Vehicle Destination Prediction Using Driving Patterns and Arrival Time

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle systems lack the ability to predict destinations accurately and efficiently perform actions based on arrival time, leading to inefficiencies in vehicle operations and user experiences.

Innovation Solution

A system that analyzes driving patterns, predicts vehicle destinations, and performs actions at those destinations based on arrival time using processors and machine learning algorithms, integrated with blockchain technology for secure data management and smart contracts for authorization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If destination prediction and automated actions are implemented, then vehicle efficiency and user experience are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevehicle efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is divided into distinct functional modules: driving pattern analysis module, destination prediction module, action determination module, and execution module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the destination prediction process, making the overall complex system manageable and maintainable while achieving high vehicle efficiency through coordinated operation of these segmented components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The processor is designed to perform multiple functions: analyzing driving patterns, predicting destinations, determining actions, and executing commands. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be separate systems into a single universal platform, improving vehicle efficiency without proportionally increasing system complexity

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

2Measurement precision

If machine learning algorithms are used for destination prediction, then prediction accuracy is improved, but computational requirements and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously collects and pre-processes driving pattern data in the background during normal vehicle operation. By preparing prediction models and pre-processing data before actual destination prediction is needed, the system achieves high prediction accuracy without adding significant processing time when the prediction is actually required

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from actual vehicle destinations and user corrections to continuously refine and update the machine learning models. This feedback mechanism improves prediction accuracy over time while the iterative nature of the updates allows processing to occur efficiently during idle periods rather than requiring extensive real-time computation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250262975A1Vehicle destination prediction
Publication Date: 2025.08.21 TOYOTA MOTOR ENG & MFG NORTH AMERICA INC
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AI summary

An example operation includes one or more of analyzing a driving pattern of a vehicle, predicting a destination of the vehicle based on the analyzing, and performing an action at the predicted destination based on an amount of time until an arrival of the vehicle at the predicted destination.