Automatic Parking Notification Timing Along Registered Routes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing parking assistance systems often notify drivers of automatic parking availability at undesired times, causing inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A parking assistance apparatus that adjusts the notification start point for automatic parking based on driver preferences by registering a new point when certain conditions are met, thereby preventing unwanted notifications and optimizing the parking route.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the assistance availability notification is performed at an earlier point of time, then the driver can be notified in advance, but the driver may feel inconvenience due to unwanted notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The notification start point is made dynamic and adjustable based on driver preferences. The system allows the driver to update the notification start point according to their desired timing, transforming a static notification mechanism into a dynamic one that adapts to user needs, thereby resolving the contradiction between early notification and driver convenience
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the driver's responses to notifications are monitored and used to adjust future notification behavior. By detecting when the driver executes automatic parking control and using this information to update the notification start point, the system learns from driver behavior and optimizes notification timing to prevent inconvenience
2Length of moving object
If the parking route is newly registered from the notification start point, then the registered parking route is shortened, but the system must track and manage multiple registration points
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary portion of the parking route starting from the notification start point for new registrations. By taking out only the relevant segment of the route rather than managing the entire route, the system reduces the amount of data that needs to be stored and managed, thereby reducing complexity while achieving route shortening
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AI summary
A parking assistance apparatus executes an automatic parking control of automatically moving an own vehicle along a registered parking route to park the own vehicle in a registered parking space. When the own vehicle reaches a registered notification start point on the registered parking route or reaches a point within a predetermined distance from the registered notification start point, the parking assistance apparatus performs an assistance availability notification which notifies an operator of the own vehicle that the operator can park the own vehicle in the registered parking space by the automatic parking control. When an update condition that the operator requests an execution of the automatic parking control, becomes satisfied after starting to perform the assistance availability notification, the parking assistance apparatus newly registers a point where the update condition becomes satisfied as the notification start point.