Guest Room Vehicle Layout Control for Privacy and Scenic Views

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for arranging multiple units in resort hotels do not consider user privacy or scenery when positioning vehicles used as guest rooms.

Innovation Solution

A server communicably connected to vehicles usable as guest rooms, which includes a controller that adjusts the positional relationship of windows and doors, as well as the orientation based on scenery, to ensure privacy and enhance user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If vehicles are arranged without considering window positions or scenery, then arrangement simplicity is improved, but user privacy and scenery quality deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvearrangement simplicityVSAvoidprivacy violation and poor scenery

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameters of vehicle arrangement by considering window positions and scenic directions as key variables. The server calculates optimal arrangement patterns that satisfy privacy requirements (windows not facing each other) and scenery requirements (windows facing pleasant views), transforming the arrangement from a simple positioning task to an optimized configuration based on multiple parameters.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by evaluating arrangement patterns against privacy and scenery criteria. The server receives information about window positions and scenic directions, processes this feedback to determine compliance with requirements, and adjusts arrangements accordingly to achieve both privacy protection and scenic quality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Object-affected harmful factors

If vehicles are arranged to maximize privacy and scenery consideration, then user satisfaction is improved, but arrangement complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprivacy and scenery qualityVSAvoidarrangement complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by allowing vehicles to automatically provide information about their window positions and scenic directions to the server. Each vehicle acts as an information source that contributes to the overall arrangement optimization, reducing the need for manual intervention while achieving complex arrangement goals.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The server performs multiple functions simultaneously: it collects vehicle information, calculates arrangement patterns, evaluates privacy compliance, assesses scenery quality, and determines final positioning. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into a single universal arrangement management platform.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11630466B2Server, information processing system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and control method

Publication Date: 2023.04.18 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK

AI summary

A server is communicably connected to a plurality of vehicles that includes vehicles usable as guest rooms, and includes a server controller. The server controller is configured to control a formation of the plurality of vehicles depending on a positional relationship between windows or doors provided in the plurality of vehicles, or depending on scenery from the windows provided in the plurality of vehicles.