Vehicle Occupant Information Using Real-Time Driver Color Profiling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicular routes face challenges due to heavy traffic, varying road quality, and a broad spectrum of vehicle operators and passengers with differing experiences and temperaments, making it difficult to anticipate driver behaviors and provide real-time information to enhance travel experiences.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to dynamically assess driver and passenger profiles, road conditions, and environmental factors, assigning color codes to vehicles to inform occupants of real-time operator disposition and adjust vehicle behavior for seamless navigation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If real-time driver profiling and color assignment systems are implemented, then information availability to occupants is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation availabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments information presentation into simplified color assignments (e.g., green, yellow, red) that represent complex driver profiles and behavioral patterns. This segmentation allows occupants to quickly understand driver characteristics without processing detailed data, thereby improving information availability while managing system complexity through hierarchical information structuring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The color assignment acts as an intermediary that translates complex driver profiling data into easily consumable visual information. The system uses these color indicators as mediators between the complex backend profiling engine and the end-users (occupants), allowing real-time information delivery without requiring complex interfaces or detailed data presentation to occupants.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Speed

If dynamic color assignments are communicated in real-time, then responsiveness to driver behavior changes is improved, but loss of time in data processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveresponsivenessVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary profiling of driver behaviors and patterns before actual transport trips occur. By pre-analyzing driver data and establishing baseline profiles, the system reduces real-time processing requirements during actual trips, enabling rapid color assignment updates without significant data processing delays during critical transport operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The color assignment system dynamically adapts to changing driver states by continuously monitoring behavioral patterns and adjusting color assignments in real-time. The system transitions from static pre-trip profiling to dynamic during-trip adjustments, allowing responsiveness to behavioral changes while optimizing processing time through incremental updates rather than complete re-analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12387598B2Automatic real time information to vehicular occupants
Publication Date: 2025.08.12 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A system, program product, and method for automatic collection, generation, and presentation of real time information to vehicular occupants are presented. The method includes determining a first driver profile for a first driver of a first vehicle. The method also includes determining, subject to the first driver profile determination, a color assignment for the first driver. The color assignment is at least partially indicative of the driver profile and the color assignment is at least a portion of a representation of the first driver. The method further includes communicating the color assignment to one or more of one or more potential occupants of the first vehicle and one or more occupants of the first vehicle.