Method and system of auto-adjusting vehicle settings

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016101749-A1
Application number	US-201514686361-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 14, 2015
Priority date	Oct 9, 2014
Publication date	Apr 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is a method of auto-adjusting the settings of a vehicle. The vehicle includes a first NFC device. The method includes: determining whether an electrical device is an authorized device through the first NFC device communicating with a second NFC device of the electrical device, the electrical device storing an identification information; obtaining a user's preference settings to the vehicle according to the identification information from the electrical device upon a condition that the electrical device is the authorized device; and adjusting the settings of the vehicle with the user's preference settings.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of auto-adjusting settings of a vehicle, the method comprising:
determining whether an electrical device is an authorized device, the electrical device storing identification information; if the electrical device is an authorized device; obtaining, from the electrical device, a user's preference settings of the vehicle according to the identification information; and adjusting the settings of the vehicle according to the user's preference settings.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user's preference settings is obtained from the electrical device.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user's preference settings is obtained from the vehicle.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle stores identification information of all authorized devices, the electrical device is determined to be the authorized device when the identification information from the electrical device matches the identification information stored in the vehicle.

5 . The method of claim 1 , comprising:
identifying the electrical device upon a condition that the electrical device is not the authorized device.

6 . The method of claim 5 , comprising:
storing the identification information of the electrical device in the vehicle and labeling the electrical device as the authorized device upon a condition that the electrical device is identified.

7 . The method of claim 5 , comprising:
performing a predetermined process of anti-theft upon a condition that the electrical device is not identified.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein after adjusting the settings of the vehicle with the user's preference settings, the method comprises:
determining whether the current settings of the vehicle are changed; and updating the user's preference settings with the changed settings upon a condition that the current settings of the vehicle are changed.

9 . A vehicle comprising:
a first NFC device; a processor; a display device; a storage device; and one or more programs that are stored in the storage device and are executed by the processor, the one or more programs comprising:
a first determination module that determines whether an electrical device is an authorized device, the electrical device storing an identification information; and
an adjustment module that obtains the identification information from the electrical device through the first NFC device and a second NFC device of the electrical device and changes the settings of the vehicle into a user's preference settings according to the identification information from the electrical device.

10 . The vehicle of claim 9 , wherein the one or more programs comprise an identification module that identifies the electrical device.

11 . The vehicle of claim 10 , wherein the identification module labels the electrical device as the authorized device and stores the identification information of the electrical device into the storage device when the electrical device is identified by the identification module.

12 . The vehicle of claim 10 , wherein the identification module performs a predetermined process of anti-theft when the electrical device fails to be identified by the identification module.

13 . The vehicle of claim 9 , wherein the one or more programs comprise an update module that determines whether the current settings of the vehicle is changed and updates the user's preference settings with the changed settings.

14 . The vehicle of claim 9 , wherein the one or more programs comprise:
a second determination module that determines whether the electrical device is mounted on or put inside the vehicle; and a third determination module that determines whether the engine of the vehicle is turned off when the electrical device is not detected by the second determination module.

15 . The vehicle of claim 14 , wherein the third determination module changes the settings of the vehicle back to default settings when the engine of the vehicle is detected to be turned off.

16 . The vehicle of claim 14 , wherein the third determination module informs the user that the electrical device is not detected when the engine of the vehicle is detected not to be turned off.

Assignees

• Chiun Mai Comm Systems Inc

Inventors

• Wu Ching-Yuan
• Kao Wei-Peng

Classifications

• B60R16/037 Primary

  for occupant comfort {, e.g. for automatic adjustment of appliances according to personal settings, e.g. seats, mirrors, steering wheel} · CPC title

• B60R25/00

  Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles (locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00) · CPC title

• B60R2325/103

  Near field communication [NFC] · CPC title