Wireless Tour Guide System with Interactive User Equipment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wireless devices used for tour experiences are uni-directional, making it difficult for participants to hear the tour guide, especially in noisy environments, and do not allow for interaction or personalization of the tour.
Innovation Solution
A system that integrates a presentation management component (PMC) with user equipment (UE) to provide interactive services, including broadcast communications, uni-cast communications, UE clustering, customized tour recommendations, note-taking, and targeted advertisements, allowing users to interact with the tour experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional wireless devices are used for tour experiences, then the basic tour function is provided, but participants cannot hear the tour guide clearly in noisy environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces wireless communication devices as intermediaries between the tour guide and participants. These devices receive the guide's speech wirelessly and deliver it directly to participants' ears, acting as a mediator that bypasses the noisy environment and ensures clear information reception.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical acoustic system (guide's voice traveling through air) with an electronic wireless communication system. This substitution eliminates the harmful effect of noise interference by transmitting information through electromagnetic fields rather than acoustic waves that are susceptible to environmental noise.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional wireless devices are used for tours, then basic information delivery is achieved, but interaction and personalization features are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes conventional wireless devices universal by enabling them to perform multiple functions: receiving tour guide information, allowing participant interactions, providing personalization options, and enabling communication between participants. This multi-functionality increases adaptability without requiring entirely new specialized devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic features that allow the tour experience to adapt in real-time based on participant needs. Participants can interact with the guide, request information, and personalize their experience dynamically during the tour, transforming a static unidirectional system into a dynamic interactive one.
3Area of stationary object
If the tour guide speaks loudly to reach all participants, then coverage is improved, but ambient noise and other speakers still interfere with information reception
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless communication devices act as intermediaries that receive the guide's speech directly and deliver it to participants without the speech needing to travel through the noisy ambient air. This eliminates the need for the guide to speak loudly while maintaining full coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical acoustic propagation system with an electronic wireless transmission system. This substitution allows information to be delivered to all participants regardless of ambient noise levels or distance from the guide, eliminating the need to increase speaking volume.
4Productivity
If multiple tour groups visit the same landmark simultaneously, then tourism capacity is increased, but it becomes difficult for participants to identify their group
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) by assigning distinct visual identifiers to different tour groups through the wireless communication devices. This allows participants to easily identify their group even when multiple groups are present, maintaining low difficulty of detection while supporting high tour capacity.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and devices that provide interactive services relating to an information presentation to user equipment (UE) are presented. A presentation management component (PMC) provides at least a portion of the information presentation to one or more UEs, which can be integrated with the PMC, to facilitate enabling one or more UE users to use interactive services in relation to a tour of a point(s) of interest associated with the PMC. The interactive services comprise, for example, broadcast communications to desired UEs in a tour group, UE clustering, customized tour recommendations, whiteboard feature, note-taking functions, “slow down” option, and “raise hand” option. Respective UEs in a group are configured to be a master UE, sub-master UE, or slave UE, wherein the master UE at least partially controls communications of the other UEs in the group, and the sub-master UE at least partially controls communications of UEs in a sub-group.