Transparent Vehicle Screen Luminescent Graphics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for presenting vehicle status and personal communications to operators before entering a vehicle are inefficient, as they require accessing the dashboard or separate devices, and external notes or stickers can be damaged or unseen due to weather conditions.
Innovation Solution
An Enhanced Vision System (EVS) that projects graphical images onto a substantially transparent vehicle screen using light emitting particles or microstructures, allowing for luminescent display while maintaining transparency, enabling communication of vehicle status and personal messages to pedestrians outside the vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional notes or stickers are used for external communication, then personal messages can be displayed, but they can be damaged or ruined due to adverse weather conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical mechanical media (notes, stickers, flags) with an optical display system that projects images onto the vehicle's transparent screen. This substitution eliminates the durability issues of physical media while maintaining the ability to convey external communications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes a transparent screen with light-emitting particles or microstructures embedded within it. This composite structure allows the screen to simultaneously provide transparency for viewing and luminescent display capabilities for showing external communications, combining multiple functions in a single durable component.
2Ease of operation
If a transparent screen with light emitting particles is used for display, then luminescent display is achieved while maintaining transparency, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transparent screen serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as the vehicle's window for transparency, provides structural protection, and functions as a display medium for external communications. By integrating these functions into a single component with light-emitting particles, the system reduces the need for separate display devices while maintaining operational convenience.
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
Enables convenient and weather-resistant communication of vehicle status and personal messages to operators and pedestrians, replacing traditional methods with a clear and durable visual display that can be seen through the vehicle's windows.
Implementation Method 1
displaying the graphic upon a substantially transparent screen comprises one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the screen permitting luminescent display while permitting transmission therethrough
Data Source
AI summary
A method to display a graphic describing a desired communication upon a substantially transparent screen of a vehicle includes monitoring the desired communication, monitoring an external presentation mode to present the desired communication, determining the graphic describing the desired communication, registering a location of the graphic upon the substantially transparent screen to be communicated outside of the vehicle, and displaying the graphic upon a substantially transparent screen comprises one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the screen permitting luminescent display while permitting transmission therethrough.