NORTHVILLE – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has introduced its Predictive HMI system that predicts a car driver?s needs to better safely and easily operate the vehicle equipment.
It does so in one or two quick steps.
Mitsubishi Electric?s highly intelligent human-machine interface technology bases its predictions on operational history and current conditions. This way it can minimize the steps and time required to operate the vehicle?s four primary on-board devices: the navigation system, phone, air conditioner and audio-visual equipment.
Operational history covers past destinations and routes, navigational searches and in-car device usage. Current conditions include vehicle location, speed, and fuel level, as well as real-time traffic, school zones, and other road and driving conditions.
A prediction algorithm precisely estimates the driver?s three most likely operations for the four primary devices and displays them on a head-up display (HUD) positioned above the dashboard, directly in front of the driver. For example, if the driver hasn?t entered a destination, but the system predicts that the driver is heading home, the algorithm can detect that there is traffic on the route, and then prompt the user to take alternative routes. The driver can quickly call up this information through the navigation system and display it on the HUD. If the driver wants a different function, separate feature buttons provide direct access to each of the four devices.
Mitsubishi Electric?s newly developed HUD appears farther away from the driver than most displays, which helps to minimize eye movements and refocusing as the driver looks alternately at the road and the display. The HUD incorporates a large 17.2-inch display with brightness of up to 13,000 cd/m2 for safe, easy operation of in-car devices.
Voice operation also is possible with a ?Touch & Voice HMI,? supported by voice-recognition technology. Touch & Voice HMI enables operations to be completed within two operations and 15 seconds, compared to 10 operations that can take as long as 90 seconds in conventional systems. The voice-recognition technology uses locally stored navigation data and cloud-stored destination data covering 10 million up-to-date locations for accurate recognition of voice commands.
