Vehicular Control Apparatus Road Data Weighting

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Solution Overview

Problem

The infrastructure cooperative system using electric wave communication generates a large amount of data, leading to increased operation loads during information processing, as existing systems lack efficient methods to manage and process this data effectively.

Innovation Solution

A vehicular control apparatus is developed with an obtaining device to receive electric waves and obtain road data, and a weighting device to assign importance to each road data set, allowing for the selection and deletion of more critical information, thereby reducing the operational load during processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If all road data from electric wave communication is processed, then complete information is available, but operation load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of road dataVSAvoidinformation processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the necessary road data from the complete set of communication data by using weighting information to identify and retain only those data elements that are essential for determining service road entry, thereby reducing processing load while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different weighting values to different portions of road data based on their individual importance, allowing the system to treat each data element differently according to its specific relevance rather than processing all data uniformly

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Productivity

If weighting information is assigned to all road data, then data prioritization is achieved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing efficiencyVSAvoiddata management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary assignment of weighting information to road data before the actual data processing occurs, allowing the system to pre-organize data according to importance and avoid complex real-time decision-making during processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9204261B2Vehicular control apparatus
Publication Date: 2015.12.01 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A vehicular control apparatus (1) is provided with: an obtaining device (3) capable of receiving an electric wave from an electric wave communication base (E10, E20, N10 etc.) which emits the electric wave for providing driving assistance service to a plurality of vehicles which respectively drive on a plurality of service roads (10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, 20A etc.), and of obtaining a plurality of road data (520A, 520B, 520C, 520D) respectively corresponding to the plurality of service roads managed by the electric wave communication base; and a weighting device (140) for applying, to each of the obtained plurality of road data, weighting information indicating importance for specifying one service road that one vehicle enters and indicating importance for providing the driving assistance services in association with the one service road.