Cabin Usage Trend Presentation for Car Sharing Stop Locations

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need to understand the usage trends of vehicle cabins in car sharing systems to optimize their utilization and meet user preferences.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that registers position and purpose information of vehicle cabins, correlating this data to output trend information to user terminals, allowing users to make informed decisions based on usage patterns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If position information and purpose information are collected and correlated for each mobile body, then trend information representing usage patterns can be provided to users, but the system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveusage trend informationVSAvoidinformation processing system
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an information processing system that acts as an intermediary between mobile bodies (vehicles) and user terminals. This intermediary collects position information from GPS receivers and purpose information from input devices, correlates them in a database, and generates trend information. The intermediary handles the complexity of data collection, correlation, and analysis, keeping the overall system manageable while providing valuable usage trend information to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by collecting actual usage data (position and purpose information) from mobile bodies, processing this data to generate trend information, and then providing this feedback to users through user terminals. This feedback loop enables users to understand usage patterns and make informed decisions about cabin rentals, while the collected data continuously improves the accuracy of trend information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If detailed position and purpose information is registered for each mobile body, then accurate trend analysis can be performed, but the quantity of data to be processed and stored increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveusage trend accuracyVSAvoiddata volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential information needed for trend analysis: position information (from GPS receivers) and purpose information (from input devices). By focusing on extracting these specific data elements rather than collecting all possible vehicle data, the system achieves accurate trend analysis while keeping data volume manageable. The extraction process filters out unnecessary information while retaining the key parameters needed for meaningful usage pattern analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms raw position and purpose data into meaningful trend information by changing the parameters of data representation. Instead of storing and processing every raw data point, the system aggregates position information into geographic areas and purpose information into usage categories, then correlates these transformed parameters to generate trend statistics. This parameter transformation reduces data volume while maintaining analytical precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If the system provides comprehensive usage trend information to user terminals, then users can make better-informed decisions about cabin rentals, but the time and computational resources required for data processing increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser decision-makingVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously collecting and pre-processing position and purpose information from mobile bodies, maintaining an updated database of usage patterns. When a user requests trend information, the pre-processed data is already available for quick retrieval and presentation. This preliminary data preparation eliminates the need for time-consuming analysis at the moment of user inquiry, enabling fast response times while providing comprehensive trend information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12561735B2Information presentation method and information processing apparatus
Publication Date: 2026.02.24 PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYST CO LTD
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AI summary

An information presentation method is for outputting information related to a stop position of a mobile body to a user terminal in an information processing system for lending a cabin of the mobile body. The method includes registering position information representing a stop position of the mobile body, and registering purpose information representing a purpose of use of the cabin of the mobile body. The method also includes outputting, to the user terminal, trend information representing a trend of a purpose of use of the cabin in an area including the position information of mobile bodies. The trend information is output on the basis of correspondence information by which the position information of the mobile bodies is correlated with the purpose information of the mobile bodies.