AR Head-Up Display Route Replay With GPS-Triggered Annotations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current automobile vehicle camera and route recording systems lack the ability to annotate and replay routes with picture and voice data, making it difficult to share and re-display travel experiences between vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a camera and microphone array in the first vehicle to record and annotate routes, which can be uploaded to a website and downloaded to a second vehicle for replay on a head-up or head-down display, allowing users to relive the route with voice and image annotations, and enabling users to add rankings and updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a route recording system records and shares basic route data, then the route information can be shared between users, but the system lacks picture annotation capability and re-display capability in a format available to a second automobile vehicle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple data types (camera images, voice recordings, GPS coordinates, route data) into a single integrated recorded-route-replay file. This merging allows comprehensive travel experience information to be captured and shared together, resolving the limitation of basic route data sharing without annotations
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy of the first vehicle's travel experience (images, voice, route) that can be played back in the second vehicle. This copying approach preserves the original travel experience while making it accessible to other users, enabling information retention and sharing
2Loss of information
If the system integrates camera, microphone, GPS, and display components for comprehensive route annotation and replay, then travel experience sharing is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functional components that serve multiple purposes: the camera captures both route visualization and point-of-interest images, the microphone records both ambient sound and voice annotations, and the system handles both recording and replay functions. This universality reduces the need for separate dedicated components for each function
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that receives recorded-route-replay files from first vehicles, stores them, and distributes them to second vehicles. This intermediary approach simplifies the direct vehicle-to-vehicle communication complexity while enabling comprehensive data exchange
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system allows users to add voice annotations and rankings to route data, then the travel experience sharing becomes more engaging and informative, but the data processing and management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary organization of diverse data types (images, voice, GPS) into a structured recorded-route-replay format during the recording phase. This preliminary structuring simplifies subsequent processing, storage, and replay operations by establishing a consistent data framework upfront
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AI summary
A method for replaying route data with annotation for re-display comprises: recording a recorded-route-replay by a first user of a first automobile vehicle and saving the recorded-route-replay to a website; electing to trigger playback of the recorded-route-replay by a second user of a second automobile vehicle and entering a predetermined key word by the second user to trigger playback; contacting a website and downloading from the website GPS tagged pictures for a predetermined next trip travel distance of the second automobile vehicle; and retrieving one of the GPS tagged pictures when a GPS trigger location is reached during the trip of the second automobile vehicle and displaying the one of the GPS tagged pictures on an image screen of a head-up display of second automobile vehicle.