Seat state correction system, seat state correction method, and seat state correction program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016239175-A1
Application number	US-201415026209-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 21, 2014
Priority date	Oct 31, 2013
Publication date	Aug 18, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Seat state correction systems, methods, and programs access suitable figure information in which a suitable figure and a state of a seat of a vehicle are correlated with each other. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a suitable figure that suits a current state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information, the acquired suitable figure representing a recommended driving posture for a user seated on the seat and display, on a touch panel display, an image that indicates the acquired suitable figure. The systems, methods, and programs receive figure correction information through contact on the touch panel display, the figure correction information indicating a correction of the displayed suitable figure and correct the state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information so as to achieve a state of the seat corresponding to the corrected displayed suitable figure.

First claim

1 . A seat state correction system comprising:
a memory; and a processor programmed to:
access suitable figure information in which a suitable figure and a state of a seat of a vehicle are correlated with each other;
acquire a suitable figure that suits a current state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information, the acquired suitable figure representing a recommended driving posture for a user seated on the seat;
display, on a touch panel display, an image that indicates the acquired suitable figure;
received figure correction information through contact on the touch panel display, the figure correction information indicating a correction of the displayed suitable figure; and
correct state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information so as to achieve a state of the seat corresponding to the corrected displayed suitable figure.

2 . The seat state correction system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor programmed to:
receive correction of a size of each part of a body of the user as the figure correction.

3 . The seat state correction system according to claim 2 , wherein the processor is programmed to:
receive a correction of the size of each part of the body of the user in the image which indicates the suitable figure as the figure correction.

4 . The seat state correction system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is programmed to:
display, on the touch panel display, a plurality of alternatives with different positional relationships between an object to be operated in a cabin of the vehicle and a part of a body of the user; and receive a choice of one of the displayed alternatives as the figure correction.

5 . The seat state correction system according to claim 1 , comprising:
a memory that stores road attribute correlation information in which a state of the seat and a road attribute of a road traveled on by the vehicle with the seat in the state are correlated with each other; wherein the processor is programmed to:
display, on the touch panel display, road attributes correlated with the road attribute correlation information stored in the storage medium as alternatives;
receive a choice of one of the displayed alternatives; and
receive the state of the seat indicated by the road attribute correlation information correlated with the selected road attribute as the figure correction.

6 . The seat state correction system according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is programmed to:
specify, on the basis of a preceding travel history of the vehicle, a main road attribute of a road traveled on in a preceding travel; and store, in the memory, the specified road attribute and the current state of the seat in correlation with each other as the road attribute correlation information.

7 . A seat state correction method comprising:
accessing suitable figure information in which a suitable figure and a state of a seat of a vehicle are correlated with each other; acquiring a suitable figure that suits a current state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information, the acquired suitable figure representing a recommended driving posture for a user seated on the seat; displaying, on a touch panel display, an image that indicates the acquired suitable figure; receiving figure correction information through contact on the touch panel display, the figure correction information indicating a correction of the displayed suitable figure; and correcting the state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information so as to achieve a state of the seat corresponding to the corrected displayed suitable figure.

8 . A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable seat state correction program that causes a computer to implement the following functions:
accessing suitable figure information in which a suitable figure and a state of a seat of a vehicle are correlated with each other; acquiring a suitable figure that suits a current state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information, the acquired suitable figure representing a recommended driving posture for a user seated on the seat; displaying, on a touch panel display, an image that indicates the acquired suitable figure; receiving figure correction information through contact on the touch panel display, the figure correction information indicating a correction of the displayed suitable figure; and correcting the state of the seat on the basis of the accessed suitable figure information so as to achieve a state of the seat corresponding to the corrected displayed suitable figure.

Assignees

• Aisin Aw Co

Inventors

• Suzuki Yukiyoshi
• Kubota Tomoki

Classifications

• B60N2/0244

  with logic circuits · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F3/0488 Primary

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• B60R16/037

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