Driving Assistance System Stop Position Estimation Filtering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing driving assistance systems face inaccuracies in estimating target stop positions due to variations in driving behaviors among individual drivers, leading to inconsistencies in aggregated stop position information.

Innovation Solution

A driving assistance system that integrates travel information from multiple vehicles, estimates a target stop position, and eliminates data from drivers with low convergence properties to improve accuracy by using a center that communicates with vehicles, processes travel data, and generates assistance information based on excellent driving features.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If stop position information from all vehicles is aggregated without filtering, then the quantity of data increases, but the accuracy of estimating target stop position deteriorates due to variations in driving behavior

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of stop position informationVSAvoidaccuracy of target stop position estimation
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and eliminates stop position information from vehicles whose driving behavior does not converge to the average behavior pattern. By removing these outlier data points while retaining the majority of aggregated data, the system maintains sufficient data quantity while improving estimation accuracy through selective extraction of relevant information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different quality standards to different data points based on their convergence properties. Instead of uniformly treating all stop position information, the system evaluates each vehicle's driving behavior convergence and selectively includes or excludes its data, thereby improving overall data quality while maintaining adequate quantity for accurate estimation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If strict filtering criteria are applied to eliminate low-convergence data, then the accuracy of target stop position estimation improves, but the loss of information increases due to elimination of valid stop position data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of target stop position estimationVSAvoidloss of stop position information
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the evaluation parameter from binary inclusion/exclusion to a convergence-based continuous assessment. By measuring how closely each vehicle's driving behavior converges to the average pattern, the system can make informed decisions about data inclusion, thereby minimizing information loss while maintaining high estimation accuracy through parameter-based differentiation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If all stop position information is used for aggregation, then the productivity of the system is maintained, but the reliability of the target stop position estimation deteriorates due to inconsistent driving behaviors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing speed of stop position informationVSAvoidreliability of target stop position estimation
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and removes stop position information from vehicles with non-convergent driving behavior before aggregation. This pre-filtering approach maintains processing efficiency by eliminating problematic data early in the workflow, while simultaneously improving reliability by ensuring that only consistent, high-quality data contributes to the final target stop position estimation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system evaluates driving behavior convergence and uses this evaluation to determine which data points to include in aggregation. This feedback loop ensures that only reliable data from vehicles with consistent driving patterns is processed, thereby maintaining both productivity and reliability in the target stop position estimation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9812014B2Driving assistance system for identifying stopping points
Publication Date: 2017.11.07 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A system for assisting vehicle driving includes a processor executing a process of assisting vehicle driving; and a memory. The process includes communicating with vehicles to obtain the travel information, storing the travel information in the memory; estimating a target stop position where the vehicle should stop based on the travel information; transmitting the target stop position to the vehicles-obtaining an index indicating at least one of repeatability of driving behavior of a driver, proximity of the behavior to an average value of others, and fuel consumption, determining a first driver corresponding to the index indicating a value less than a value determined based on the travel information of others; and eliminating a stop position information form the travel information stored in the memory, the stop position information indicating a stop position based on the travel information of the vehicle driven by the first driver.