Adaptive Dashboard Display Layout for Automotive Glare Compensation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies lack effective solutions for mitigating glare on car dashboards and windshields, especially during long-distance driving in the same direction, where options for reducing glare are limited.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a system that includes cameras or glare sensors to detect glare and automatically adjust the display settings, such as moving virtual gauges and dials to non-glare areas or adjusting the contrast and brightness of the display regions affected by glare.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If the display screen is tilted or moved to mitigate glare, then the glare impact is reduced, but the ease of operation decreases due to limited adjustment options in automotive applications

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveglare impactVSAvoiddisplay adjustment flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display system dynamically adjusts its characteristics (brightness, contrast, position) in real-time based on detected glare conditions, transforming a static display into an adaptive system that automatically responds to environmental changes without requiring manual user intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses sensors to detect glare conditions and feeds this information back to the display control system, which then automatically adjusts display parameters to mitigate glare, creating a closed-loop control system that continuously optimizes visibility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Illumination intensity

If the display brightness is increased to improve visibility, then the visibility improves, but the glare impact worsens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay brightnessVSAvoidglare intensity

Core Design Contradiction:

Illumination intensityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different brightness levels to different regions of the display, with brighter areas positioned away from glare sources and dimmer or obscured areas positioned in glare-prone regions, creating a spatially varying brightness distribution that maintains visibility while reducing glare impact

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes multiple display parameters including brightness, contrast, and position based on detected glare conditions, transforming the display output to optimize visibility while minimizing glare through coordinated adjustment of multiple parameters

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Object-affected harmful factors

If virtual gauges and dials are repositioned to non-glare areas, then the glare impact on critical instruments is reduced, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveglare impact on instrumentsVSAvoiddisplay system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display system integrates multiple functions including glare detection, automatic repositioning of virtual instruments, and dynamic brightness adjustment within a single integrated system, allowing one system to perform multiple tasks that would otherwise require separate devices

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250182709A1Glare and occluded view compensation for automotive and other applications

Publication Date: 2025.06.05 INTEL CORP

AI summary

Often when there is a glare on a display screen the user may be able to mitigate the glare by tilting or otherwise moving the screen or changing their viewing position. However, when driving a car there are limited options for overcoming glares on the dashboard, especially when you are driving for a long distance in the same direction. Embodiments are directed to eliminating such glare. Other embodiments are related to mixed reality (MR) and filling in occluded areas.