Vehicle Abnormal Act Detection and Server Relay System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle monitoring systems cannot utilize determinations of abnormal acts, such as theft, for purposes beyond immediate notification, leading to missed opportunities for enhanced security measures.

Innovation Solution

An information providing system that includes vehicles equipped with position detectors and act detectors, which transmit abnormal act information to a server that collects and relays this information to other vehicles or mobile terminals, enabling users to take proactive measures against potential threats.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a vehicle monitoring system determines abnormal acts such as theft, then the determination can be used for immediate notification purposes, but the determined result cannot be utilized for other purposes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveutilization of determination resultsVSAvoidunused determination information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by enabling the abnormal act determination results to serve multiple functions: not only immediate theft notification but also statistical analysis for high-frequency region identification and proactive warning to other vehicles. This multi-functional use of the same determination data resolves the limitation of single-purpose utilization.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by collecting abnormal act determination results from multiple vehicles, analyzing them statistically to identify high-frequency regions, and then feeding this information back to other vehicles as warnings. This closed-loop feedback mechanism transforms isolated determination results into collective security intelligence.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If abnormal act information is collected and transmitted to multiple vehicles, then users can take proactive security measures, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle securityVSAvoidinformation providing system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that centralizes the collection, statistical analysis, and distribution of abnormal act information. This intermediary architecture simplifies the overall system by providing a dedicated coordination point, avoiding the need for direct peer-to-peer communication between all vehicles and reducing individual vehicle complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system merges the information processing functions (collection, analysis, distribution) into a centralized server infrastructure, combining multiple operations into a unified system that manages abnormal act information for all vehicles. This merging reduces redundancy and simplifies individual vehicle systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Measurement precision

If the server collects and analyzes abnormal act information to identify high-frequency regions, then targeted warnings can be provided, but information processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveregion specification accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by focusing statistical analysis on identifying only the most critical high-frequency abnormal act regions rather than analyzing all possible scenarios. This selective approach provides sufficient precision for security warnings while limiting processing time and computational resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10723364B2Information providing system and vehicle
Publication Date: 2020.07.28 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An information providing system includes a plurality of vehicles, and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. A vehicle-side controller of each of a plurality of first vehicles of the plurality of vehicles determines whether or not an act detected by an act detector is an abnormal act that meets a predetermined condition, and, when the vehicle-side controller determines that the act is the abnormal act, the vehicle-side controller transmits, to the server, abnormal act occurrence information including a position of each first vehicle detected by a position detector. A server-side controller collects the occurrence information transmitted from the first vehicles as collected information, and transmits the collected information to a second vehicle of the plurality of vehicles to notify a user of the second vehicle of the collected information.