Vehicle Inspection Interface With Auto-Activated Tools
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle inspection systems require users to manually prepare and operate instruments for specific inspection items, which can be cumbersome and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
An inspection assistance program and system that includes a display control unit to show a selection screen for choosing inspection items and a device control unit to automatically operate associated devices, such as lights or image-capturing devices, based on the selected inspection item.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a user manually prepares and operates instruments for specific inspection items, then the inspection can be performed, but the operational burden increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The inspection assistance apparatus automatically activates the required instrument based on the selected inspection item without requiring manual user intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously determining which instrument is needed and activating it, thereby reducing the user's operational burden while maintaining inspection efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically activating the required instrument before the inspection process begins. When an inspection item is selected, the apparatus proactively prepares the necessary instrument in advance, eliminating the need for users to manually prepare instruments and thereby improving both ease of operation and productivity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple instruments are prepared for different inspection items, then various inspection tasks can be performed, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The inspection assistance apparatus serves as a universal control system that can manage multiple different instruments through a single interface. By selecting different inspection items, the same apparatus can activate various instruments (light, image-capturing device, etc.), demonstrating multi-functionality that maintains versatility while hiding the underlying complexity from the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The inspection assistance apparatus acts as an intermediary between the user and multiple instruments. Instead of the user directly managing multiple instruments, the apparatus mediates by receiving the inspection item selection and automatically activating the appropriate instrument, thereby reducing device complexity from the user's perspective while maintaining adaptability to various inspection tasks.
Data Source
AI summary
This inspection assistance program for assisting inspection of a vehicle causes a computer to function as: a display control unit 272 that causes a display unit 25 to display a selection screen for selecting one inspection execution item from a plurality of inspection items; and a device control unit 273 that causes a device provided to the computer and associated with the inspection execution item selected on the selection screen to operate. When a liquid amount of a battery of the vehicle is selected as an inspection execution item on the selection screen, the device control unit 273 may turn on a light 22 as a device associated with the inspection execution item. The device control unit 273 may activate an imaging device 23 that generates an image as the device associated with the inspection execution item.