Unified Surrounding-Object Display for Vehicle Position Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle safety systems fail to provide drivers with a comprehensive, instantaneous, and intuitive view of their surrounding environment, leading to potential collisions due to limited directional awareness.
Innovation Solution
A system using an electronic computer device to display surrounding objects relative to the vehicle in real-time, enabling instant communication and screen sharing among vehicles, and broader audiences, through image processing, deep learning models, and communication protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple separate screens are used to display information from different directions, then information coverage is improved, but system complexity increases and drivers cannot gain a global view intuitively
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple directional views (front, rear, left, right) into a single unified display interface that shows all surrounding objects simultaneously. This consolidation maintains comprehensive situational awareness while eliminating the complexity of multiple separate screens, directly resolving the technical contradiction between information coverage and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms multiple 2D directional views into a single 3D bird's-eye view representation that displays all surrounding objects in their actual spatial relationships. This dimensional transformation allows drivers to perceive global positioning and environmental dynamics intuitively on one screen, solving both the information completeness and interface complexity issues.
2Speed
If drivers use mirrors to observe surrounding environment, then instant information is provided, but driver attention is limited to one direction at a time
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple camera feeds from different directions into a single integrated display that updates in real-time. This allows drivers to maintain attention in one direction while receiving instantaneous visual information from all surrounding directions simultaneously, resolving the contradiction between fast information delivery and multi-directional awareness.
3Measurement precision
If radar beams are used to detect distance and provide warnings, then specific directional risk information is provided, but a global view of surrounding conditions is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates radar detection data from multiple directions with visual camera feeds into a single unified display. This combination maintains the precise distance measurement capabilities of radar while adding the global contextual view provided by visual imagery, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and global awareness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a central processing unit as an intermediary that fuses data from multiple sensors (radar, cameras) and presents it in a unified visual interface. This intermediary function allows precise radar measurements to be contextualized within a global view of surrounding conditions, solving the information completeness problem.
4Loss of information
If cameras are used to capture front, rear, and side views, then visual information is provided, but information is presented one direction at a time
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously captures and processes video feeds from all camera directions simultaneously, updating the unified display in real-time without interruption. This continuous processing eliminates delays associated with sequential scanning or switching between views, maintaining both comprehensive visual coverage and instantaneous information delivery.
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AI summary
Methods for visual presentation of vehicle positioning relative to the surrounding objects using an electronic computer device are presented, the methods including: causing the electronic computing device to provide a display of the interested objects on a same interface according to their relative positions; enabling instant communications among the objects displayed on the same interface; enabling an instant screen sharing among the objects displayed on the same interface and among broader audiences. In some embodiments, the methods causing the electronic computing device to provide a display of the interested objects on a same interface according to their relative positions include: pre-processing and calibrating the image capturing devices; receiving a plurality of images; building a deep learning model; constructing a driving surface; applying a deep learning model to identify interested objects; determining positions of objects on a driving surface; and presenting the objects on the driving surface screen.