Extended Display Surface Layout for Immersive Low-Cost Vehicle Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image display systems in vehicles, particularly those using TFT-LCD screens, are expensive and do not provide satisfactory visual quality for displaying audiovisual content and information, especially due to limitations in display resolution.
Innovation Solution
An image display system with a main display surface and peripheral display surfaces, controlled by a programmable electronic device, which synchronizes the display of main and peripheral surfaces using backlighting units to create an extended and immersive display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a TFT-LCD display screen is used to achieve good display quality, then the resolution and visual quality are improved, but the cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into a main display surface with TFT-LCD screen for high-resolution content and peripheral display surfaces with simpler display elements for auxiliary information, allowing selective application of expensive high-resolution technology only where necessary
Solution Approach 2:
Different display qualities are applied to different regions: the central display area uses high-resolution TFT-LCD for audiovisual content while peripheral areas use lower-resolution elements sufficient for informational displays, optimizing cost-performance ratio
2Measurement precision
If the display resolution is increased to provide useful information display, then the visual quality is improved, but the manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies high resolution partially - only to the extent needed for the main display area showing audiovisual content and critical information, while accepting lower resolution in peripheral areas where detailed visual quality is less critical
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a main high-resolution display as the primary source and creates simplified representations for peripheral displays, copying only essential information to lower-resolution peripheral elements
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display surfaces are integrated to create an extended display, then the immersive experience is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple display surfaces (main display screen and peripheral display elements) are merged into a unified extended display system with synchronized content presentation, creating an immersive experience while managing complexity through integrated control architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The display system is designed to serve multiple functions: the main display shows audiovisual content while peripheral displays provide supplemental information, notifications, and controls, allowing a single integrated system to handle diverse display needs
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 provides an immersive and visually satisfying display at reduced costs by optimizing the resolution and backlighting effects across multiple display surfaces, ensuring continuity and synchronized image presentation.
Implementation Method 1
one or more backlighting units configured to illuminate the main display surface and/or said at least one peripheral display surface
Data Source
AI summary
A system having an extended display surface that includes a main display surface, associated with at least one screen, and at least one peripheral display surface, associated with a peripheral display element, extending around at least part of the main display surface, and one or more backlighting units configured to illuminate these display surfaces. After receiving a plurality of digital images each represented by an image data array, the system performs an extraction from the image data array, of a main image data array of dimensions equal to the dimensions of the screen, and an extraction or generation of at least one complementary image data subarray, and a control of displaying the main image data array on the screen and controlling the backlighting units to perform a display of each complementary image data subarray on the corresponding peripheral display element.