System and method for a vehicle zone-determined reconfigurable display
AssigneeAutoConnect Holdings LLC
InventorChristopher Ricci
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Abstract
Methods and systems for a heads-up configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input.
Claims22
A method of configuring a heads-up display (“HUD”) of a vehicle dash, comprising:
- receiving an input at the GUI, wherein the input corresponds to an instruction to minimize at least a first layout of a vehicle dash information and maximize at least a second layout of the vehicle dash information, and wherein the second layout of the vehicle dash information is visually different from the first layout of the same vehicle dash information;
- displaying the first and second layout of the vehicle dash information by at least one of the GUI or the HUD, wherein at least one of the GUI or HUD is partitioned into two or more zones, wherein a first zone of the two or more zones is configured to display the first layout of the vehicle dash information, and wherein a second zone of the two or more zones is configured to display the second layout of the same vehicle dash information, wherein the minimizing of the first layout and maximizing of the second layout is by sliding a zone partition either left, right, up, or down at the GUI input by at least one of touch or gesture input.
A method of configuring an appearance of at least one application shown on a display of a vehicle dash, comprising:
- displaying, at a same time, at least a first and second appearance of the at least one application on at least one of a graphical user interface (“GUI”) or a HUD unit, wherein the one application corresponds to one or more instruments associated with the vehicle dash, and wherein the at least first appearance corresponds to a first aesthetic of the one application and at least the second appearance corresponds to a second aesthetic of said application;
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- receiving a first input at the GUI, the first input corresponding to an instruction to alter the first appearance of said application to a second appearance of said application by sliding a zone partition either left, right, up, or down at the GUI input by at least one of touch or gesture input, thereby maximizing display of the first appearance and minimizing display of the second appearance.
A device for configuring a heads-up display (“HUD”) of a vehicle dash to display one or more vehicle applications, comprising:
- a Graphical User Interface (“GUI”) including a first display area;
- an input gesture area of the first display area;
- a HUD unit;
- a vehicle signal input/output port, wherein the vehicle signal input/output port is configured to receive and send signals to and from a plurality of vehicle devices;
- a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, perform the method comprising:
- displaying, at a first time, vehicle dash information in at least a first layout and second layout on at least one of the GUI and the HUD unit to project the vehicle dash information above a vehicle dash, wherein the vehicle dash information comprises the same application corresponding to similar vehicle readouts in the at least first and second layouts;
- receiving a first input at the GUI, wherein the first input corresponds to an instruction to alter the first layout of the vehicle dash information to a second layout of the vehicle dash information, and wherein the second layout of the vehicle dash information is different from the first layout of the vehicle dash information;
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- wherein the altering is by sliding a zone partition either left, right, up, or down at the GUI input by at least one of touch or gesture input, thereby maximizing display of the first layout and minimizing display of the second layout.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.