Image Controller Signature Checks Tuned to Vehicle Speed

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing autonomous driving systems are vulnerable to hacking, where third-party interference with sensor data can lead to incorrect vehicle control decisions, posing a significant safety risk, and current image integrity checks consume excessive power regardless of vehicle speed.

Innovation Solution

A controller system that adjusts the frequency of image integrity checks based on vehicle speed, optimizing power consumption while ensuring reliable image data integrity through a vehicle speed-dependent checking period.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If image integrity checks are performed at high frequency to ensure safety, then reliability is improved, but power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage data integrityVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the integrity checking frequency variable rather than fixed. The checking period is dynamically adjusted based on vehicle speed: at high speeds where image data is more critical for safety, checking frequency increases; at low speeds, checking frequency decreases. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by optimizing the balance between reliability and power consumption according to actual operational conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of checking period based on vehicle speed. By establishing a correspondence between speed ranges and checking periods (shorter periods at high speeds, longer periods at low speeds), the system adjusts the intensity of integrity verification to match the criticality of image data at different operating conditions, thereby reducing unnecessary power consumption while maintaining safety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If image integrity checks are performed frequently to detect hacking, then reliability is improved, but loss of time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage data integrityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the checking period based on vehicle speed, performing more frequent checks when the vehicle is moving fast (where image data is more critical) and less frequent checks when moving slow. This dynamic approach ensures that time is not wasted on excessive checking during low-risk conditions while maintaining adequate security during high-risk conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

By changing the checking period parameter according to speed thresholds, the system optimizes the trade-off between detection capability and time consumption. The parameter adjustment ensures that integrity verification is performed at appropriate frequencies matching the actual safety requirements at different speeds.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12427999B2Controller for processing image data, image processing system including controller, and method of operating controller
Publication Date: 2025.09.30 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method of operating a controller for processing image data includes receiving, from an image sensor, image data having successive frames and a signature value of the image data, and verifying the signature value using a vehicle speed. The verifying the signature value includes determining a checking period determined according to the vehicle speed, and verifying a signature value of a frame determined from among the successive frames according to the checking period.