Vehicle Safety Support With Dynamic Guide Projection for Boarding

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge of ensuring safe getting on and off vehicles, particularly for vulnerable individuals, and providing information to surrounding vehicles and road users to enhance safety, is not adequately addressed by existing technologies.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle safety support system equipped with sensors, projectors, and displays that generate and project guide images and assistive images to track and assist objects around the vehicle, providing real-time information and adjusting projections based on object movement and contact, thereby enhancing safety during boarding and alighting.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a projector is used to project guide images on the bottom surface to indicate object location, then the safety awareness of surrounding entities is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety awarenessVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a projector as an intermediary device that projects guide images on the bottom surface to indicate object locations. This mediator translates sensor data into visual information for surrounding entities, improving safety awareness without requiring direct communication between sensors and road users. The projector serves as a bridge that converts detected object positions into intuitive visual guidance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If sensors continuously track object movement in real time to update guide images, then the accuracy of object location information is improved, but the energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveobject location accuracyVSAvoidenergy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements periodic action by updating guide images based on detected object movement rather than continuous real-time updates. The sensor identifies when an object has moved and triggers guide image updates only at these intervals. This approach maintains measurement precision by tracking object locations accurately while reducing energy consumption by avoiding unnecessary continuous updates when objects are stationary.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple display devices are used to provide information to both occupants and surrounding vehicles, then the versatility of safety information provision is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation provision versatilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by designing a integrated safety support system that serves multiple functions through coordinated operation of sensors, projectors, and display devices. The same sensor network that detects objects for occupant safety also provides information to surrounding vehicles through external displays. This multi-functional approach improves versatility without proportionally increasing complexity, as components serve dual purposes.

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

4Ease of operation

If the guide image tracks object movement by adjusting projection location, then the ease of operation for safe boarding and alighting is improved, but the measurement precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafe boarding and alightingVSAvoidobject tracking precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamics by making the guide image location dynamic and adaptive to object movement. The projection location automatically adjusts based on real-time object position data from sensors. This dynamic tracking improves ease of operation for boarding and alighting by continuously providing accurate directional guidance. The system maintains measurement precision requirements through coordinated sensor-projection operations that update guide images as objects move.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12409730B2Safety support system for assisting safety of objects around vehicle
Publication Date: 2025.09.09 MABA IND CO LTD
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AI summary

A vehicle safety support system is provided. The vehicle safety support system according to some embodiments of the present disclosure can track and display the location of the object related to the vehicle, thereby assisting objects surrounding the vehicle to recognize the object related to the vehicle. Accordingly, it is possible to support the object related to the vehicle to safely get on and off the vehicle. Further, the vehicle safety support system according to some embodiments of the present disclosure can support the objects around the vehicle to perform safe passage or safe driving by providing various types of information related to the vehicle through an external display.