Notification Device for Vehicle Software Update Guidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to effectively urge users to update the software of moving bodies, such as vehicles, leading to potential performance limitations and user inconvenience.

Innovation Solution

A notification device that determines suitable accommodation areas for a moving body before and after software rewriting, prompting users to update the software by notifying them of the performance differences and guiding the vehicle to optimal parking spaces with suitable communication and energy conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the user is notified of software update information only, then the user receives update information, but the user is not effectively urged to rewrite the software

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidsoftware update rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification device provides feedback to the user by displaying the difference between the first accommodation area (current performance) and the second accommodation area (performance after rewriting). This visual feedback mechanism effectively urges the user to rewrite the software by showing the tangible benefits of the update.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The notification device uses visual display (analogous to color changes) to present the difference between current and future accommodation areas in a visually distinguishable manner, making the performance improvement apparent and encouraging the user to proceed with the software rewrite.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

2Loss of information

If the notification device displays detailed accommodation area information, then the user can see performance differences, but the notification complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidnotification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification device segments the information display into two distinct parts: the first accommodation area information and the second accommodation area information. This segmentation allows comprehensive information to be presented in an organized, easily comparable format that does not overwhelm the user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The notification device presents information in a comparative dimensional format, showing the difference between current and future states side by side. This dimensional approach allows complete information to be conveyed without increasing perceived complexity, as the comparison provides natural structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS11537385B2Notification device
Publication Date: 2022.12.27 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A notification device, configured to notify an accommodation area that can accommodate a moving body, in which the performance of the moving body that can be accommodated in the accommodation area is predetermined; includes: a first determination unit configured to determine a first accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the current performance, based on the current performance of the moving body; a second determination unit configured to determine a second accommodation area that can accommodate the moving body with the performance after rewriting, based on the performance after the rewriting the software of the moving body; and a notification unit configured to separately notify the first accommodation area and the second accommodation area.