Unified Fleet Appearance Control via Environmental Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a technology that can unify the external appearances of multiple movable objects, such as vehicles, to create a cohesive visual identity in various environments, considering factors like location, weather, and user demographics, while they provide multiple services like product sales and labor services.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device and method that acquires environmental information from sensors mounted on the vehicles, including cameras, thermo-hygro sensors, and illuminance sensors, to decide on the display content for external display units, ensuring a unified external appearance across multiple vehicles based on the environment and user attributes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each movable object displays its own independent external appearance, then each object can independently express its function, but the overall visual unity and cohesive identity of the fleet is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the external appearance management of multiple movable objects by establishing a centralized management server that controls display content across all vehicles. The server receives environment information from each vehicle and issues unified display instructions, combining individual display capabilities into a cohesive fleet-wide visual identity while preserving each vehicle's independent display hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The management server performs multiple functions: collecting environment information from sensors on each vehicle, processing this information to determine appropriate display content, and distributing unified instructions to all vehicles. This universal control mechanism enables the fleet to adapt to various environments while maintaining visual unity through a single multi-functional management system.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the external appearance is dynamically changed according to environment, then the service appeal and adaptability improve, but the complexity of managing and coordinating these changes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The management server acts as an intermediary between the environment information sources (sensors on vehicles) and the display execution (display units on vehicles). It receives environment data, processes it according to predetermined rules, and issues standardized instructions, simplifying the management complexity by centralizing the decision-making logic.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously collecting environment information from sensors on each vehicle and using this information to dynamically adjust display content. The management server receives real-time environmental data and issues updated display instructions, creating a closed-loop system that adapts to changing conditions while maintaining manageable complexity through automated processing.
3Stability of the object's composition
If display content is unified across all movable objects, then visual cohesion is achieved, but the ability to respond to local environmental differences is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by allowing each vehicle to collect and process environment information specific to its local surroundings. While the management server coordinates overall visual unity, each vehicle's display content is tailored to its specific environmental conditions (weather, time of day, location), achieving both cohesion and local adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the display control into two levels: centralized coordination by the management server that ensures visual unity across the fleet, and localized adaptation where each vehicle processes its own environment information to determine specific display content. This segmentation allows both unified appearance and local environmental response.
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AI summary
An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring information indicating an environment surrounding a place where a plurality of movable objects is disposed, the plurality of movable objects including display units that display a picture to configure an external appearance; deciding a display content of the picture to be displayed by the display units included in the plurality of movable objects, depending on the information indicating the environment surrounding the place; and giving an instruction to cause the display units to display the picture having the decided display content, to the plurality of movable objects disposed at an area surrounding the place.