Vehicle Communication System with Sensor Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle communication systems fail to provide real-time vehicle and driver status to remote third parties, leading to potential driver distraction and a lack of understanding about the vehicle's situation, especially during ongoing communications.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that includes onboard sensors and cameras to capture vehicle environment information, which is then transmitted to a remote device via a transmitter, allowing for real-time monitoring of the vehicle's status and environment, including images and auditory information, to enhance situational awareness without distracting the driver.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If vehicle communication systems enable third party communication with driver, then driver can communicate hands-free with remote third party, but third party cannot understand driver situation and may contribute to driver distraction
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to the remote third party by transmitting driver situation information captured by onboard sensors and cameras. This allows the third party to understand the driver's current situation (such as whether the driver is occupied or distracted) while maintaining hands-free communication capability, thus resolving the information asymmetry problem.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising onboard sensors, cameras, and a transmitter that mediates between the driver and the remote third party. This intermediary captures and transmits driver situation information, enabling the third party to make informed decisions about communication without directly observing the driver, thus preventing distraction while maintaining communication ease.
2Device complexity
If no vehicle status information is provided to remote device, then communication system remains simple, but third party lacks understanding of vehicle and driver situation
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs multi-functional onboard components that serve both their primary functions and information gathering functions. For example, cameras and sensors used for vehicle monitoring are also utilized to capture driver situation data for transmission to remote devices, reducing the need for separate dedicated components and managing complexity while providing comprehensive information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary capture and processing of driver situation information using onboard sensors and cameras before transmission is needed. This preliminary action ensures that when communication occurs, the information is already prepared and available, reducing the complexity of real-time processing while ensuring information availability.
3Loss of information
If real-time vehicle environment information is transmitted to remote device, then third party gains situational awareness, but requires onboard sensors and transmission infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the driver situation monitoring function with existing vehicle communication infrastructure. By combining the transmitter used for communication with the information gathering function of onboard sensors and cameras, the system provides real-time information without requiring completely separate dedicated transmission hardware, thus managing complexity while achieving information transmission.
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AI summary
A method of communicating vehicle information, the method includes receiving, via a receiver, notification of an incoming communication from a remote device, capturing with a controller vehicle environment information from at least one onboard vehicle sensor device, transmitting, via a transmitter, the vehicle environment information to the remote device.