Rotating Vehicle Center Display With Stationary Touch Bar Safety Lockout
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle displays are unable to change orientation, limiting driver utility during driving and passenger entertainment experiences, as they are either stationary or inefficiently utilize screen space, especially when the vehicle is stopped or parked.
Innovation Solution
A rotatable console display system with a rotation mechanism, touch bar, and processor that allows the display to switch between portrait and landscape orientations based on user requests, optimizing information access during driving and entertainment modes, while disabling vehicle movement in landscape orientation for safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a stationary display device is used in vehicles, then the device structure is simple and stable, but the display cannot optimize orientation for different usage scenarios (driving vs. entertainment)
Solution Approach 1:
The display device transitions from a stationary state to a dynamically rotatable state, allowing it to switch between portrait orientation (optimized for driving information display) and landscape orientation (optimized for entertainment). The rotation mechanism enables the display to adapt its orientation based on vehicle operation mode, resolving the contradiction between structural simplicity and orientation adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The display system is designed to serve multiple functions: providing driving information in portrait mode and entertainment content in landscape mode. By integrating rotation capability, a single display device can fulfill both driving assistance and entertainment needs, eliminating the requirement for separate displays for different functions.
2Ease of operation
If the display rotates to landscape orientation for entertainment, then passenger entertainment experience is improved, but vehicle movement safety is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the display orientation is linked to vehicle operation state. When the vehicle is in motion, the system automatically returns the display to portrait orientation or prevents landscape mode activation, ensuring that entertainment functions do not compromise driving safety. This feedback loop maintains reliability while allowing ease of operation during safe conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system proactively prevents unsafe conditions by blocking landscape orientation activation when the vehicle is detected to be in motion. This preliminary anti-action ensures that the display cannot be rotated to an orientation that would compromise driving safety, addressing the safety concern before it can manifest.
3Productivity
If a vertical portrait display is used for driving information, then driver information access is optimized, but screen space utilization is inefficient for entertainment content
Solution Approach 1:
The display dynamically changes its effective display area orientation based on the operational mode. In driving mode, the portrait orientation maximizes vertical information density for efficient data presentation. In entertainment mode, the landscape orientation maximizes horizontal screen space utilization for media content, thereby optimizing screen space usage for different content types.
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AI summary
An apparatus and methods for rotating a console display device of a vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display device; a rotation mechanism connected to the display device and configured to rotate the display device between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation; a touch bar having at least one button; and a memory storing instructions. The instructions include receiving a request from a user via the touch bar to rotate the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation; sending a message to the user via the display device providing a time for the user to cancel the request; executing, via the rotation mechanism, a rotation of the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation after the provided time to cancel the request elapses; and sending a signal to disable vehicle movement.