Vehicle Communication Apparatus Feature Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems face challenges in efficiently transmitting vehicle status information due to high data volumes, leading to communication difficulties and increased processing loads when transmitting and analyzing travel information from multiple vehicles.

Innovation Solution

A communication apparatus and system that acquire and create feature information with a smaller data amount than the original status information, using methods like Deep Learning to convert multiple types of information into fewer feature amounts, and transmit this feature information along with correspondence data to efficiently convey vehicle status, reducing data transmission and processing loads.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If vehicle status information is transmitted in original format, then complete vehicle status data is available, but data transmission volume increases and communication efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle status information completenessVSAvoiddata transmission volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts essential feature information from comprehensive vehicle status data using deep learning models. Instead of transmitting all original status parameters, the system identifies and transmits only the most critical feature amounts that represent vehicle status, thereby reducing data volume while preserving essential information content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms vehicle status information from raw parameter format to feature amount format through deep learning processing. This parameter transformation compresses multiple status parameters into fewer feature amounts, reducing transmission data volume while maintaining the ability to reconstruct vehicle status information at the receiving end.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If feature information is created to reduce data amount, then data transmission volume decreases, but information completeness may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transmission volumeVSAvoidvehicle status information completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the receiving end uses correspondence information to interpret feature amounts and reconstruct vehicle status. The system continuously refines the feature extraction process based on the effectiveness of status determination, ensuring that transmitted feature information maintains sufficient completeness for accurate vehicle status assessment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces correspondence information as an intermediary element that bridges the gap between compressed feature information and complete vehicle status. This intermediary data structure enables the receiving end to accurately interpret feature amounts and reconstruct comprehensive vehicle status information without receiving the original large-volume status data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple types of status information are transmitted, then comprehensive vehicle status is captured, but processing load at receiving end increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle status coverageVSAvoidprocessing load
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the processing workload between transmitting and receiving ends. The transmitting end performs complex deep learning-based feature extraction to convert multiple status parameters into compact feature amounts, while the receiving end only needs to perform simpler interpretation of these feature amounts using correspondence information, thereby reducing overall processing load.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary processing of vehicle status information at the transmitting end by pre-computing feature amounts using deep learning models before transmission. This preliminary action consolidates multiple status parameters into essential feature information in advance, so the receiving end does not need to perform complex analysis on raw status data, reducing its processing burden.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10762787B2Communication device, communication system, communication program, and communication control method
Publication Date: 2020.09.01 SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a communication apparatus installed in a vehicle, the communication apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, via a network installed in the vehicle, a plurality of types of status information each indicating a status of the vehicle; an information creation unit configured to create, on the basis of each piece of the status information acquired by the acquisition unit, feature information having a data amount smaller than a total of data amounts of the respective pieces of the status information, the feature information including a feature amount of a traveling status of the vehicle; and a transmission unit configured to transmit vehicle information based on the feature information created by the information creation unit, to another communication apparatus.