In-vehicle configurable soft switches
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorJoey Ray Grover
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method may include receiving input to a vehicle-associated computing system (VACS) touch-sensitive display, requesting adjustment to a powered state of an accessory device connected to a switch module; providing, responsive to the input, a command from a vehicle computing system to the switch module, running on the VACS, to adjust a controlled output of the switch module; and updating the user interface to reflect a result of the command.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- prompting, in a touch display of a vehicle, for label text to identify an accessory device detected due to a change in electrical properties of a controlled output of a switch module;
- providing, responsive to touch input to the label text of the display requesting adjustment to a powered state of the accessory device, a command adjusting the controlled output;
- and
- updating the display to reflect a result of the command.
A system comprising:
- a switch module configured to:
- utilize an active low design to provide switched ground wire connections to a plurality of accessory devices;
- receive a command from a vehicle-associated computing system requesting adjustment to a powered state of one of the plurality of accessory devices connected to the switch module;
- and
- adjust the powered state of the one of the plurality of accessory devices responsive to the command.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions configured to cause at least one controller to:
- receive, from a switch module, an indication of detection by the switch module of a change in electrical properties of a controlled output of the switch module, the change indicative of an accessory device being connected to the controlled output;
- provide a message in a user interface of a vehicle-associated computing system (VACS) touch-sensitive display requesting text to use as a label in the display for the accessory device;
- receive input to the label in the display, requesting adjustment to a powered state of the accessory device;
- provide, responsive to the input, a command from a vehicle computing system to the switch module, running on the VACS, to adjust a controlled output of the switch module;
- and
- update the display to reflect a result of the command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.