Ticket-Linked Vehicle Control for In-Transit Event Streaming

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users attending entertainment events often arrive late due to transportation challenges, disrupting their viewing experience, and existing solutions do not provide seamless access to event content during transportation.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and method that uses autonomous vehicles to transport users to and from entertainment sites, where the vehicle electronically reads entertainment tickets, identifies the site, generates movement instructions, receives and decodes picture data from the site, and provides real-time entertainment content to users, allowing them to watch events even after arriving late.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If users use traditional transportation to reach entertainment sites, then transportation time and flexibility are limited, but users can arrive late and miss event content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearrival time flexibilityVSAvoidaccess to event content
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system transmits and displays copied visual content of the entertainment event on screens within the autonomous vehicle, allowing users to view the event content during transportation without missing any moments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The autonomous vehicle picks up users before the event starts and begins transmitting event content immediately, ensuring users can view the event from the beginning even though they are in transit

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If users arrive early to entertainment sites, then they can watch the event from the beginning, but transportation scheduling becomes rigid and inconvenient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescheduling flexibilityVSAvoidevent content access
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides real-time visual copies of the event content through screens in the autonomous vehicle, eliminating the need for users to arrive early to see the event from the beginning

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the entertainment delivery by transmitting live event content to moving users, allowing flexible scheduling while ensuring continuous access to event content regardless of arrival time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of operation

If autonomous vehicles provide real-time event content during transportation, then users can watch events from the vehicle, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The autonomous vehicle system integrates multiple functions including transportation, ticket validation, real-time content transmission, and display capabilities into a single unified platform, managing complexity through functional integration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11006163B2Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Publication Date: 2021.05.11 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

There is provided an information processing apparatus that controls a movable body that transports a user holding an entertainment ticket to and/or from an entertainment site where an entertainment is performed, the information processing apparatus including a control unit that executes: electronically reading the entertainment ticket held by the user; identifying the entertainment site associated with the entertainment ticket; generating an instruction for causing the movable body to move for transporting the user to the identified entertainment site; receiving picture data transmitted from the identified entertainment site; and providing a picture obtained by decoding the picture data to the user on board the movable body.