Safety Notification Prioritization for Multi-Zone User Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing action confirmation systems fail to clearly prioritize safety notifications when multiple danger zones are within a specific distance of a user's current position, leading to confusion about which danger site notifications refer to.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that acquires zone information indicating zones where safety actions are required and prioritizes notifications based on time-related and non-time-related zones, executing notifications corresponding to zones with recent or frequent safety concerns, ensuring timely and relevant alerts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple danger zones are monitored simultaneously, then safety coverage is improved, but notification clarity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety coverageVSAvoidnotification clarity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments notifications by introducing priority levels (first priority, second priority, etc.) to differentiate between multiple danger zones. When the user is in multiple danger zones simultaneously, notifications are divided into priority groups, with higher priority notifications presented first. This segmentation allows the system to maintain comprehensive safety coverage while preserving notification clarity through structured information presentation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of information

If all danger zone notifications are presented equally, then information completeness is improved, but user response efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiduser response efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-establishing priority levels for different danger zones before notifications are generated. Each danger zone is assigned a priority level based on predefined criteria (such as severity of danger, proximity to user, or type of hazard). When multiple notifications are triggered, the system automatically presents them in priority order, allowing the user to respond to the most critical dangers first while still receiving information about all danger zones.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of time

If priority-based notification is implemented, then user response efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser response efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements priority-based notification by changing the parameter of notification presentation from equal treatment to differentiated treatment based on priority levels. The control section modifies the notification delivery process by introducing priority as a controlling parameter, which determines the order and manner in which notifications are presented to the user. This parameter change enables efficient user response without requiring complex additional hardware or systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20230421989A1Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium storing an information processing program
Publication Date: 2023.12.28 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An information processing device including a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire zone information indicating a zone in which a safety related action is to be urged to a user along a path; and in a case in which a current position of the user moving along the path is contained in a plurality of zones indicated by the acquired zone information, cause a notification corresponding to a zone having a high predetermined priority from among the plurality of zones, to be executed by a notification section.