Customer-centric portable personal seat comfort preferences
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsNilesh D. Mankame, Babak Makkinejad, Paul E. Krajewski
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Abstract
A method to operate a customer-centric portable personal vehicle seat position system includes: generating pressure sensor profiles in response to a user seated on a vehicle seat of a first vehicle having a seat base and a seat back; correlating the pressure sensor profiles to individual user tasks; performing data reduction of the pressure sensor profiles after correlation to the individual user tasks; and encoding. multiple seat comfort preference profiles.
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A method to operate a customer-centric portable personal vehicle seat position system, comprising:
- positioning, within a first vehicle, a first array of pressure sensors in a seat base of a first vehicle seat and a second array of pressure sensors in a seat back of the first vehicle seat;
- measuring first pressure distributions of a user in contact with the first vehicle seat using the first array of pressure sensors and the second array of pressure sensors;
- computing pressure profiles for a seat cushion and a seat back of the first vehicle seat;
- correlating the pressure sensor profiles to individual user tasks;
- performing data reduction of the pressure sensor profiles after correlation to the individual user tasks by creating a compact representation of the pressure profiles having a finite set of Fourier Shape Descriptors (FSDs) in a reduction model;
- encoding multiple seat comfort preference profiles by encoding the finite set as the comfort preference profile of the user for a first vehicle and storing the comfort preference profile in a user profile database;
- recalling the user profile database;
- forwarding the user profile database to a second vehicle;
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- adjusting a second vehicle seat of the second vehicle based on the user profile database.
A method to generate and use a customer-centric portable personal vehicle seat comfort preference profile, comprising:
- positioning, within a first vehicle, a first array of pressure sensors in a seat base of a first vehicle seat and a second array of pressure sensors in a seat back of the first vehicle seat;
- measuring first pressure distributions of a user in contact with the first vehicle seat using the first array of pressure sensors and the second array of pressure sensors;
- computing pressure profiles for a seat cushion and a seat back of the first vehicle seat;
- creating a compact representation of the pressure profiles having a finite set of Fourier Shape Descriptors (FSDs) in a reduction model;
- encoding the finite set as a comfort preference profile of the user for a first vehicle and storing the comfort preference profile in a user profile database located in one of the first vehicle or in a cloud retention system,
- recalling the user profile database;
- forwarding the user profile database to a second vehicle;
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- adjusting a second vehicle seat of the second vehicle based on the user profile database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.