Agricultural Display Movable Visualization Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display systems for agricultural machines overwhelm operators with excessive information, leading to sensory overload and difficulty in distinguishing important from less important data, due to the visualization of non-essential parameters and changing screen structures.
Innovation Solution
An electronic operating and display unit with a touchscreen interface, featuring movable visualization areas and icons representing machine parameters, allowing for context-relevant information visualization and easy parameter changes through virtual rotary and slide switches, pop-up windows, and editing buttons, enabling flexible and efficient operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a large amount of information is visualized directly on the screen, then comprehensive information availability is improved, but sensory overload and difficulty in distinguishing important information occur
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into multiple visualization areas (first visualization area for work phase icons, second visualization area for tool icons, third visualization area for parameter icons). This segmentation allows information to be organized into distinct categories, reducing cognitive overload while maintaining comprehensive information availability. Each area can be independently scrolled and managed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces navigation levels as an additional dimension for organizing information. Instead of displaying all information on a single flat screen, the system uses multiple navigation levels that can be activated sequentially. This dimensional approach allows comprehensive information to be available without overwhelming the operator at any single moment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the screen structure is constantly changing to accommodate different information, then information adaptability is improved, but orientation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The visualization areas are designed to be movable relative to one another, with horizontal and vertical scrolling capabilities. This dynamic arrangement allows the display structure to adapt to different information needs while maintaining a consistent overall framework. The scrollable nature provides adaptability without complete structural reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares multiple navigation levels and visualization areas in advance, organized by category (work phases, tools, parameters). When the operator needs specific information, they can navigate to the pre-organized section rather than searching through a constantly changing structure. This preliminary organization maintains orientation while providing adaptability.
3Loss of information
If multiple parameters are visualized simultaneously, then comprehensive monitoring is improved, but parameter identification and editing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Parameters are segmented into different visualization areas based on their category (work phase parameters, tool parameters, etc.). Each visualization area displays a specific subset of parameters, making them easier to identify and edit. The segmented approach maintains comprehensive parameter visibility while reducing the complexity of any single parameter editing task.
Solution Approach 2:
When a parameter icon is activated, a pop-up window is moved horizontally into the display, extracting the detailed parameter editing interface from the main display. This extraction allows comprehensive parameter information to remain visible in the background while the detailed editing interface is separated into a dedicated pop-up window, reducing overall interface complexity.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an electronic operating and display unit (8) with a display (18) and at least one operating unit (22, 23), wherein the display (18) comprises a plurality of visualization areas (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) and icons (57) representing the setting of parameters (64) are assigned to one or more of the visualization areas (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47), wherein the display (18) can be operated in navigation levels (19, 20) and the display (18) is subdivided into visualization areas (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) within a navigation level (19, 20) and at least some of the visualization areas (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) are movable relative to each other and the movableness of the visualization areas (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) relative to each other a horizontal and/or vertical scrolling (34, 35) of the respective visualization area (32, 33, 37, 38, 46,47) comprises and the respective icon (57) represents a parameter (64) of a working machine (1) and by activating the icon (57) at least one virtual setting element (65) is displayed on the display (18) in such a way that at least one pop-up window (53) is moved horizontally (52) into the display (18), which comprises the at least one virtual setting element (65) and the virtual setting element (65) is editable for changing the parameter (64) of the working machine (1).