Automated Driving Package Selection via Rejection Count Threshold

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional vehicle automated driving systems do not allow drivers to freely set permissions for individual driving assistance operations, making it difficult to avoid unnecessary operations, especially in varying environmental conditions, which complicates the driver's interaction with the system.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle automated driving system that includes a surrounding environment information acquiring device, vehicle information acquiring device, driver information acquiring device, package selecting part, package proposing part, automated driving executing part, and rejection count detecting part, allowing drivers to easily set permissions for driving assistance operations based on their preferences and environmental conditions by selecting and approving driving assistance packages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If drivers can freely set permissions for individual driving assistance operations, then the adaptability to driver preferences and environmental conditions is improved, but the device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to driver preferencesVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments driving assistance operations into discrete selectable items (e.g., lane keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, automatic parking) that can be individually enabled or disabled. This segmentation allows drivers to customize their automated driving experience by choosing only the features they need, rather than dealing with a monolithic system that either enables all features or none.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring packages of driving assistance operations that can be selected as groups. This allows drivers to efficiently enable or disable multiple related features simultaneously through a single selection, reducing the complexity of individual feature management while maintaining customization capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If drivers can freely set permissions for individual driving assistance operations, then the adaptability to driver preferences is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to driver preferencesVSAvoidease of setting permissions
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges related driving assistance operations into selectable packages or bundles (e.g., combining lane keeping, speed control, and steering assist into a comprehensive lane assistance package). This merging allows drivers to enable or disable multiple related features through a single action, significantly improving ease of operation while maintaining the ability to customize the automated driving system to their preferences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11685393B2Vehicle automated driving system
Publication Date: 2023.06.27 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A vehicle automated driving system 100 comprises a surrounding environment information acquiring device 10, a vehicle information acquiring device 20, a driver information acquiring device 30, a package selecting part 90, a package proposing part 91, an automated driving executing part 92, and a rejection count detecting part 93. The package selecting part determines the driving assistance package based on at least one of the surrounding environment information, the vehicle information, and the driver information, selects the determined driving assistance package if the rejection count of the determined driving assistance package is less than a predetermined threshold value, and selects a driving assistance package different from the determined driving assistance package if the rejection count of the determined driving assistance package is the threshold value or more.