Adaptive Rear Lateral Side Warning Apparatus with Learning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional rear lateral side warning systems do not adapt to individual drivers' patterns, leading to inconvenience as they provide uniform warnings regardless of the driver's specific conditions, potentially causing discomfort and inefficiency.

Innovation Solution

A rear lateral side warning apparatus and method that learns a driver's pattern by using a detection unit to gather information from sensors, calculates a warning index based on blind spot, lane change, and rear-end collision warnings, and determines whether to generate a warning signal, allowing for adaptive control and personalized alerts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional rear lateral side warning system provides predetermined warnings to all drivers uniformly, then the system structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the system does not adapt to individual driving patterns causing driver inconvenience and discomfort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to driving patternVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary learning of driving patterns during a learning period before providing adaptive warnings. The control unit accumulates driving information and learns the driver's pattern in advance, allowing the system to transition from uniform predetermined warnings to personalized adaptive warnings without requiring complex real-time processing during critical warning situations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring driving information and using it to adjust warning behavior. The control unit learns from accumulated driving data and modifies warning issuance based on the learned driving pattern, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to individual driver behavior while maintaining manageable complexity through iterative learning

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If the system issues warnings based on predetermined conditions without considering driving patterns, then the system is easy to operate, but it causes unnecessary warnings when drivers determine they are not in danger

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewarning accuracyVSAvoidsystem operation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary learning of driving patterns during a learning period before providing adaptive warnings. The control unit accumulates driving information and learns the driver's pattern in advance, allowing the system to transition from uniform predetermined warnings to personalized adaptive warnings without requiring complex real-time processing during critical warning situations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring driving information and using it to adjust warning behavior. The control unit learns from accumulated driving data and modifies warning issuance based on the learned driving pattern, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to individual driver behavior while maintaining manageable complexity through iterative learning

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3531398B1Rear lateral side warning apparatus and method with learning of driving pattern
Publication Date: 2022.08.24 HL KLEMOVE CORP
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AI summary

Provided are a rear lateral side warning apparatus and method adaptable to a driving pattern. The rear lateral side warning apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a driving condition of a vehicle and a driving state of the vehicle, a control unit configured to learn a driving pattern on the basis of driving information regarding one or more of blind spot warnings, lane change warnings, and rear-end collision warning which are accumulated in the vehicle, calculate a warning index obtained by assigning a weight to the driving information, and determine whether to generate a warning signal using the warning index, and an output unit configured to output the warning signal against at least one of a bind spot, a lane change, and a rear-end collision of the vehicle.