Passenger Path Estimation Avoiding Constrained Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies fail to accurately represent flight paths to passengers, often leading to misinterpretation and negative reactions due to the inclusion of constrained areas such as conflict zones or areas associated with negative emotions.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an in-flight entertainment system that determines and displays a path that avoids constrained areas by using actual navigation data and additional waypoints to provide a more accurate representation of the flight route.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a straight-line path between consecutive waypoints is displayed, then the path is simple to calculate and display, but it may intersect constrained areas causing passenger concern
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary processed path that mediates between the simple straight-line path and the complex actual flight path. This intermediary path is generated by detecting intersections with constrained areas and modifying the path to avoid them, thus eliminating passenger concern while maintaining computational simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and removes the problematic segments of the straight-line path that intersect with constrained areas. By taking out these harmful portions and replacing them with alternative routing, the system eliminates passenger concern without requiring display of the complete complex actual flight path.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the actual flight path avoiding constrained areas is displayed, then passenger concern is reduced, but the path representation becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
Rather than displaying the complete complex actual flight path, the patent creates an intermediary path that captures only the essential deviation from the straight-line path needed to avoid constrained areas. This intermediary representation reduces complexity while maintaining the benefit of showing constraint avoidance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by modifying only the specific segments of the path that intersect with constrained areas, rather than displaying the entire complex actual flight path. This localized modification approach reduces overall path complexity while maintaining accuracy where it matters most for passenger concern.
3Ease of operation
If simplified path information is provided to passengers, then the display is easier to understand, but accuracy of route representation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates an intermediary path representation that serves as a mediator between the overly simple straight-line path and the overly complex actual flight path. This intermediary path maintains ease of understanding by being simpler than the actual path while improving accuracy by incorporating constraint avoidance, thus achieving both passenger understanding and route accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments described herein relate to providing path information of a vehicle to vehicle passengers, and the provided path information may be configured according to passenger-related constraints. In one embodiment, a method for providing passenger-oriented path information via an in-flight entertainment system is described. The method includes making a determination that a graphical display of an estimated first path of the commercial passenger vehicle traveling via a route between an origin and a destination intersects a constrained area. The estimated first path is estimated as a straight-line path between consecutive waypoints along the route. The method further includes, based on the determination that the estimated first path intersects the constrained area, determining a second path for display that does not intersect the constrained area. The method further includes causing a display of the second path on an IFE display associated with a passenger.