Vehicle Impact Video Sharing for Faster Incident Evidence
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Solution Overview
Problem
Obtaining information about vehicle impact events is difficult in the absence of bystanders, leading to conflicting accounts and challenges in liability, law enforcement, and insurance claims.
Innovation Solution
Vehicles utilize sensors to request and share video content from nearby vehicles, user devices, and security cameras to gather additional details about the impact event, providing users with context menus for appropriate actions and enabling communication with first responders.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If video content is requested from all nearby vehicles and user devices, then information completeness about the impact event is improved, but communication network load and response time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the information gathering process by first requesting video content from a limited set of nearby vehicles and user devices within a predetermined area, then progressively expanding the request scope if needed. This segmentation allows the system to balance information completeness with response time by not immediately querying all possible sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements partial action by initially requesting video content only from devices within a predetermined radius of the impact location, rather than all possible devices. This partial approach suffices for most cases while significantly reducing network load and response time, with the option to expand to excessive action (broader requests) if information completeness is insufficient.
2Loss of time
If video content is requested from a predetermined area only, then response time and network load are reduced, but information completeness may be insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the request scope based on the quality and completeness of received video content. If the initial predetermined area provides sufficient information, the process stops. If not, the system dynamically expands the request to include broader areas, ensuring information completeness while minimizing unnecessary network load.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the received video content quality and completeness to determine whether to expand the request scope. If the feedback indicates insufficient information from the predetermined area, the system triggers an expanded information gathering phase, thereby balancing response time with information completeness.
3Loss of information
If multiple sensors and communication systems are integrated in the vehicle, then information gathering capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle's processing circuitry is designed with multi-functionality, serving as both an impact detector, video requester, video receiver, and user interface controller. This universality consolidates multiple functions into a single integrated system, improving information gathering capability while managing device complexity through functional consolidation rather than proliferation of separate components.
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AI summary
Methods and systems are provided to generate instructions and share video content following an impact event. They include detecting an impact event associated with a vehicle and transmitting a request to at least one video recording device within an area of interest from the vehicle. They further include receiving video content captured within a time period around the impact event from at least one video recording device. Methods and systems are also provided to generate useful information following an impact event including detecting an impact event associated with a vehicle and determining one or more contextual parameters associated with the impact event. They further include generating display content based on the one or more contextual parameters and displaying the generated display content on a screen within the vehicle.