Vehicle Gait And Gesture Recognition for Secure External Commands

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current transportation systems lack the ability to autonomously recognize and respond to the gait and gestures of individuals outside the vehicle, limiting their functionality and efficiency in performing tasks without direct human intervention.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system with cameras and processors that detect and validate the gait and gestures of individuals, allowing the vehicle to perform functions such as unlocking doors, starting the engine, or controlling climate settings based on pre-defined patterns and authentication protocols, utilizing machine learning and blockchain technology for secure and decentralized data management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the transport system implements autonomous recognition of gait and gestures using cameras and processors, then the functionality and efficiency of the vehicle are improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunctionality and efficiencyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The camera system is designed to perform multiple functions: capturing gait information for authentication, detecting gestures for command input, and potentially monitoring the environment. This multi-functionality allows the system to improve vehicle productivity without proportionally increasing complexity, as a single hardware component serves multiple purposes in the autonomous operation framework

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

2Reliability

If the system uses machine learning and blockchain technology for secure authentication, then the security level is improved, but the computational requirements and energy consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoidenergy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Machine learning models are trained beforehand to recognize authorized gaits and valid gestures. During actual vehicle operation, the system performs pattern matching rather than full machine learning inference, significantly reducing real-time computational requirements and energy consumption while maintaining high security through pre-validated recognition algorithms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If the transport recognizes and responds to gestures autonomously, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability may worsen due to potential misinterpretation of gestures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidreliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where recognized gestures are validated against pre-defined patterns and authentication protocols before executing commands. The computer validates each gesture and can provide feedback signals to confirm recognition or request clarification, ensuring that ease of operation does not compromise reliability by preventing misinterpretation from triggering incorrect functions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11935147B2Transport gait and gesture interpretation
Publication Date: 2024.03.19 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a computer associated with a transport, a gait of an individual from at least one camera associated with the transport, validating, by the computer, the gait, receiving, by the computer, a gesture of the individual from the at least one camera, validating, by the computer, the gesture, and performing, by the computer, one or more functions based on the validated gait and the validated gesture.