Agent Terminal Vehicle Identification for Personalized Responses

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information providing systems struggle to deliver appropriate responses to occupants in different vehicles when a single agent terminal is installed across multiple vehicles.

Innovation Solution

An information providing apparatus and method that includes a movement related information acquisition unit, a moving body identifying information acquiring unit, and an information output unit. This apparatus acquires movement-related information specific to each moving body, identifies the moving body, and outputs provision information based on this information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single agent terminal is installed across multiple vehicles to learn preferences of each individual, then the system can provide personalized responses for authenticated individuals, but it becomes difficult to make appropriate responses for occupants in each of different vehicles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalized response capabilityVSAvoidvehicle-specific information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the information storage by creating separate storage areas for each vehicle, with each storage area containing vehicle identification information and movement-related information specific to that vehicle. This allows the agent terminal to distinguish between different vehicles and retrieve appropriate information for each one, resolving the contradiction between providing personalized responses and maintaining vehicle-specific information integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If movement-related information is stored in association with each moving body to enable appropriate information provision, then the system can deliver tailored experiences for each vehicle, but the system complexity increases to manage multiple information sets

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle-specific information provisionVSAvoidinformation management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the vehicle identification information and movement-related information into a unified storage structure where both types of information are stored together in corresponding storage areas. This integration simplifies information retrieval by allowing the system to access both vehicle identity and its associated movement patterns through a single storage access operation, reducing the complexity of managing multiple separate information sets.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20250198771A1Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and program
Publication Date: 2025.06.19 PIONEER IP
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AI summary

The information providing apparatus according to the present invention is an information providing apparatus which can be installed in a plurality of moving bodies, and comprises: a movement related information acquisition unit configured to acquire movement related information which is information relating to movement of one moving body and which is information stored in association with the one moving body; a moving body-identifying information acquiring unit configured to acquire moving body-identifying information which is information useful for identifying a moving body in which the information providing apparatus is currently installed; an information output unit configured to output provision information based on the movement related information associated with the one moving body.