Vehicle Sensory Experience System Using Optical Projection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customizing or changing the interior of a vehicle is often costly and inconvenient after purchase, limiting the ability to personalize the sensory experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that captures, shares, and recreates sensory experiences within a vehicle using sensors, projectors, and communication with remote servers, allowing users to customize or augment their in-car experience through device data generated from sensed data, which can be downloaded or manually set.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If physical interior components are modified to customize vehicle experience, then personalization capability is improved, but cost and convenience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses projectors to create virtual images that copy and overlay exterior scenes onto interior surfaces, allowing users to customize their visual experience without physical modifications. This virtual copying approach enables personalization while avoiding the high costs and inconvenience of physical interior changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical/physical interior modification systems with an optical projection system. Instead of physically altering interior components, the system uses light projection to transform the visual appearance and sensory experience, substituting mechanical customization with optical illusion technology.
2Adaptability or versatility
If physical interior components are modified to customize vehicle experience, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates virtual copies of exterior environments and projects them inside the vehicle, enabling easy personalization through software control rather than physical assembly. Users can change their interior experience by selecting different projection content, making the system highly adaptable and easy to operate.
Solution Approach 2:
The projection system allows dynamic reconfiguration of the interior environment in real-time. Users can change visual appearances, sensory experiences, and atmospheric conditions on demand through electronic controls, providing both high adaptability and operational convenience without the constraints of fixed physical installations.
3Ease of manufacture
If virtual images are projected onto interior surfaces, then ease of manufacture is improved, but visual clarity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a specialized projection surface as an intermediary between the projector and the final visual output. This surface is designed to enhance light reflection and image clarity, mediating between the projected light and the viewer's perception to maintain visual quality while preserving the ease of virtual customization approach.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs surfaces with specific optical properties that enhance light reflection and image visibility. By carefully selecting and designing the optical characteristics of projection surfaces, the system maintains visual clarity while continuing to use the cost-effective virtual projection approach rather than physical modifications.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods directed to creating a sensory experience in a vehicle are described herein. Data may be received from one or more sources. Device data may be generated based at least in part on the received data. One or more output components associated with the vehicle may be identified. The device data may be transmitted to one or more output components for output to a user of the vehicle.