Vehicle Display Icon Validation for Dynamic Background Visibility
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle infotainment systems struggle to ensure that safety icons and graphics are accurately displayed and visible over rich graphical user interfaces, particularly when the background is opaque or dynamic, leading to potential obscurity and reduced observability.
Innovation Solution
An icon validation system that employs edge detection algorithms and matching techniques to verify the accuracy and visibility of icons on a vehicle display, using processors to compare detected icons with stored shapes and adjust color contrasts to enhance observability, ensuring compliance with manufacturer and vehicular standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If icons are overlaid on rich graphical user interface with opaque background, then the display can present complex information, but the icon observability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically adjusts icon colors based on the background color detected in the graphical user interface. When an opaque or dynamically changing background is detected, the system modifies the icon colors to ensure sufficient contrast and maintain observability, directly resolving the contradiction between complex display and icon visibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a new dimension of background analysis by detecting the graphical user interface background and using this information to adjust icon properties. This dimensional approach (adding background detection layer) enables the system to maintain icon observability across diverse display complexities without sacrificing either aspect
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional displays present warnings on opaque background, then the graphical interface can be rich, but the warning icon visibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system detects the background color of the graphical user interface and automatically adjusts warning icon colors to ensure they remain visible and distinguishable. This color adaptation mechanism prevents information loss by maintaining warning icon observability even when the graphical interface uses opaque or dynamically changing backgrounds
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback loop where the detected background characteristics inform the icon display adjustments. The background detection continuously monitors the graphical interface, and when changes are detected that could affect warning visibility, the system adjusts icon properties accordingly, ensuring warning information remains observable
Data Source
AI summary
An icon validation system for a vehicle display is disclosed herein. The icon validation system may validate correctness and observability of icons displayed over backgrounds on a vehicle infotainment system. The icon validation system may edge detection, matching, and statistical algorithms to check various criteria of the displayed icons to determine if the icons displayed meet specified standards. When faults are discovered between the displayed icons and the check criteria, corrective action may be taken to ensure that no incorrect information is displayed. This allows the infotainment system to display graphics in the background while display static or animated safety icons over the background while maintaining continuity in the vehicle safety icon display.