Vehicle Forgotten-Operation Alerts Using State-Aware Notification Logic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing notification systems for vehicle users about forgotten operations fail to account for vehicle states, leading to unnecessary notifications.
Innovation Solution
An information processing method that acquires positional information for the vehicle and user terminal, determines if the user is in the vicinity, and only notifies when the vehicle is in an abnormal state, thereby reducing unnecessary notifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notification is sent whenever a predetermined operation is forgotten regardless of vehicle state, then the user is informed about all forgotten operations, but unnecessary notifications are sent when the vehicle is already in an abnormal state
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system changes its behavior based on the vehicle state parameter. When the vehicle is detected to be in an abnormal state (such as engine off, door open, hood open), the system suppresses notifications for forgotten operations. This parameter-based conditional logic filters out unnecessary notifications while preserving important ones, directly resolving the contradiction between notification completeness and reduction of harmful notifications.
2Device complexity
If the system checks only time and distance to determine notification necessity, then the determination process is simple, but it cannot distinguish between cases where notification is and is not necessary
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system integrates multiple determination criteria (time, distance, and vehicle state) into a single unified notification determination process. By making the system multi-functional and considering various factors simultaneously, it accurately distinguishes between cases requiring notification and those that don't, without significantly increasing complexity. The vehicle state check is added as another dimension to the existing time-distance determination framework.
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AI summary
An information processing method by an information processing apparatus includes acquiring, upon detecting that a predetermined operation for a vehicle has been forgotten, positional information for the vehicle and positional information for a user terminal, acquiring, upon determining that a position of the user terminal is not in a vicinity of a position of the vehicle, vehicle information for the vehicle, and not notifying, when the vehicle is determined from the vehicle information to be in an abnormal state, the user terminal that the predetermined operation has been forgotten, or notifying, when the vehicle is determined from the vehicle information to be not in an abnormal state, the user terminal that the predetermined operation has been forgotten.