Marine Display Layout With Edge Touchscreen for Clutter-Free Controls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional marine displays face challenges in balancing ease of access to key features with compromises in screen real estate and dedicated physical buttons, necessitating an improved methodology for intuitive and uncluttered display systems.
Innovation Solution
A dynamic marine display system featuring a primary display with a secondary touch screen display along its edge, allowing user input and rendering views corresponding to operational modes, which supplements the primary display with additional functionality and reduces clutter.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single large display is used to provide all controls and information, then comprehensive functionality is achieved, but screen clutter increases and ease of access to key features deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into a primary display for main navigation and sonar information, and a secondary display specifically for controls and additional information. This segmentation allows users to access controls on the secondary display without cluttering the primary display, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive functionality and ease of access.
Solution Approach 2:
The secondary display is positioned adjacent to the primary display, creating a multi-dimensional display layout. This spatial arrangement allows controls and information to be accessed in a different dimension (side-by-side rather than overlaying), maintaining comprehensive functionality while improving ease of access to key features.
2Adaptability or versatility
If more controls and features are added to the display, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Controls and secondary information are extracted from the primary display and placed on a separate secondary display. This extraction reduces the complexity of the primary display interface while maintaining adaptability, as users can access additional features on the secondary display without the main display becoming cluttered or overly complex.
3Ease of operation
If a secondary display is added to provide additional functionality, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The secondary display serves multiple functions: it provides controls for the marine display system, displays additional information, and can show complementary data without interfering with the primary display. This multi-functionality improves ease of operation while justifying the added complexity through versatile utility.
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AI summary
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide dynamic display systems for mobile structures. A dynamic marine display system includes a user interface comprising a primary display and secondary display, where the secondary display is disposed along and physically separate from an edge of the primary display, and where the secondary display comprises a touch screen display configured to render pixelated display views and receive user input as one or more user touches and/or gestures applied to a display surface of the secondary display. A logic device is configured to receive user selection of an operational mode associated with the user interface and/or the mobile structure and render a primary display view via the primary display and/or a secondary display view via the secondary display corresponding to the received user selection and/or operational mode.