Forward Parking Behavior Analysis for RCTA Recommendation

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need to enhance the safety of vehicle users who tend to park forward, as conventional techniques do not effectively provide measures for ensuring safety when reversing out of a parking position.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that acquires the frequency of forward parking events per unit period and sends recommendations for Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) equipment when the frequency exceeds a threshold, assisting in reversing operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional techniques are used for detecting moving objects during reversing, then basic safety notification is provided, but the safety of users who tend to park forward is not effectively improved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety of userVSAvoideffectiveness for forward parking users
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of parking behavior patterns before reversing operations occur. By acquiring parking position information over time and determining whether the vehicle tends to park forward, the system proactively identifies users who need enhanced safety measures, rather than merely reacting to reversing events as conventional techniques do

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback loop where parking behavior data is continuously collected, analyzed, and used to adjust safety notifications. When the vehicle is determined to have a forward parking tendency, the system provides enhanced notifications about moving objects during reversing, creating adaptive feedback that improves safety based on actual user behavior patterns

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If RCTA equipment is recommended to all users, then safety for forward parking users is improved, but unnecessary equipment recommendations are provided to other users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety during reversingVSAvoidaccuracy of equipment recommendation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different notification strategies to different user groups based on their specific parking behavior characteristics. Instead of uniformly recommending RCTA equipment to all users, the system selectively provides enhanced safety notifications only to vehicles determined to have a forward parking tendency, making the safety measure locally optimized for the specific user group that needs it

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20240257581A1Information processing device
Publication Date: 2024.08.01 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A control unit of an information processing device acquires a first frequency that is a frequency of forward parking events of a first vehicle per unit period. When the first frequency is equal to or greater than a first threshold, the control unit of the information processing device sends first information on first equipment to a first terminal associated with a user of the first vehicle. The first equipment is equipment that assists in a driving operation for driving out the forward parked first vehicle in reverse and that is mountable on the first vehicle.