Auxiliary Driving Prompts Timed by Navigation and Environment Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing navigation systems fail to provide precise and timely auxiliary prompts based on both navigation and environmental information, leading to potential collisions and inefficient driving experiences due to inaccurate or untimely guidance.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that determine the type and output time of auxiliary prompts using navigation and environment information, ensuring safe and efficient driving by integrating roadside devices, vehicle sensors, and a navigation application to provide targeted prompts at optimal times, such as lane changes or decelerations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If navigation information alone is used for guidance, then the system complexity is low, but the guidance precision and timeliness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveguidance precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines navigation information with environment information from multiple sensors (cameras, radar, lidar) to create a comprehensive guidance system. This merging of information sources resolves the contradiction by achieving high guidance precision through multi-source data integration while managing system complexity through coordinated processing of combined inputs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of both navigation and environment information to determine in advance whether auxiliary prompt information is needed. By pre-processing and comparing data sources before generating prompts, the system achieves timely and precise guidance while optimizing computational efficiency and managing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If auxiliary prompt information is provided continuously, then the user experience improves, but the information loss increases due to excessive or irrelevant prompts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experienceVSAvoidinformation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by providing auxiliary prompt information selectively based on specific conditions and contexts. Rather than continuous uniform prompting, the system determines whether prompts are needed based on local environmental factors and navigation requirements, ensuring prompts are provided only where and when necessary for optimal user experience without information overload.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If the output time of auxiliary prompts is delayed, then the system reliability improves, but the productivity deteriorates due to late guidance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem reliabilityVSAvoiddriving efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary determination of whether auxiliary prompts are needed by analyzing navigation and environment information in advance. This pre-assessment allows the system to output prompts at the optimal moment - early enough to maintain driving efficiency but timed precisely to ensure system reliability and avoid premature or late guidance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12377848B2Method of outputting prompt information, device, medium, and vehicle
Publication Date: 2025.08.05 BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A method of outputting a prompt information, a device, a medium, and a vehicle, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence, in particular to a field of assisted driving, a field of intelligent transportation and a field of computer vision. The method of outputting the prompt information may include: determining a type of an auxiliary prompt information in response to a determination that the auxiliary prompt information is required to be output, wherein the determination that the auxiliary prompt information is required to be output is performed according to a navigation information and an environment information; determining an output time of the auxiliary prompt information according to the type of the auxiliary prompt information; and outputting the auxiliary prompt information in response to the output time being reached.