remote server is remote from the vehicle.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the firmness value is expressed in newtons.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

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