Vehicle Evaluation Notification System for Road Safety

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems are inadequate in motivating drivers to improve their behavior and providing evaluations of surrounding vehicles' driving manners, which is crucial for preventing accidents and ensuring comfortable driving.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that automatically recognizes target vehicles, acquires user evaluations, and generates notifications based on these evaluations to be communicated to the vehicles and their drivers, promoting better driving habits and safety.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If user evaluations of target vehicles are collected and shared, then driving behavior improvement is motivated and road safety is enhanced, but system complexity and information processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroad safetyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an information processing apparatus as an intermediary between users and the evaluation system. This apparatus automatically recognizes target vehicles from environment information, acquires user evaluations, and generates notification information, thereby simplifying the overall system complexity while maintaining reliability through automated mediation of evaluation data collection and distribution

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing users to automatically provide evaluations of other drivers' behaviors through automated recognition and notification mechanisms. The information processing apparatus handles the complex tasks of data collection, processing, and distribution automatically, reducing the burden on individual users while enhancing road safety through widespread participation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If automated recognition of target vehicles is implemented, then evaluation accuracy is improved, but information processing requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The information processing apparatus performs preliminary action by automatically recognizing target vehicles from environment information before evaluations are submitted. This pre-processing step organizes and structures the data in advance, improving evaluation accuracy while reducing the computational burden during actual evaluation processing by having data ready in a structured format

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10699569B2Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
Publication Date: 2020.06.30 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

[Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of efficiently using information regarding a user evaluation of a target vehicle.[Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a recognition section configured to automatically recognize information of a target vehicle from environment information of a user; an acquisition section configured to acquire a user evaluation of the recognized target vehicle; and a generation section configured to generate information for issuing a notification of the acquired user evaluation.