Vehicle Risk Display Sectors for Clear Hazard Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle risk detection systems do not effectively present risk information in a manner that is easily recognizable to occupants, leading to potential safety issues.
Innovation Solution
A risk presentation apparatus and method that identifies risk targets in the vehicle's surroundings and presents risk information through a sector-based image, highlighting sectors and using icons to represent target types, with multiple targets of the same type shown as a single icon in a sector, enhancing visibility and recognition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple risk targets of the same type are displayed with separate icons in each sector, then the information completeness is improved, but the visual clutter and recognition difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple icons of the same risk target type within a single sector into one consolidated icon. This merging principle reduces visual clutter while preserving the information that multiple targets of the same type are present, thereby resolving the contradiction between information completeness and recognition ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The single icon serves multiple functions: it represents the type of risk target, indicates the presence of multiple targets of that type, and maintains visual clarity. This multi-functionality allows the system to convey comprehensive information without increasing visual complexity.
2Reliability
If detailed risk information is presented to occupants, then the safety response accuracy is improved, but the presentation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the risk information presentation into distinct sectors corresponding to different directions around the vehicle. Each sector independently displays risk targets in its direction, allowing occupants to quickly locate risks spatially without being overwhelmed by a complex unified display.
Solution Approach 2:
Each sector is designed with specific local characteristics - displaying only the risk targets relevant to that direction - rather than showing all risk targets uniformly. This local quality approach simplifies the overall presentation complexity while maintaining comprehensive safety information.
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AI summary
A risk presentation apparatus presents risk information to an occupant of a vehicle. The risk presentation apparatus identifies a risk target present in surroundings of the vehicle and presents, to a user, a risk information image including a plurality of sectors respectively corresponding to a plurality of directions with respect to the vehicle. In a case where a risk target is present in a direction corresponding to an individual sector of the plurality of sectors, the apparatus highlights the individual sector, and includes an icon representing a type of the risk target in the individual sector. In a case where a plurality of risk targets of an identical type are present in the direction corresponding to the individual sector, the apparatus includes only one icon for the plurality of risk targets in the individual sector.