Vehicle Infotainment Media Selection via Navigation Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing infotainment systems for vehicles fail to intelligently select and provide media content based on vehicle-specific parameters, leading to interruptions and increased cognitive load for occupants, as they often rely on computer-centric metadata sorting and are not tailored to the dynamic nature of vehicle trips.

Innovation Solution

An infotainment system that uses vehicle navigation data, occupant identity, and environmental scene detection to dynamically select and provide media content, ensuring seamless playback and enhancing user experience by matching content duration with trip length and adjusting content based on real-time conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If media content is selected in advance of a trip, then occupant entertainment is provided, but selecting content is time-consuming and may not match trip duration

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveContent selection processVSAvoidTime spent selecting content

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically selecting and organizing media content based on trip parameters before the trip begins. The controller receives navigation data, calculates trip duration, and pre-selects appropriate content without requiring manual user selection, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The infotainment system serves itself by automatically selecting media content based on trip duration and other parameters. Instead of requiring the user to manually select content, the system autonomously makes selections based on predefined criteria, eliminating the time-consuming manual selection process while ensuring appropriate content is provided.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Duration of action of moving object

If media content duration does not match trip duration, then content may conclude before trip ends or extend beyond trip, but this causes boredom or requires interruption

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveMedia content durationVSAvoidPlayback continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Duration of action of moving objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts media content selection based on trip duration parameters. The controller calculates the expected trip length from navigation data and selects content whose duration matches the trip, ensuring continuous playback without interruption. This dynamic matching resolves the contradiction between content duration and playback continuity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of content duration to match the trip duration parameter. By selecting content based on calculated trip length, the system ensures that media content concludes at approximately the same time as the trip, avoiding both premature endings and post-trip continuation, thus maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If content is organized by computer-centric metadata, then information is systematically sorted, but selection is unimaginative and not tailored to vehicle context

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveContent organization efficiencyVSAvoidContext-aware content selection

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system combines multiple functions: it maintains efficient metadata-based organization for productivity while adding context-aware selection capabilities that consider trip duration, vehicle location, and occupant preferences. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making the system both efficient and adaptable to vehicle context.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from navigation data, trip parameters, and content playback status to intelligently select and manage media content. By incorporating contextual information about the vehicle trip, the system adapts content selection beyond simple metadata sorting, achieving both efficiency and context-awareness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Adaptability or versatility

If radio programs include advertisements and fundraising drives, then content variety is provided, but interruptions increase cognitive load

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveContent varietyVSAvoidCognitive load

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and removes unwanted elements such as advertisements and fundraising drives from the media content stream. By selecting specific content segments that exclude these interruptions, the system maintains content variety while reducing cognitive load, resolving the contradiction between versatility and ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11023515B2Infotainment based on vehicle navigation data

Publication Date: 2021.06.01 FARADAY&FUTURE INC

AI summary

A system for providing media content to an occupant of a vehicle may include a user interface configured to provide the media content to the occupant and a controller coupled to the user interface and to a database configured to store media content. The controller may be configured to receive vehicle navigation data, select a subset of media content from the media content stored in the database based on the vehicle navigation data, and provide the subset of media content through the user interface.