In-Vehicle Content Distribution via Localized Seat Access Stations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current in-vehicle entertainment systems lack the ability to selectively distribute and access digital content to individual seat locations within a vehicle, often broadcasting content from a single source to all occupants without options for personalized content selection.
Innovation Solution
An in-vehicle entertainment system with a content distribution system that communicatively couples with digital content access stations at various seat locations, allowing for selective transmission of digital content from a mobile device or other sources to individual stations, which can then share or relay content wirelessly or via wired connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If content is broadcast to all seat locations simultaneously, then content distribution speed is improved, but energy consumption and system complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by enabling content distribution to be tailored to specific seat locations rather than uniformly broadcasting to all seats. The content access stations at different locations can independently receive and process content, allowing the system to activate only the necessary local nodes rather than energizing the entire vehicle entertainment system, thus reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining distribution speed
2Device complexity
If a global entertainment system is used for content distribution, then system simplicity is improved, but device complexity and lack of selective access worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the entertainment system into segmented content access stations at each seat, where each station operates as an independent unit with localized control capabilities. This segmentation allows the system to maintain overall simplicity through standardized modular units while providing selective access functionality at each location, as each station can independently manage its own content access without requiring complex centralized control
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AI summary
A method of distributing digital content to occupants of a vehicle using an in-vehicle entertainment system is provided. The method includes providing the digital content to a content distribution system. The digital content is selectively transmitted from the content distribution system to only one or some of a plurality of digital content access stations associated with seat locations within the vehicle. The digital content from the at least one of the plurality of digital content access stations is selectively transmitted to another of the plurality of digital content access stations.