Display method
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsHeather L. Beineke, Douglas A. Srail, Mark A. Kady
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Abstract
A method includes detecting, with a sensor, a gaze of an occupant of a vehicle. The gaze is directed to at least one vehicle displays. The method also includes determining, with a controller circuit in communication with the sensor, whether one or more features presented on the at vehicle displays are partially obstructed from a view of the occupant. When the one or more features presented on vehicle displays are partially obstructed from the view of the occupant, the controller circuit adjusts a presentation of at least one partially obstructed features to be viewable by the occupant.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining, with a controller circuit in communication with a sensor of a vehicle and at least one vehicle display, whether one or more features presented on the at least one vehicle display are at least partially obstructed from a view of an occupant of the vehicle, the sensor being configured to detect a gaze of the occupant directed to the at least one vehicle display;
- and
- in accordance with the determination that the one or more features presented on the at least one vehicle display are at least partially obstructed from the view of the occupant;
- adjusting, with the controller circuit, a presentation of at least one partially obstructed feature to be viewable by the occupant
- storing, with the controller circuit, an indication of the adjusted presentation of the at least one vehicle display in a memory;
- and
- restoring, from the memory and based on the indication of the adjusted presentation, the adjusted presentation of the at least one vehicle display upon detecting that the occupant reentered the vehicle.
A system comprising:
- a sensor configured to detect a gaze of an occupant of a vehicle, wherein the gaze is directed to at least one vehicle display;
- and
- a controller circuit operably connected to the sensor and the at least one vehicle display, the controller circuit configured to:
- determine whether one or more features presented on the at least one vehicle display are at least partially obstructed from a view of the occupant;
- and
- responsive to a determination that the one or more features presented on the at least one vehicle display are at least partially obstructed from the view of the occupant:
- adjust a presentation of at least one partially obstructed feature to be viewable by the occupant;
- store an indication of the adjusted presentation of the at least one vehicle display in a memory;
- and
- restore, from the memory and based on the indication of the adjusted presentation, the adjusted presentation of the at least one vehicle display upon a detection that the occupant reentered the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.