Vehicle Camera Alert Display for Adaptive Hazard Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle systems that use imaging devices to alert operators about surrounding situations often compromise user convenience, particularly in determining appropriate alert levels and displaying relevant information effectively.
Innovation Solution
An information supply method and system that utilizes a terminal device equipped with a camera in a mobile object to acquire images, determine alert levels, and display corresponding information on a display, including alert directions and colors, to enhance user convenience and safety by providing timely and relevant alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an alarm device outputs alarms based on image processing results, then safety monitoring capability is improved, but user convenience deteriorates due to excessive or inappropriate alerts
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes alert parameters (alert level, display information type, light emission pattern) based on the determined surrounding situation. By adjusting these parameters according to the actual risk level, the system maintains high safety monitoring capability while avoiding excessive alerts that would reduce user convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The alert output is made dynamic rather than static. The system continuously determines the surrounding situation and adjusts the alert level and display information accordingly. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to provide appropriate alerts only when necessary, improving both safety monitoring and user convenience.
2Loss of information
If alert information is displayed continuously or excessively, then awareness of surrounding hazards is improved, but user attention and convenience deteriorate due to information overload
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and displays only the essential alert information relevant to the current surrounding situation, rather than displaying all possible information continuously. By selecting and presenting only the necessary alert content, the system maintains hazard awareness while preventing information overload.
Solution Approach 2:
Different types of information are displayed based on the specific alert level and situation. The system applies local quality by tailoring the display content to the specific hazard level, showing detailed information only when appropriate and simpler alerts for less critical situations.
Data Source
AI summary
An information supply method causes a computer of a terminal device equipped with a camera and mounted in a mobile object to execute: a process of acquiring an image; a process of determining an alert level for an operator of the mobile object is a first alert level or a second alert level that is a level lower than the first alert level based on a surrounding situation of the mobile object obtained from the image; and a process of displaying information appropriate to the alert level on a display provided on a casing in which the camera of the terminal device is provided in accordance with a result of the determination.