Touring Circuitry for Immersive Multi-Sensory Vehicle Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Tourists often overlook the significance of attractions during guided tours due to divided attention between learning and navigation, and existing solutions like GPS systems lack engaging information, while guided tours can be expensive and uncomfortable with strangers.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus using touring circuitry and an augmented-reality system that stimulates multiple sensory inputs, including audio, lighting, olfactory, temperature, haptic, and visual effects, to create an immersive experience while navigating through a touring theater, with optional remote control and live actor triggers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a professional guide is hired to provide comprehensive information, then the quality of information delivery is improved, but the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of a professional guide through an automated speech-processing system coupled with GPS. This virtual guide delivers comprehensive tour information without requiring a human guide physically present, thereby reducing cost while maintaining information quality. The system copies the knowledge base and delivery capability of a professional guide into software form.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service tourism by providing automated guidance through speech-processing and GPS technology. Tourists receive comprehensive information without needing to hire a guide or join a group tour, making the service independent and accessible to individuals at lower cost.
2Loss of information
If a guided bus tour is taken with other tourists, then comprehensive information is provided, but comfort and privacy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The automated guidance system allows tourists to travel independently in their own vehicles while receiving comprehensive tour information. This eliminates the need to share transportation with strangers, providing both complete information delivery and personal comfort/privacy simultaneously.
3Quantity of substance
If a guidebook and map are used for self-guided touring, then cost is reduced, but the complexity of navigation and information processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual navigation tools (guidebooks and physical maps) with an automated electronic system combining GPS and speech-processing. This substitution maintains low cost while dramatically reducing navigation complexity, as the system automatically tracks location and provides contextually relevant information without requiring the tourist to manually interpret maps or coordinates.
Solution Approach 2:
The GPS-speech processing system acts as an intermediary between the tourist and the tour information. It automatically processes location data and delivers appropriate information, eliminating the need for the tourist to directly manage complex navigation tasks while keeping costs low through automated rather than human-mediated service.
4Reliability
If a global-positioning system is used to prevent getting lost, then navigation reliability is improved, but the quality of tour information delivery deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges GPS navigation functionality with speech-processing information delivery into a single integrated system. The GPS provides reliable location tracking while the coupled speech-processing system enriches this with contextual tour information, historical data, and narrative content. The two functions work together synergistically rather than separately, delivering both navigation reliability and information quality simultaneously.
5Loss of information
If speech-processing is used to provide tour narration, then information delivery is improved, but passenger engagement deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from one-dimensional speech-only delivery to multi-dimensional engagement by incorporating visual elements through video displays and augmented reality components. This adds spatial and visual dimensions to the information delivery, creating a more immersive and engaging experience that maintains information quality while significantly improving passenger engagement through multiple sensory channels.
Data Source
AI summary
Touring circuitry for managing an immersion tour as a vehicle traverses a path through a touring theatre receives location information and provides control signals to an augmented-reality system based on a location of the vehicle in the touring theater. The control signals cause the augmented-reality system to stimulate at least two sensory inputs of a passenger.