Vehicle Infotainment Touring With Location-Triggered Guide Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in finding experienced and affordable tour guides, and the process of searching for a good tour guide is time-consuming and inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle system that integrates with a server to provide tour information and navigation, allowing users to select tours based on their interests, and automatically provides audio, video, and textual content, as well as modifying vehicle settings, without the need for a tour guide.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users hire external tour guides to make tours engaging and informative, then the tour quality and user experience are improved, but the time and effort required to search for and hire a guide increases, and the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables the vehicle to automatically provide tour guiding services by itself. The vehicle accesses tour information from a server, processes it through the infotainment system, and delivers audio, video, and textual content without requiring external human guides. This self-service approach eliminates the time and effort of searching for guides while maintaining tour quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between users and tour information. The server stores and manages comprehensive tour data, acting as a mediator that provides high-quality tour content to the vehicle system. This intermediary structure delivers expert-level tour information without requiring users to directly engage with external tour guides.
2Reliability
If users hire experienced and skilled tour guides, then the tour information quality is improved, but the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses digital copies of tour information stored on a server instead of relying on physical human guides. The infotainment system accesses and plays back pre-recorded audio, video, and textual tour content, providing consistent high-quality information delivery without the additional costs associated with hiring experienced human guides.
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle's infotainment system is designed to perform multiple functions, including entertainment, navigation, and tour guiding. By integrating tour information delivery into the existing infotainment infrastructure, the system provides expert-level tour guidance without requiring separate expensive external services.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users search for and hire tour guides, then personalized tour experiences can be obtained, but the process becomes complex and inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically provides personalized tour experiences through the vehicle's infotainment system. Users can select from various tour categories (nature, history, food, science, etc.) and the system automatically accesses and delivers the appropriate tour content without requiring users to navigate complex hiring processes or interact with external services.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle including a transceiver, a telematics control unit and a processor is disclosed. The transceiver may be configured to receive tour information associated with a tour, and the telematics control unit may be determine a real-time vehicle geolocation. The processor may be configured to obtain a trigger signal, and obtain the tour information and the real-time vehicle geolocation responsive to obtaining the trigger signal. The processor may be further configured to determine that a predefined condition may be met based on the tour information and the real-time vehicle geolocation. The processor may modify a first vehicle component setting associated with a vehicle component to a second vehicle component setting, responsive to determining that the predefined condition may be met.