In-Vehicle Conference Display Layout for Shared and Personal Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to provide a unified conference experience while allowing individual settings for passengers in a moving vehicle, impacting the sense of unity and freedom during online conferences.

Innovation Solution

A moving object conference system with a management unit that manages conference information and displays shared and individual operation screens on a shared and individual touch panel, respectively, based on seat positions, enabling passengers to adjust settings like camera, voice, and display preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a common online conference is held inside a vehicle with multiple passengers, then information sharing among participants is improved, but individual setting freedom (such as conference voice adjustment and video provision) deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation sharingVSAvoidindividual setting freedom

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The conference system is segmented into shared functions (common to all passengers) and individual functions (specific to each passenger). The management unit separates conference information management into common settings displayed on shared displays and individual settings displayed on personal displays, allowing simultaneous information sharing and individual customization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different display devices provide different types of information tailored to their function. Shared display devices show common conference information for all participants, while individual display devices show personalized settings and controls. This local differentiation allows each display to serve its specific purpose while contributing to the overall conference experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If individual settings are allowed for each passenger, then freedom in conference participation is improved, but sense of unity among participants deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindividual setting freedomVSAvoidsense of unity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges shared display devices and individual display devices into a unified conference management system. The management unit coordinates both types of displays to work together, ensuring that individual customizations do not disrupt the overall conference experience and that all participants remain connected to the common conference environment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The display system is designed with multi-functionality to serve both shared and individual needs. The management unit can switch between displaying common conference information on shared devices and individual settings on personal devices, allowing the system to adapt to different operational modes while maintaining system-wide coherence.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Stability of the object's composition

If shared information is displayed on a shared display device, then sense of unity is improved, but individual operation capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesense of unityVSAvoidindividual operation capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display system is segmented into shared display devices for common information and individual display devices for personal operations. This segmentation allows the system to provide both unified conference information and personalized control interfaces, resolving the contradiction between sense of unity and individual operation capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Ease of operation

If individual operation screens are displayed on individual touch panels, then ease of individual operation is improved, but system complexity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindividual operation capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The management unit acts as an intermediary that coordinates between multiple individual touch panels and the central conference system. It manages the distribution of individual operation screens and collects settings from each passenger, simplifying the overall system architecture despite the presence of multiple individual interfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12610012B2Moving object conference system

Publication Date: 2026.04.21 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD

AI summary

A moving object conference system is a system for a passenger to participate in an online conference via a communication network in an interior of a moving object, and includes a management unit managing conference information which is communication information of the online conference, for each of interior participants participating in the online conference from the interior of the moving object, and the management unit, for a common online conference that the plurality of interior participants participate in, displays shared information to be distributed to all the participants of the common online conference, of the conference information, on a shared display device shared in the interior of the moving object, and displays an individual operation screen to be individually operated by the participant of the common online conference on an individual touch panel which can be individually operated by the interior participant from a seated position.