Ridesharing Server Location Image Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current ridesharing services lack intuitive and efficient methods for providing users and drivers with accurate and convenient information about get-on and get-off locations, leading to potential difficulties in navigation and service delivery.
Innovation Solution
A server system that includes a registered location database and management module to store and update image information of locations, prioritizing images based on obstacle and facility presence, and a service providing module that selects optimal locations and transmits relevant image data to user and vehicle terminals, ensuring intuitive location information is provided.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If image data is provided for get-on and get-off locations, then user and driver convenience is improved, but system complexity increases due to image storage and management requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing image data of get-on and get-off locations in advance in the registered location database. This allows the server to quickly retrieve and transmit relevant images when service requests are made, avoiding the need for real-time image capture and processing, thus improving convenience while managing system complexity through pre-prepared data.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary between the registered location database and user/driver terminals. It receives service requests, queries the database for relevant image data, and transmits the images to the appropriate terminals. This intermediary role simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing image management and reducing direct complexity at terminal devices.
2Measurement precision
If multiple image data are stored for different photographing directions, then location information accuracy is improved, but data storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by storing multiple image data with different photographing directions for specific locations in the registered location database. Each location has images captured from relevant directions, providing accurate and context-specific visual information. This ensures that when a service request is made, the server can transmit the most appropriate image that matches the user's or driver's approach direction, enhancing location accuracy without storing unnecessary images.
3Ease of operation
If image data is transmitted to user and vehicle terminals, then navigation ease is improved, but communication data transmission load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server extracts and transmits only the specific image data relevant to the requested service from the registered location database. Instead of transmitting all stored images or large amounts of unnecessary data, the server identifies and sends only the images corresponding to the get-on and get-off locations needed for that particular service request. This extraction approach improves navigation ease by providing relevant visual information while minimizing communication data transmission load.
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AI summary
A server for providing a passenger transportation service, may include a registered location database configured to store position information and image information related to each of previously registered get-on-and-off locations, a registered location management module configured to receive image data photographed from vehicles providing passenger transportation service during running and additional information including position information related to each of the image data, and update the image information based on the additional information by use of the image data, and a service providing module configured to, upon receiving a service provision request including position information and destination information related to a user from a user terminal, select a get-on location and a get-off location from among the get-on-and-off locations based on the position information and the destination information related to the user, and transmit get-on-and-off information including image data of the get-on location to the user terminal.