Occupant-Aware Vehicle Content Reproduction for Natural Conversation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle conversation technologies either lack a conversation subject, leading to psychological or physical burden on users, or are limited to ride-sharing with strangers, failing to accommodate family or acquaintance interactions.
Innovation Solution
A content reproduction apparatus that communicates with occupants' terminals, detects conversation levels, and reproduces managed content to promote interaction among family or acquaintances by specifying occupants and adjusting content based on relationship levels and destination information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If cutaneous sensory stimulation and thermal stimulation are applied to promote conversation, then conversation activation is improved, but psychological or physical burden on the user increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces content (music, videos, images) as an intermediary element that triggers conversation without directly stimulating the users' bodies or minds in a forced manner. The content serves as a neutral topic that occupants can voluntarily engage with, eliminating the psychological burden while maintaining conversation promotion.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows occupants to freely choose and interact with content from their personal terminals, enabling self-driven engagement rather than external imposition. The conversation promotion mechanism serves itself by using the occupants' own content libraries and preferences, eliminating the need for external sensory stimulation.
2Productivity
If a share-ride service targeting strangers is implemented, then conversation promotion for ride-sharing is improved, but adaptability to family or acquaintance interactions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal conversation promotion mechanism that works across all occupancy scenarios (strangers, family, acquaintances) by using content as a neutral trigger. The system identifies occupants through terminals and provides content that can be universally engaged with, making it adaptable to any relationship type without requiring scenario-specific customization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts content selection based on occupancy detection and relationship identification parameters. By changing the content parameters (music genre, video type, image theme) according to the detected occupancy context, the system maintains versatility across different interaction scenarios while promoting effective conversation.
Data Source
AI summary
A content reproduction apparatus is configured to reproduce content in a vehicle. The apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: communicating with terminals carried by a plurality of occupants riding in the vehicle, via a wireless communication; acquiring a conversation in the vehicle by the plurality of occupants as conversation information in a state where each of the plurality of occupants can be specified; detecting a conversation amount within a predetermined period based on the conversation information; acquiring content managed by a terminal among the terminals, carried by a predetermined occupant among the plurality of occupants, via the communication when it is determined that the conversation amount within the predetermined period is less than a predetermined value, and reproducing the content.