Vehicle Navigation Device Real-Time Street View Update
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current navigation devices lack multi-integrated applications and have outdated street view images, particularly in rural areas, due to high costs and inefficiencies in collecting and updating street view data, which focuses mainly on downtown areas.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle navigation device equipped with an image capturing component, wireless communication component, and positioning component, which captures and uploads vehicle position and event data images, and downloads real-time driving information, including street views, via wireless communication, allowing for updated street view data collection and dissemination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If dedicated street view cars are dispatched to collect and update street view images, then the street view data can be updated, but the cost and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation device itself captures street view images using its built-in image capturing component during normal navigation operations, eliminating the need for dedicated street view collection vehicles. The device serves its own information update needs by autonomously capturing and uploading street view data.
Solution Approach 2:
The navigation device performs multiple functions simultaneously: navigation guidance, positioning, and street view data collection. The image capturing component serves both as a navigation aid and a street view data source, making the system multi-functional and eliminating the need for separate dedicated vehicles.
2Loss of information
If dedicated street view cars are dispatched to collect and update street view images, then the street view data can be updated, but the investment cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation device captures and uploads its own street view data during normal operations, eliminating the need for expensive dedicated street view collection vehicles and reducing investment costs significantly.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using specialized vehicles to capture street views, the system uses copies of the navigation device already present in numerous vehicles, each capable of capturing and contributing street view data.
3Productivity
If street view collection focuses mainly on downtown areas, then the collection efficiency is improved, but the coverage of rural areas is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation device performs navigation and street view collection simultaneously across all geographic areas, enabling rural areas to be covered without reducing overall collection efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The distributed network of navigation devices in various vehicles autonomously collects street view data from their respective locations, including rural areas, eliminating the need for centralized dedicated collection operations that would prioritize urban areas.
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AI summary
According to one or more embodiments of this disclosure, the vehicle navigation device includes an image capturing component, a wireless communication component, a positioning component and a processor. The image capturing component is configured to capture an event data image of an external condition of a vehicle. The positioning component is configured to obtain a vehicle position and provide it to the processor. The processor is configured to upload the vehicle position and the event data image via the wireless communication component in response to a uploading instruction, and download driving information, corresponding to the vehicle position and a destination position, via the wireless communication component in response to a downloading instruction, wherein the driving information includes information of at least one driving route and one or more real-time street views corresponding to the at least one driving route.