Vehicle Media Adaptation via Driving Dynamics Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Drivers and passengers experience boredom during monotonous driving sections, particularly in traffic jams or with automated vehicles, and existing systems fail to provide engaging and immersive entertainment.
Innovation Solution
A method that acquires and transmits current and future driving dynamics information and camera images between vehicles, allowing synchronized playback on display devices to create an immersive experience, and optionally includes additional information like audio and status updates, enhancing social interaction and preventing motion sickness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional infotainment systems are used for entertainment, then passengers can consume media content, but the experience is not immersive and does not account for vehicle movement
Solution Approach 1:
The system estimates future driving dynamics information in advance before it actually occurs, allowing the media content to be pre-adapted to upcoming vehicle movements. This preliminary estimation enables the system to prepare synchronized playback parameters ahead of time, improving adaptability without requiring complex real-time processing during actual movement events.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors current driving dynamics information and uses it as feedback to adjust media content delivery. By comparing actual vehicle movement with estimated future movement, the system dynamically synchronizes media playback with real-world vehicle behavior, creating an immersive experience that adapts to actual driving conditions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If media content is provided without synchronization to vehicle movement, then the system is simple, but the experience is not immersive and fails to engage passengers
Solution Approach 1:
Future driving dynamics information is estimated in advance, allowing the system to pre-calculate synchronization parameters for media content. This preliminary action enables complex immersive experiences to be prepared beforehand, reducing the need for complex real-time processing while maintaining high adaptability to vehicle movement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces driving dynamics information as an intermediary element that mediates between the media content and the vehicle's actual movement. This intermediary data layer enables synchronization without requiring direct complex interaction between media players and vehicle control systems, simplifying the overall architecture while achieving immersive effects.
3Adaptability or versatility
If camera images are transmitted between vehicles without matching driving dynamics, then data can be shared, but motion sickness may occur and the experience becomes disorienting
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies specific matching criteria to driving dynamics parameters such as acceleration, deceleration, and turning movements. By focusing on locally matching these specific quality attributes rather than requiring complete identity between vehicles, the system ensures synchronization accuracy while allowing for natural variations in driving behavior, thereby preventing motion sickness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces tolerance limits as parameter changes that allow driving dynamics to vary within acceptable ranges while maintaining synchronization. This approach transforms the rigid requirement for exact matching into a flexible parameter-based system that accommodates natural driving variations, preventing disorientation and motion sickness while maintaining immersive experience quality.
4Loss of time
If future driving dynamics information is estimated, then media content can be synchronized in advance, but additional processing requirements increase system complexity
Solution Approach 1:
Future driving dynamics information is estimated in advance to eliminate synchronization delays. By performing the estimation action preliminarily, the system prepares all necessary synchronization data before media content needs to be delivered, ensuring zero or minimal delay while distributing processing load over time rather than requiring intensive real-time processing.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for providing media content (2) which is adapted to the movement of a vehicle (1.1, 1.2, 1.3), having at least the following steps: detecting current driving dynamic information of at least one first vehicle (1.1); estimating future driving dynamic information of at least the first vehicle (1.1); transmitting the current and future driving dynamic information and camera images recorded by a vehicle camera (3) to a central computing unit (4); providing the current and/or future driving dynamic information and the camera images for outputting purposes in a third-party device (5); and/or identifying driving dynamic information of at least one second vehicle (1.2) which corresponds at least to the current and/or the future driving dynamic information of the first vehicle (1.1); transmitting the current and/or future driving dynamic information and the camera images of at least the second vehicle (1.2) to the first vehicle (1.1); and outputting at least the camera images of the second vehicle (1.2) on at least one display device (6) of the first vehicle (1.1).