Vehicle Display System Route-Adaptive Virtual Sequences

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current entertainment options in motor vehicles, particularly with advancements in autonomous driving, lack a coherent and realistic virtual experience that adapts to the route characteristics, leading to repetitive and unsatisfying virtual experiences for occupants.

Innovation Solution

A method for operating a display device in a motor vehicle that provides multiple virtual sequences, dynamically adapting them to route characteristics, ensuring a coherent story by combining start and end sequences with individually selected sequences that match the route's features, such as height profile, curve profile, and duration, while avoiding repetition through user feedback and sequence tracking.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple virtual sequences are provided and dynamically selected based on route characteristics, then the realism and coherence of virtual experience is improved, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoherence of virtual experienceVSAvoidsequence management system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The virtual experience content is divided into multiple individual sequences that can be independently selected and played back. Each sequence represents a discrete segment of the overall virtual experience, allowing the system to compile and manage them separately based on route characteristics without requiring complex real-time generation of entire experiences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple virtual sequences are pre-provided and stored in the display device before the journey begins. The system performs preliminary compilation of these sequences based on known route characteristics, so that during actual playback, the system only needs to retrieve and display pre-processed content rather than generating it in real-time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If individual sequences are dynamically adapted to route characteristics such as elevation profile, curve profile, and duration, then the virtual experience becomes more realistic, but the data processing and selection complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptation to route characteristicsVSAvoidroute analysis system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Different virtual sequences are selected and adapted to match specific local characteristics of the route. Instead of applying a uniform virtual experience throughout the entire journey, the system tailors the content to local conditions such as elevation changes, curve profiles, and duration of specific route segments, creating a more realistic and context-appropriate experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Reliability

If sequences are selected and played back in a predetermined order to form a coherent story, then the coherence of virtual experience is improved, but the flexibility in responding to real-time route variations decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenarrative coherenceVSAvoidreal-time adaptation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The sequence selection and playback order is made dynamic rather than completely fixed. While there is a predetermined structure to maintain narrative coherence, the system can adapt the selection of individual sequences based on real-time route characteristics, allowing flexibility in which specific pre-defined sequences are chosen while maintaining the overall coherent structure of the virtual experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3814162B1Method for operating a display device in a motor vehicle and display system for a motor vehicle
Publication Date: 2022.06.15 AUDI AG
  • EP3814162B1 patent drawing

AI summary

The invention relates to a method for operating a display device (3) in a motor vehicle (1) while travelling a route with the motor vehicle (1), comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of virtual individual sequences, which can be reproduced by means of the display device (3); reproducing at least some of the provided individual sequences by means of the display device (3) while travelling the route with the motor vehicle (1), a selection and definition of a reproduction order of the individual sequences appropriate for a characteristic of the route takes place in such a way that the individual sequences link a predetermined introductory sequence and end sequence to give a conclusive experience. The invention further relates to a display system (5) for a motor vehicle (1), comprising a display device (3) and a control device (4).