Flexible Modular Screen for Vehicle Profile Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern vehicles require users to divert their attention from the road to access and control infotainment functions, and there is no seamless way to transfer personal preferences between vehicles, leading to an inconvenient user experience.
Innovation Solution
A modular flexible-screen apparatus that mounts inconspicuously to a vehicle's steering wheel, featuring a flexible display, hardware-based processing unit, and non-transitory storage, allowing users to transport and apply personal profiles across multiple vehicles by conforming to different driver-area components and establishing communication channels for vehicle control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users access infotainment functions through center console screens, then vehicle control functions can be accessed, but users must divert their eyes far from the road and reach to the center dashboard
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the infotainment control interface from the traditional center console location and relocates it to the steering wheel area. The flexible display can be mounted on the steering wheel or dashboard, bringing controls within easy reach of the driver without requiring movement to the center console, thus maintaining ease of operation while reducing attention diversion.
Solution Approach 2:
A flexible display interface acts as an intermediary between the driver and vehicle control functions. This intermediary can be positioned optimally near the driver and connected to the vehicle's infotainment system through wireless or wired communication, allowing control of vehicle functions without direct interaction with the center console screen.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users change vehicles, then they gain access to different vehicle functions, but they lose access to their previously set preferences and settings
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible display system serves as a universal interface that can connect to multiple different vehicles through wireless communication protocols. User profiles and preferences are stored in the portable display device itself, allowing the same interface and stored preferences to work across different vehicle platforms, thus maintaining both adaptability to different vehicles and retention of user information.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible display device autonomously stores and manages user preference data locally within its own memory systems. When connected to different vehicles, the device automatically retrieves and applies the stored preferences without requiring users to manually reconfigure settings, thereby preventing loss of information while maintaining versatility across vehicles.
3Reliability
If a fixed rigid display is used in the vehicle, then it provides stable control interface, but it cannot be easily removed or transported between vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The display uses a flexible form factor that can be mounted on various surfaces including the steering wheel or dashboard. This flexible design maintains a stable control interface when mounted in a vehicle while allowing easy removal and transport to other vehicles, combining reliability during use with adaptability for portability.
Data Source
AI summary
A modular flexible-screen apparatus allowing a user to transport personal preferences or settings between participating vehicles of transportation. The user can carry the preference-holding screen apparatus to and from the same vehicle, and between other vehicles the user owns, and/or to shared, taxi, or rental vehicles.