In-Vehicle Touchscreen Control for Safer Streaming Box Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing streaming devices in transportation apparatuses, such as remote controls, can be lost or move unpredictably, posing risks to passengers and causing damage, while also lacking convenient control methods for audio/video and multimedia content.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing a touch-sensitive input device integrated with a touchscreen in a transportation apparatus, allowing users to input commands through gestures on the touchscreen, which are then analyzed and executed by a streaming box to control and display content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a remote control unit is used to control the streaming box, then the control function is provided, but the remote control unit can be lost or move unpredictably causing injury or damage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the control interface and display into a single integrated touchscreen device mounted in the transportation apparatus. This merging eliminates the separate remote control unit that could become a projectile, while maintaining full control functionality through the integrated touch interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mounted touchscreen interface as an intermediary between the user and the streaming box. This intermediary provides stable, fixed control points that eliminate the need for handheld remote controls, thereby preventing injury while maintaining ease of operation.
2Reliability
If hardware-designed controls are used for controlling audio/video content, then control functionality is provided, but the control interface lacks flexibility and user-friendliness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces hardware-designed mechanical controls with a touch-sensitive interface. This substitution provides the reliability of fixed control points while adding the flexibility and user-friendliness of touch-based interaction, allowing for intuitive control without mechanical moving parts.
3Ease of operation
If a touch-sensitive input device is integrated in the transportation apparatus, then control safety and convenience are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional touchscreen interface that serves as both the control input device and the display device. This universal approach consolidates multiple functions into a single integrated component, reducing overall system complexity while improving ease of operation and safety.
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AI summary
A method for using a touch-sensitive input device arranged in a transportation apparatus and for displaying display content transmitted from a streaming box arranged in the transportation apparatus by way a display device arranged in the transportation apparatus is provided. The method includes detecting input data of a user input on the touch-sensitive input device by way of the touch-sensitive input device, ascertaining a display element, which corresponds to the input data of the user input, of a first display content and/or of a specified command, which corresponds to the input data of the user input, by way of the streaming box, and in response thereto, displaying a second display content transmitted from the streaming box by way of the display device of the transportation apparatus.