Context-responsive in-vehicle display system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorAmnon Ribak
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Abstract
A context-responsive display system for use in a vehicle. The display system includes a dashboard display positioned in front of a driver of the vehicle and adapted to display graphic user interface elements in a predetermined graphic composition providing information to the driver regarding operation of devices in the vehicle. The display system also includes a processor coupled to receive signals from the devices in the vehicle and to drive the display responsive thereto, and to alter the graphic composition of the display responsive to a selected input to the processor.
Claims50
A display system for use in a vehicle, comprising:
- a dashboard display, positioned in front of a driver of the vehicle, and adapted to display graphic user interface elements, in a predetermined graphic composition, providing information to the driver regarding operation of devices in the vehicle;
- and
- a processor, coupled to receive signals from the devices in the vehicle and to drive the display responsive thereto, and to alter the graphic composition of the display responsive to a selected input to the processor,
- wherein at least one configuration of the graphic composition of the dashboard display is blocked while the vehicle is moving.
A display system for use in a vehicle, comprising:
- a dashboard display, positioned in front of a driver of the vehicle, and adapted to display graphic user interface elements, in a predetermined graphic composition, providing information to the driver regarding operation of devices in the vehicle;
- and
- a processor, coupled to receive signals from the devices in the vehicle and to drive the display responsive thereto, and to alter the graphic composition of the display responsive to a selected input to the processor,
- wherein said dashboard display is personally configured for an individual driver, and
- wherein said display is personally configured responsive to an input of driver preferences to the processor within the vehicle, and
- wherein said input of driver preferences comprises driver preferences learned by the processor while the vehicle is driving.
A method for displaying information regarding operation of in-vehicle devices, comprising:
- receiving signals from the devices;
- displaying graphic user interface elements in a predetermined graphic composition on a dashboard display positioned in front of a driver of the vehicle, so as to provide information to a driver of the vehicle regarding operation of devices;
- and
- modifying the graphic composition of the display responsive to a selected event associated with the vehicle,
- wherein modifying the graphic configuration comprises blocking some configurations of the graphic composition of the dashboard display while the vehicle is moving.
A method for displaying information regarding operation of in-vehicle devices, comprising:
- receiving signals from the devices;
- displaying graphic user interface elements in a predetermined graphic composition on a dashboard display positioned in front of a driver of the vehicle, so as to provide information to a driver of the vehicle regarding operation of devices;
- and
- modifying the graphic composition of the display responsive to a selected event associated with the vehicle,
- wherein displaying the graphic user interface elements comprises personally configuring the dashboard display for an individual driver, and
- wherein said input of driver preferences occurs within the vehicle, and
- wherein personally configuring comprises learning driver preferences while driving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.