Integrated Map Synchronization for Passenger Driver Route Clarity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing travel route instructing systems often fail to provide a user-friendly interface for passengers to accurately instruct taxi or ride-sharing drivers when the maps and routes displayed on passenger and driver terminals differ, leading to potential confusion and inefficiency.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that synchronizes maps and routes between passenger and driver terminals, using integrated map and route synchronization units to display a common integrated map and route, allowing for real-time modifications and updates based on additional information, ensuring both parties have a consistent and advanced understanding of the route.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If separate maps are displayed on passenger and driver terminals, then each terminal can display map information independently, but the maps may differ causing confusion and communication difficulty

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemap compatibilityVSAvoidroute instruction clarity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the map display functions by synchronizing the maps between passenger and driver terminals. The integrated map synchronization unit combines map data from both terminals to display a unified map that is consistent on both devices, eliminating discrepancies and improving communication efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback through continuous synchronization of map data between terminals. When map information is updated on one terminal, the change is reflected on the other terminal through the synchronization mechanism, ensuring both users always view the latest consistent map data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If separate routes are displayed on passenger and driver terminals, then each terminal can independently calculate routes, but route differences make it difficult for passengers to instruct drivers accurately

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveroute calculation flexibilityVSAvoidroute information consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated route synchronization unit merges route information from both terminals by synchronizing the routes displayed on passenger and driver terminals. This ensures both users view the same route information, eliminating discrepancies and improving communication efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback through continuous synchronization of route data between terminals. When route information is updated on one terminal, the change is reflected on the other terminal through the synchronization mechanism, ensuring both users always view the latest consistent route data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Device complexity

If map and route data are not synchronized between terminals, then each terminal maintains independent data, but this leads to potential misunderstandings and inefficiency

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata management simplicityVSAvoidinformation sharing accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback through continuous synchronization of map and route data between terminals. When data is updated on one terminal, the synchronization mechanism automatically reflects these changes on the other terminal, ensuring both users always view the latest consistent data without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The synchronization units act as intermediaries between the two terminals. These units coordinate and manage the data exchange process, ensuring that map and route information is consistently synchronized between passenger and driver terminals without requiring direct complex data management between the terminals themselves.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20230408267A1Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing program

Publication Date: 2023.12.21 SONY GROUP CORP

AI summary

[Object] To provide an information processing system that enables a passenger to give an appropriate instruction about a route to a driver.[Solving Means] An information processing system includes: a first information processing terminal that includes a first display apparatus and is configured to display on the first display apparatus a first map and a first route from a current location to a destination in a superimposed manner, the first map being created using a first creation system; a second information processing terminal that is capable of communicating with the first information processing terminal, includes a second display apparatus, and is configured to display on the second display apparatus a second map and a second route from the current location to the destination in a superimposed manner, the second map being created by a second creation system; an integrated map synchronization unit that displays an integrated map, synchronized between the first display apparatus and the second display apparatus, the integrated map being a map obtained by integrating the first map and the second map; and an integrated route synchronization unit that displays an integrated route, synchronized between the first display apparatus and the second display apparatus, the integrated route being a route obtained by integrating the first route and the second route.