User interface and virtual personality presentation based on user profile

Abstract

Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system that provides various outputs based on a user profile and determined context. An output provided by the present disclosure can change a configuration of a vehicle, device, building, and/or a system associated with the user profile. The configurations can include comfort and interface settings that can be adjusted based on the user profile information. Further, the user profiles can track health data related to the user and make adjustments to the configuration to assist the health of the user.

1 . A method, comprising:
 determining a presence of a user inside a vehicle;   determining an identity of the user;   retrieving, in response to determining the identity of the user, a user profile associated with the user, wherein the user profile includes a virtual personality corresponding to a personality of the vehicle, and wherein the virtual personality is configured based at least partially on preferences of the user;   receiving input provided by the user, the input having a context associated therewith; and   retrieving, based at least partially on the input provided by the user, the virtual personality from the user profile associated with the user for presentation to at least one device associated with the vehicle.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein determining the presence of the user inside the vehicle further comprises:
 detecting a person via at least one image sensor associated with the vehicle.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:
 identifying facial features associated with the person detected via the at least one image sensor; and   determining whether the identified facial features associated with the person match user characteristics stored in a memory.   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , wherein the identified facial features associated with the person do not match the user characteristics stored in the memory, and wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:
 prompting the user for identification information;   receiving identification information from the user;   storing the identification information received from the user in the memory; and   generating, in response to receiving the identification information from the user, a new virtual personality for user.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 3 , wherein the identified facial features associated with the person match the user characteristics stored in the memory, wherein the virtual personality is retrieved from the user profile stored in a memory of a smartphone, and wherein the smartphone is associated with the user. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein receiving the input provided by the user further comprises:
 determining the context of the input, wherein the context corresponds to an emotional state of the user.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , wherein retrieving the virtual personality for presentation to at least one device further comprises:
 determining, based at least partially on the context of the input, a content of the virtual personality to suit the emotional state of the user.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , further comprising:
 comparing the determined content of the virtual personality with emotional information in a user profile virtual personality; and   generating, when the determined content of the virtual personality differs from the emotional information in the user profile virtual personality, an adjusted user profile virtual personality for presentation, wherein the adjusted user profile includes the content to suit the emotional state of the user.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 7 , further comprising:
 presenting the virtual personality having the content to suit the emotional state of the user, wherein the content of the virtual personality includes an opposite emotional state to the emotional state of the user.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the virtual personality includes at least one of an avatar, a voice output, a visual output, a tone, and a volume intensity. 
     
     
         11 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, perform a method comprising:
 determining a presence of a user inside a vehicle;   determining an identity of the user;   retrieving, in response to determining the identity of the user, a user profile associated with the user, wherein the user profile includes a virtual personality corresponding to a personality of the vehicle, and wherein the virtual personality is configured based at least partially on preferences of the user;   receiving input provided by the user, the input having a context associated therewith; and   retrieving, based at least partially on the input provided by the user, the virtual personality from the user profile associated with the user for presentation to at least one device associated with the vehicle.   
     
     
         12 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 11 , wherein determining the presence of the user inside the vehicle further comprises:
 detecting a person via at least one image sensor associated with the vehicle.   
     
     
         13 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 12 , wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:
 identifying facial features associated with the person detected via the at least one image sensor; and   determining whether the identified facial features associated with the person match user characteristics stored in a memory.   
     
     
         14 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 13 , wherein the identified facial features associated with the person do not match the user characteristics stored in the memory, and wherein determining the identity of the user further comprises:
 prompting the user for identification information;   receiving identification information from the user; and   storing the identification information received from the user in the memory; and   generating, in response to receiving the identification information from the user, a new virtual personality for user.   
     
     
         15 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 13 , wherein the identified facial features associated with the person match the user characteristics stored in the memory, wherein the virtual personality is retrieved from the user profile stored in a memory of a smartphone, and wherein the smartphone is associated with the user. 
     
     
         16 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 11 , wherein receiving the input provided by the user further comprises:
 determining the context of the input, wherein the context corresponds to an emotional state of the user.   
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 16 , wherein retrieving the virtual personality for presentation to at least one device further comprises:
 determining, based at least partially on the context of the input, a content of the virtual personality to suit the emotional state of the user.   
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of  claim 17 , wherein the method further comprises:
 comparing the determined content of the virtual personality with emotional information in a user profile virtual personality; and   generating, when the determined content of the virtual personality differs from the emotional information in the user profile virtual personality, an adjusted user profile virtual personality for presentation, wherein the adjusted user profile includes the content to suit the emotional state of the user.   
     
     
         19 . A vehicle control system, comprising:
 a personality module contained in a memory and executed by a processor of the vehicle control system, the personality module configured to determine a presence of a user inside a vehicle; determine an identity of the user, retrieve, in response to determining the identity of the user, a user profile associated with the user, wherein the user profile includes a virtual personality corresponding to a personality of the vehicle, and wherein the virtual personality is configured based at least partially on preferences of the user, receive input provided by the user, the input having a context associated therewith, and retrieve, based at least partially on the input provided by the user, the virtual personality from the user profile associated with the user for presentation to at least one device associated with the vehicle.   
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 19 , wherein receiving the input provided by the user further comprises determining the context of the input, wherein the context corresponds to an emotional state of the user, and wherein retrieving the virtual personality for presentation to at least one device further comprises determining, based at least partially on the context of the input, a content of the virtual personality to suit the emotional state of the user.