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US 11,386,871 B2Granted
Instrumentation perspective and light emulator
AssigneeContinental Automotive Systems, Inc.
InventorsIrving Morales Rodriguez, Hermes Ivan Rodriguez-Apodaca, Alvaro Ivan Ontiveros, Kevin Arrunategui Mojica, Tobias Regner
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Abstract
A vehicle instrument panel assembly includes a display that generates an image indicative of a vehicle operating parameter, a first sensor disposed proximate the display that senses a position of an operator relative to the display and a controller that modifies the image responsive to the sensed position of the operator.
Claims8
A vehicle instrument panel assembly comprising:
- a display that generates an image indicative of a vehicle operating parameter, wherein the image comprises a first gauge including a first housing and a first gauge face, a second gauge including a second housing and a second gauge face and an object disposed between the first gauge and the second gauge, wherein the object includes at least one of a symbol, graph, chart and/or a text box indicative of a current status of a vehicle system;
- a first sensor disposed proximate the display that senses a position of an operator relative to the display;
- a controller that modifies the image responsive to the sensed position of the operator;
- a second sensor disposed proximate the display that sense a position of an operator's eyes relative to the display;
- wherein the controller modifies a perspective of the image based on the sensed position of the operator's eyes relative to the display;
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- wherein the modified image comprises a perspective view emulating moving between 1° and 45° in any direction relative to the display of at least one representation of a gauge with a pointer that indicates a value of a current operating parameter, wherein the gauge comprises an outer housing and a gauge face on which the pointer indicates and the perspective view emulates a view of the gauge as would be viewed if present in the instrument panel assembly in-place of the display.
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A method of communicating information to an operator of a motor vehicle comprising:
- generating an image representing a gauge on a display screen disposed within a vehicle instrument panel assembly;
- sensing a position of an operator relative to the image generated on the display with a first sensor disposed proximate the vehicle instrument panel assembly;
- modifying the image automatically with a controller to be a perspective view of the gauge as would be viewed by the operator based on the sensed position of the operator eyes relative to the image generated on the display, wherein the modified image comprises a perspective view emulating moving between 1° and 45° in all directions relative to the display;
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- generating a graphical representation of an object on the display wherein the perspective view emulates a view of the object as would be viewed if present in the instrument panel assembly in-place of the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.