Intersection Image Frame System for Vehicle Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current intelligent transportation systems (ITS) provide limited traffic information to vehicle drivers, especially when approaching intersections, as they cannot effectively convey detailed information about intersecting roads due to obstructed views, hindering safe driving by not providing comprehensive visual data on approaching vehicles, pedestrians, or potential drive hazards.
Innovation Solution
A system that interworks with multiple photographing apparatuses to convert images into frames with intersection coordinates, determining vehicle entry into intersections, and extracting relevant image information for display on vehicle terminals, providing a comprehensive view of intersecting road situations before the vehicle reaches the intersection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a driver uses only direct visual confirmation for straight direction traffic, then the driver can confirm the situation directly, but the driver cannot confirm intersected road situations due to buildings and obstacles blocking the view
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of photographing apparatuses installed at intersections and a server that processes and transmits image data to vehicle terminals. This intermediary system bridges the gap between the driver's limited direct view and the need for comprehensive intersection awareness, allowing drivers to see intersected road situations that would otherwise be blocked by buildings and obstacles
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing images of the intersection environment in advance using photographing apparatuses before the vehicle arrives. The server pre-processes these images to extract relevant information about vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles on intersected roads, and makes this information ready for transmission to the vehicle terminal before the driver needs it
2Loss of information
If the system provides comprehensive image information from multiple directions, then the driver gains complete situational awareness, but the processing burden on the vehicle terminal increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server extracts only the essential and relevant information from the complete intersection images, such as detecting and isolating vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles on intersected roads. Instead of transmitting entire high-resolution images to the vehicle terminal, the system extracts key visual elements and transmits only this processed information, significantly reducing the data processing burden on the vehicle terminal while maintaining complete situational awareness
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the complex intersection scene into distinct detectable objects such as vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles. Each object is identified and processed separately, allowing the server to extract specific information about each element and transmit only the necessary data about relevant objects to the vehicle terminal, reducing overall processing requirements
Data Source
AI summary
A system for providing image information while interworking with a plurality of photographing apparatuses converts each of at least one image transmitted from the plurality of photographing apparatuses into a frame, and inserts the coordinates of the intersection into the converted frame. Next, the system determines whether a vehicle enters the intersection based on the frame into which the coordinates of the intersection are inserted, the current travelling direction of the vehicle, and the current position coordinates of the vehicle. The system extracts image information of the road intersecting at the frame corresponding to each of at least one image, when the vehicle enters the vehicle, and provides the extracted image information to the user through a terminal in the vehicle.