Abnormality Notification Routing for Targeted Vehicle Alerts

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for notifying abnormalities in vehicles and drones fail to appropriately target notification destinations based on the type of abnormality, leading to inefficient communication and increased processing loads, as well as inadequate external notification.

Innovation Solution

A notification apparatus and method that detects abnormalities and determines specific notification destinations based on the type of abnormality, using a combination of detection units and a determination unit to generate and transmit targeted abnormality notification messages to appropriate geographical areas or IP addresses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If notification is made to all vehicles on the periphery regardless of abnormality type, then safety notification coverage is improved, but communication load and processing burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety notification coverageVSAvoidcommunication load
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The notification system segments abnormality types into security abnormalities and safety abnormalities, and further divides notification destinations into wide-area destinations (for security) and periphery destinations (for safety). This segmentation allows targeted notification to appropriate destinations based on abnormality type, reducing unnecessary communication load while maintaining comprehensive safety coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If communication output is increased independently of abnormality type, then notification reliability is improved, but processing load on receiving vehicles increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenotification reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing load
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different notification strategies based on the local quality (type) of abnormality. For security abnormalities, wide-area notification with higher output is applied. For safety abnormalities, periphery notification with appropriate output is applied. This localized approach ensures reliable notification without uniformly increasing processing load on all receiving vehicles.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If only periphery vehicles are notified of abnormalities, then communication efficiency is improved, but notification coverage for non-periphery partners deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidnotification coverage
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The notification system dynamically adjusts the notification destination based on the type of abnormality detected. For security abnormalities affecting the mounting apparatus, wide-area notification is activated to reach non-periphery partners. For safety abnormalities, periphery notification suffices. This dynamic adjustment maintains communication efficiency while ensuring appropriate notification coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20240017732A1Notification apparatus, notification method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.01.18 CANON KK
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AI summary

A notification apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect an abnormality in a mounting apparatus with the notification apparatus mounted therein, and a notification unit configured to notify an external notification destination decided in accordance with the abnormality detected by the detection unit of the abnormality.