Vehicle Display Notification Priority Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display processing apparatuses do not effectively manage notification information across multiple display screens in vehicles, lacking a systematic approach to prioritize and update information based on user operations.

Innovation Solution

A display processing apparatus with an acquisition unit, setting unit, and change unit that acquires and prioritizes notification information for multiple display screens, allowing for dynamic changes based on user operations to ensure high-priority information is displayed across various screens, such as a center display, head-up display, and meter display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If notification information is displayed on multiple display screens without priority-based management, then the quantity of notification information displayed is increased, but the visibility and usability of high-priority information deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantity of notification information displayedVSAvoidvisibility of high-priority information
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments notification information by priority levels and assigns different display strategies to different priority categories. High-priority notifications are displayed prominently on all screens, while lower-priority notifications are displayed selectively based on screen availability, thus maintaining both quantity and visibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different display qualities and positions to notification information based on its priority level. High-priority information receives optimal display positions and prominent presentation on each screen, while lower-priority information is displayed in less prominent positions or on secondary screens

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If notification information is updated across all display screens in response to user operations, then the usability and responsiveness of the system is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponsiveness to user operationsVSAvoidcomplexity of display management system
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the display management logic across multiple screens by implementing a centralized priority-based control system. When a user interacts with notification information on one screen, the system automatically coordinates updates across other screens based on priority levels, reducing the complexity of managing each screen independently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Measurement precision

If high-priority notification information is prominently displayed on all screens, then the visibility of critical information is improved, but the area occupied by notification information increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility of high-priority informationVSAvoidarea occupied by notification information
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes the spatial dimension across multiple display screens to distribute high-priority notification information. Instead of competing for space on a single screen, critical notifications are displayed simultaneously on multiple screens, ensuring visibility without excessive area occupation on any single display

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS10720054B2Display processing apparatus and display processing method
Publication Date: 2020.07.21 DENSO TEN LTD
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AI summary

A display processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a change unit. The acquisition unit acquires notification information. The setting unit sets, for each of a plurality of display screens, notification information to be displayed on a corresponding display screen based on a priority of the notification information. The change unit changes, when changing notification information of one of the plurality of display screens based on a user's operation on a display screen set by the setting unit, notification information to be displayed on another of the plurality of display screens based on a change in the notification information on the one display screen.