In-Flight Entertainment System Virtual Information Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Passenger entertainment systems on mobile platforms primarily focus on entertainment, providing limited information to passengers about the aircraft's operations, crew routines, and available services, leaving a gap in passenger engagement and understanding of their surroundings.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes an in-flight entertainment system to provide virtual information to passengers through a display device, including a virtual information control system with modules for generating and displaying galley, flight deck, and flight data, along with avatars, allowing passengers to request and interact with information about their surroundings, such as food services and aircraft status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the in-flight entertainment system is used primarily for entertainment purposes, then passenger engagement through games and movies is improved, but information delivery about aircraft operations and services deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The entertainment system is transformed into a multi-functional platform that simultaneously provides entertainment content and delivers operational information. The display device and control system serve dual purposes: presenting movies and games while also showcasing aircraft status, crew routines, and service information, thereby resolving the contradiction between entertainment focus and information delivery
2Loss of information
If the entertainment system provides comprehensive information about aircraft operations, then passenger understanding improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the information delivery function with the existing entertainment system infrastructure. Rather than creating a separate complex information system, it combines operational data display with entertainment content delivery using shared hardware resources (display device, processor, memory), thereby providing comprehensive information while minimizing additional system complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If personalized information is provided to each passenger, then passenger experience is improved, but data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements local quality by tailoring information display to individual passenger contexts. Each passenger receives personalized content based on their seat location, preferences, and demographic data, with the system dynamically adjusting displayed information to match local passenger characteristics and needs, thereby improving personalization while managing data processing through targeted rather than universal customization
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AI summary
A system for providing information to at least one passenger onboard a mobile platform (such as a train, marine vessel, aircraft or automobile) is provided. The system includes a display device that displays the information. The system also includes a source of user input coupled to the display device that enables the at least one passenger to request the information. The information includes at least galley information. The system further includes a galley control module that generates galley data that includes at least one food service item available onboard the mobile platform, and a graphical user interface module that displays the at least one food service item available onboard the mobile platform to enable the at least one passenger to select at least one of the at least one food service item.