Traffic Control Unit Warning for Illegal Vehicles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing intelligent transportation systems fail to effectively warn vehicles of illegal behaviors, such as running red lights or violating traffic rules, which can lead to collisions and compromise traffic safety.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for illegal vehicle warning that detects illegal vehicles in preset areas and transmits warnings to target vehicles via a traffic control unit, using vehicle information to alert drivers of potential collisions and improve safety.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the traffic control unit detects and warns target vehicles of illegal vehicles, then traffic safety is improved, but the system complexity increases due to detection and communication infrastructure requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraffic safetyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a traffic control unit as an intermediary system that receives information from road side units about illegal vehicles and transmits warnings to target vehicles. This mediator approach allows the system to improve traffic safety by centralizing the detection and warning functions, while the complexity is distributed across existing infrastructure components rather than requiring direct vehicle-to-vehicle complex communication protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If real-time detection and warning is implemented, then collision risk is reduced, but information transmission requirements and system resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollision riskVSAvoidinformation transmission requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of illegal vehicles by road side units before collisions can occur. The traffic control unit receives this information in advance and transmits warnings to target vehicles proactively, allowing drivers to take preventive action. This preliminary action approach reduces collision risk by providing advance notice, while optimizing information transmission by only sending warnings when illegal vehicles are actually detected rather than continuous data streams.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11705005B2Method, apparatus and device for illegal vehicle warning
Publication Date: 2023.07.18 APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus and a device for an illegal vehicle warning. The method includes: detecting an illegal vehicle in a preset area; and performing the illegal vehicle warning on a target vehicle entering the preset area according to vehicle information of a detected illegal vehicle in the preset area. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the traffic control unit detects the illegal vehicle in the preset area, and the illegal vehicle warning is performed on the target vehicle entering the preset area according to the vehicle information of the detected illegal vehicle in the preset area, thereby avoiding or mitigating the collision of the target vehicle with the illegal vehicle, and improving the traffic safety of the target vehicle.