Vehicle Electronic Device Detecting Pedestrian Gestures for Spontaneous Stops
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional shared autonomous vehicles cannot accommodate individuals who have not pre-reserved a ride, limiting their usability and convenience for spontaneous passengers.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device for vehicles that uses image data from cameras to determine the intention of outside individuals to ride by analyzing their location, posture, and gestures, generating a control signal to stop the vehicle accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the vehicle operates in conventional shared autonomous mode with pre-reserved rides only, then operational reliability is improved, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle's operational mode is made dynamic by enabling automatic stopping when pedestrians are detected near the vehicle. The control unit dynamically adjusts vehicle behavior based on real-time camera detection of pedestrian location, posture, and gestures, allowing the system to transition between autonomous driving and stopping states as needed
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle autonomously detects pedestrian intent to hitchhike using camera-based image recognition and automatically stops without requiring manual intervention from passengers or drivers. The system serves itself by independently making the decision to stop based on detected gestures and postures, eliminating the need for pre-reserved ride arrangements
2Ease of operation
If the vehicle stops automatically upon detecting hitchhiking intent, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system performs multiple functions: it captures images for hitchhiking detection, records video for monitoring, and provides visual data for analysis. The control unit handles both autonomous driving control and automatic stopping decisions, making the system multi-functional and reducing the need for separate dedicated components
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit acts as an intermediary between the camera system and the vehicle's driving system. It processes image data, determines pedestrian intent, and translates this information into appropriate vehicle control signals, mediating between detection and execution functions
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an electronic device for a vehicle, including a processor acquiring image data acquired by a camera mounted in a vehicle, determining a riding intention of an outside person based on the location, posture, and gesture of the outside person detected from the image data, and generating a control signal to stop the vehicle based on the riding intention.