Split Navigation Interface for Real-Time Vehicle Status Guidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current navigation systems for vehicles lack real-time updates and integrated services that provide comprehensive route guidance, vehicle status monitoring, and decentralized data management, leading to inefficiencies in route optimization and service authorization.

Innovation Solution

A system that utilizes a dynamic split navigation GUI, blockchain technology for decentralized data management, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication to offer real-time route updates, vehicle status monitoring, and service authorization, integrating sensors and machine learning for enhanced navigation and service management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional navigation systems are used, then basic route guidance is provided, but real-time updates and comprehensive vehicle status monitoring are lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroute guidance accuracyVSAvoidvehicle status information
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines navigation guidance, real-time vehicle status monitoring, and service authorization into a single integrated system. The display interface merges map visualization with vehicle status indicators (fuel level, battery charge, maintenance alerts) and service provider information, allowing the driver to access all functions through one unified system rather than separate devices or interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The navigation system is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: providing route guidance, monitoring vehicle status parameters (fuel, battery, maintenance needs), authorizing services through blockchain verification, and communicating with service providers. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate systems and ensures comprehensive information availability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If centralized data management is used, then service authorization is simplified, but real-time updates and decentralized communication are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice authorizationVSAvoiddata update speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of service provider credentials and vehicle eligibility through blockchain-based authorization before the actual service interaction. This pre-authorization process stores verified data on the blockchain, enabling rapid real-time updates and communications without requiring centralized verification for each interaction, thus speeding up data updates while maintaining security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The blockchain acts as an intermediary layer between centralized authorization systems and decentralized real-time communications. It stores verified authorization data that can be quickly accessed and updated by multiple participants without requiring direct communication with a central server, enabling both ease of operation and fast update speeds.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If detailed navigation information is provided, then route guidance is comprehensive, but driver distraction and information overload increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenavigation information completenessVSAvoiddriver distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The navigation information is segmented into distinct visual zones on the display: map/navigation information in one area, vehicle status indicators in another, and service provider details in a third. This segmentation allows comprehensive information to be presented without overwhelming the driver, as each zone can be glanced at separately rather than all information competing for attention simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different portions of the display provide different types of information optimized for their specific purpose: the map area provides spatial context and route overview, while smaller indicator areas provide specific vehicle status or service information. This local optimization ensures that critical navigation information is prominent while detailed information is available but less visually dominant, reducing distraction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20240328812A1Dynamic split navigation GUI
Publication Date: 2024.10.03 TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC
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AI summary

An example operation includes one or more of responsive to a selection of a navigation capability, presenting on a first portion of an interface, an overview of a progress of a vehicle from an origination to a destination, presenting on a second portion of an interface, an estimated time of arrival of the vehicle at the destination and a time remaining until reaching the destination, and presenting on a third portion of an interface, an upcoming action for the vehicle to take to reach the destination.