Vehicle Interior Display Margins With Hidden Decorative Controls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional display devices for vehicle interiors often clash with the interior design and distract drivers due to harsh contrasts and excessive input elements, which can interfere with the driver's focus.
Innovation Solution
A display device with an active front screen surface featuring a main area and a marginal area, where the marginal area is covered by a decorative layer that is transparent to emitted light, allowing for a smooth transition with the vehicle's design and reducing visible display elements to minimize distraction, using materials like leather, textiles, or metals, and incorporating touch-sensitive and pressure-sensitive switching elements within the decorative layer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the screen is made fully visible and accessible, then information display capability is improved, but driver distraction and harsh contrast with vehicle interior design worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the input elements from the main visible display area and places them in the marginal area covered by the decorative layer. This allows the main screen to be fully visible for information display while the input elements remain hidden unless activated, thereby preventing driver distraction while maintaining information display capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic visibility control where the marginal area with input elements can be selectively activated. When activated, the decorative layer becomes transparent in those regions to reveal the input elements. This dynamic switching allows the system to adapt between full visibility for information display and selective visibility to minimize distraction.
2Shape
If the decorative layer is made opaque to blend with vehicle interior, then aesthetic integration is improved, but visibility of marginal area content worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The decorative layer incorporates dynamic transparency control through transparent regions that can be selectively activated. When the marginal area is activated for input, the corresponding regions of the decorative layer become transparent, allowing visibility of the input elements while maintaining aesthetic integration when inactive.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes optical property changes in the decorative layer, specifically controlling its transparency/opacity characteristics. The decorative layer can transition between opaque states (for aesthetic integration) and transparent states (for visibility of marginal area content) based on activation status.
3Adaptability or versatility
If more input elements are provided on screen, then user interaction capability is improved, but driver distraction and focus interference worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts input elements from the main visible display area and relocates them to the marginal area. This spatial separation allows multiple input elements to be provided without increasing visual clutter in the main display area, thereby maintaining user interaction capability while reducing driver distraction.
Solution Approach 2:
The input elements in the marginal area are dynamically controllable - they can be activated on demand and deactivated when not needed. This dynamic control allows the system to provide comprehensive input options when required while maintaining a clean, non-distracting interface during normal operation.
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 solution ensures a harmonious integration of the display device into the vehicle's interior, maintaining high image quality and reducing driver distraction by selectively displaying information, while providing unobtrusive input options and enhancing the visibility of critical image content.
Implementation Method 1
in the switched-on state of the marginal area, at least 30% of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the marginal area from the wavelength spectrum of visible light is transmitted through the decorative layer
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AI summary
A display device for vehicle interiors includes a screen having an active front screen surface comprising a main area and a marginal area, and a decorative layer covering the marginal area and not covering the main area. The decorative layer is configured such that in a non-switched-on state of the screen in the marginal area, the marginal area is not visible through the decorative layer In a switched-on state of the marginal area, light emitted from the marginal area is visible through the decorative layer. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing such a display device is provided.