Control Apparatus for Vehicle Field of View Comparison

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional apparatuses do not allow customers to know the change in the sense of operation or visibility when switching between different vehicles, resulting in insufficient convenience.

Innovation Solution

A control apparatus that communicates with a user's terminal, acquiring vehicle type data for both the ordered and currently used vehicles, and generates images representing the field of view for each vehicle type, allowing users to compare the differences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If conventional apparatuses provide basic vehicle information (captured images during assembly or positional information during transport), then information provision is achieved, but users cannot understand changes in sense of operation or visibility when switching vehicles

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation on vehicle changesVSAvoiduser convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The control apparatus generates field of view range images representing the ordered vehicle type before delivery, allowing users to preliminarily understand the visual characteristics and operational differences of the new vehicle type, thereby reducing information loss during vehicle transition

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates visual copies (field of view range images) of the ordered vehicle type's driving environment and operational perspective, enabling users to mentally simulate and understand the changes in sense of operation and visibility without physically experiencing the new vehicle

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If no field of view comparison is provided, then system complexity remains low, but users experience insufficient convenience when changing vehicles

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control apparatus acts as an intermediary between the vehicle manufacturer and the user, providing field of view range images that mediate the user's understanding of vehicle type changes, thereby enhancing user convenience without requiring complex modifications to the vehicle itself

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces physical vehicle testing or direct user experience with a digital information provision system that uses communication interfaces and image generation to convey operational differences, reducing the need for mechanical interaction and physical vehicle changes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20250200877A1Control apparatus

Publication Date: 2025.06.19 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK

AI summary

A control apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user, and a controller configured to acquire first vehicle type data indicating a type of a vehicle ordered by the user as a first vehicle type and second vehicle type data indicating a type of a vehicle used by the user as a second vehicle type, generate a first image representing at least a part of a first field of view range visible in a vehicle of the first vehicle type indicated by the acquired first vehicle type data and a second image representing at least a part of a second field of view range visible in a vehicle of the second vehicle type indicated by the acquired second vehicle type data, and transmit both of the generated first image and second image to the terminal apparatus of the user via the communication interface.