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.
Claims21
A display method, said 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.
11-20. (canceled)
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.