Vehicle Video Audio System Individual Display Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional vehicle video/audio systems cannot allow individual users to display different video/audio content, and there is no efficient method for sharing video/audio or navigating maps among users, limiting user experience and driving safety.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a primary video/audio device with a microprocessor and network interface, and secondary devices with decoding capabilities and operation interfaces, enabling wireless or wired network communication for individual content display and sharing, including a method for recording system status for seamless restarts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a primary device decodes a single video/audio signal source for multiple display panels, then the system structure is simple, but different users cannot watch different video/audio signal sources simultaneously

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveindividual content display capabilityVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the video/audio processing function into multiple independent decoding devices, each capable of decoding different signal sources. This segmentation allows each display panel to receive independently decoded content, enabling different users to watch different content simultaneously while maintaining individual device independence

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A control device is introduced as an intermediary to manage the networked system. The control device receives user selections and coordinates the decoding and display across multiple devices, enabling individual content selection without requiring direct complex interconnections between all components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If display panels are connected via cables to receive video signals, then the connection is stable, but users cannot share media content or navigate maps among themselves

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoidnavigating information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a network interface that enables multiple functions including media content sharing and navigation map sharing across all devices. This universal communication interface allows any device to share its displayed content with others, and to receive and display navigation information from any source, eliminating information loss through centralized management

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If the system shuts down without recording status, then the operation is simple, but the video/audio display cannot be recovered after restart

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay recoveryVSAvoidstatus recording mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control device records the status information of each decoding device before shutdown occurs. This preliminary recording action captures which device is displaying which content, enabling the system to automatically restore the previous display configuration after restart without requiring manual reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP1971143B1System of individually and separately displaying and sharing video/audio and method of the same
Publication Date: 2014.05.14 FUNTORO
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a system of individually and separately displaying and sharing of video/audio that is used in an vehicle, comprises: a primary video/audio device (10) having a micro processor (19), a storing device (11) for storing various of digital video/audio information owned by a user for displaying in secondary video/audio devices (30) and a network interface (31), the primary video/audio device (10) provides at least one service of displaying digital video/audio information; and a plurality of secondary video/audio devices (30), each of the secondary video/audio devices (30) is provided with a digital video/audio encoding device (34), a network interface, a display panel (32) or a video/audio output interface (35) and an operation interface (33), and the operation interface (33) is provided with a display key (3332) and a share key (331); each of the secondary video/audio devices (30) can individually and at-any-time applies a service request to the primary video/audio device (10) and obtains a related service, such as video/audio displaying, or one of the secondary video/audio devices (30) can invite the other secondary video/audio devices (30) to share what is displayed on the display panel (32) by pressing the share key (331). A method of sharing vehicle navigating maps is also disclosed by the present invention.