Vehicle Display Articulation for Context-Aware Content Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
As vehicles become increasingly connected, users face cognitive overload from interacting with multiple devices and display screens, necessitating a system that efficiently manages content distribution without overwhelming the user.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to select or have content moved between displays using user-interactive inputs, such as voice, gestures, or touch commands, with a motor mechanism adjusting display positions and settings based on user profiles and analysis of user reactions, to optimize content presentation and reduce cognitive overload.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple display screens and devices are provided to keep users connected, then connectivity and information availability are improved, but cognitive overload and interaction complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages content distribution across multiple displays without requiring user intervention. The processor monitors user attention, device states, and content types to autonomously determine optimal display assignments, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring complex user management of multiple screens
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes display parameters including content assignment, display positioning, and articulation states based on real-time conditions. By continuously adjusting these parameters according to user profiles, attention detection, and contextual information, the system optimizes information delivery while maintaining simple interactions
2Ease of operation
If manual interaction with multiple displays is required to manage content, then user control is improved, but cognitive load and safety risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback loops where the processor continuously monitors user reactions through cameras and sensors, analyzes attention levels, and adjusts display configurations accordingly. This closed-loop feedback enables the system to adapt to user needs automatically, maintaining ease of operation while eliminating cognitive overload from manual management
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical interaction with automated electronic control. Instead of requiring users to physically navigate and manage content across displays, the system uses processors, cameras, and algorithms to automatically detect user state and control display assignments, substituting mechanical user actions with electronic automation
3Device complexity
If display positions are fixed, then device simplicity is improved, but adaptability to user needs and contexts deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic display positioning where articulation mechanisms allow displays to move between concealed and revealed positions based on real-time user needs and contextual factors. The processor continuously adjusts display positions, orientations, and content assignments, transforming a static system into an adaptive dynamic system that responds to user profiles, attention detection, and environmental conditions
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively manages content across multiple displays, reducing cognitive overload by dynamically adjusting display settings and positions, ensuring that content is presented in a manner that meets the user's preferences and needs, enhancing user safety and convenience.
Implementation Method 1
The input command may cause a motor mechanism to adjust a position or display settings for the second display device
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AI summary
A system for directing content among a plurality of displays. The content may be selected by a user or may be determined by an event, such as a user-interactive input or an input initiated by an event associated with a vehicle system. The input command causes selected content to be moved from a first display to a second display. The input command causes articulation of the second display in order to display the selected content The input command may come from a portable device, or a user interactive command such as a voice command, a visual command such as a gesture, or a touch command. The input command may also come from a vehicle system, such as a navigation system, an infotainment system, a climate control system to name a few.