Programmable Vehicle Paint Surfaces With Direct Color Cell Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for customizing the exterior color of vehicles are labor-intensive, require specialty training, and limit user interaction and customization options, often necessitating reference to a programming station for changes.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing depth-sensing devices to detect user interactions directly on the vehicle's exterior surface, allowing users to select and change the color of electronically programmable cells without needing a programming station, enabling direct interaction and immediate visual feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a user uses an interface inside the vehicle or a separate mobile device to select and change colors, then color customization is enabled, but the user cannot see changes immediately on the actual vehicle surface and must refer back to the programming station
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces immediate visual feedback by displaying the selected color directly on the target color cells of the vehicle surface. When a user selects a color through depth-sensing interaction, the corresponding color cells update their display in real-time, allowing the user to see the changes immediately on the actual vehicle surface rather than referring back to a programming station or mobile device interface.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional painting or wrapping methods are used to personalize vehicles, then customization is achieved, but the process requires specialty training and is labor intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces traditional mechanical painting and wrapping processes with an electronic display system. Instead of requiring specialty training for painting or wrapping, users interact with the vehicle surface through depth-sensing technology that detects gestures or touches, automatically translating these inputs into color changes on the electronic color cells without any physical application process.
3Adaptability or versatility
If existing programming interfaces are used, then color selection is possible, but users are limited by predetermined patterns and lack granularity for selecting specific sections
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle surface is divided into multiple independently controllable color cells that can be individually selected and customized. Instead of limiting users to predetermined patterns, the system allows selection of specific sections through direct interaction with individual color cells or groups of cells, providing granular control over which areas are customized and with what colors.
4Ease of operation
If depth-sensing devices are activated to detect user actions, then direct interaction with the vehicle surface is enabled, but the system must determine vehicle state to permit color programming mode
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary checks of the vehicle state before activating color programming mode. It determines whether the vehicle is in an appropriate state (e.g., parked, engine off) before allowing depth-sensing interaction to begin, ensuring safety and proper operation conditions are met before enabling direct user interaction with the color cells.
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AI summary
System and methods are described for changing the exterior color of a vehicle with an exterior surface comprising a plurality of electronically programmable color cells. The systems and methods describe receiving a request to begin color programming mode on the vehicle and in response to determining that a state of the vehicle permits the color programming mode, activating a depth-sensing device configured to monitor for and detect a user action associated with the exterior surface. The systems and methods further describe receiving, at a user device communicatively coupled to the vehicle and to the depth-sensing device, a color selection; identifying, by the depth-sensing device, the location of an interaction point between the user action and the exterior surface determining, based on data captured by the depth-sensing device, an electronically programmable color cell that is located at the identified interaction point; and transmitting to the vehicle an instruction to change the color of the determined electronically programmable color cell to the selected color.