Pivotable Vehicle Display Fields for Multi-Angle Visibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices for vehicle interiors, such as dual-view displays, typically operate at half the resolution due to their design, limiting the flexibility and effectiveness of displaying content to multiple viewers from different angles.

Innovation Solution

A display device comprising multiple pivotable display fields connected along a common axis, with each field having a dedicated bending plane, allowing for adjustable emission angles to optimize content visibility from various perspectives, enabling flexible orientation and improved resolution by allowing each field to emit content at specific angles relative to its surface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If dual-view displays are used to display different images from two different directions, then visibility from multiple angles is improved, but resolution is reduced to half of the entire display

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility from multiple anglesVSAvoidresolution
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display device is divided into multiple independent display fields (first, second, third, fourth display fields), each capable of being independently controlled and positioned. This segmentation allows each field to maintain full resolution while the system as a whole provides multi-angle visibility through strategic positioning and content distribution across the segmented fields.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple display fields are connected along a common axis to enable relative pivoting, then flexibility in content presentation is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflexibility in content presentationVSAvoidstructure with multiple pivotable fields
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple display fields are merged along a common axis, sharing a rotational pivot point that enables coordinated movement. This merging approach allows the system to achieve flexible content presentation through relative pivoting of fields while reducing overall complexity compared to completely independent mounting mechanisms for each field.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If display content is emitted at different angles from different display fields, then visibility from various perspectives is improved, but control complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility from various perspectivesVSAvoidcontrol of emission angles
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Each display field is configured with its own local emission angle and orientation, optimized for its specific viewing direction. This local quality approach allows different parts of the display system to have different angular characteristics, improving overall multi-perspective visibility while managing control complexity through decentralized, field-specific optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3585637B1Display device
Publication Date: 2022.07.20 AUDI AG
  • EP3585637B1 patent drawingFigure 1a~1b
  • EP3585637B1 patent drawingFigure 2a~2b

AI summary

The invention relates to a display device (2) which can be arranged on an inner wall in an interior of a vehicle and is subdivided into a plurality of display fields (4, 6), wherein two directly adjacent display fields (4, 6) are connected to each other along a common axis, wherein said two directly adjacent display fields (4, 6) can be pivoted relative to each other about the common axis, wherein the display device (2) has at least one bending plane (8), wherein at least one display field (4, 6) can also be pivoted relative to the at least one bending plane (8), wherein for this at least one display field (4, 6) that can be pivoted relative to the at least one bending plane (8) an angle α can be set, at which this at least one display field (4, 6) that can be pivoted relative to the at least one bending plane (8) beams a display content (12, 14) into the interior relative to the at least one bending plane (8) if, in a first operating position, a surface of this at least one display field (4, 6) that can be pivoted relative to the at least one bending plane (8) is oriented perpendicular to the at least one bending plane (8), wherein in a second operating position, this at least one display field (4, 6) that can be pivoted relative to the at least one bending plane (8) is pivoted at an angle 90°-α relative to the at least one bending plane (8), wherein in the second operating position, this at least one display field (4, 6) that can be pivoted relative to the bending plane (8) beams the display content (12, 14) into the interior parallel to the at least one bending plane (8).