Vehicle Display Control Apparatus for Related Image Grouping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display technologies in vehicles face challenges in effectively displaying related information across multiple display areas, leading to difficulty in user understanding of the relationships between these displays, especially when multiple display images have interdependencies.
Innovation Solution
A display control apparatus and method that performs a comparison operation to assign display images to areas based on area and image relationship information, using ruling-set numbers to group related images and areas, ensuring that images with relationships are displayed in a manner that facilitates user understanding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If display images are assigned to areas by comparing priorities of areas, then the determination of display areas is automated and adapted for in-vehicle environment, but related display images may be displayed in distant areas making it difficult for users to grasp relationships between them
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display system into two distinct assignment processes: first assigning display images based on area priorities, then separately handling related display images by grouping them and assigning them to adjacent or nearby areas. This segmentation allows the system to maintain automated assignment while preserving spatial relationships between related images.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism that identifies relationships between display images and uses this information to mediate the assignment process. When related images are detected, the system acts as an intermediary to ensure they are placed in spatially proximate areas, thus maintaining their relationship information visible to users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display images are displayed across multiple display apparatuses, then various information can be provided simultaneously, but it becomes practically difficult to preliminarily determine all patterns of display image combinations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic display assignment system that does not rely on predetermined patterns for all possible combinations. Instead, it uses real-time priority comparison and relationship-based grouping to dynamically determine optimal display assignments, allowing the system to adapt to any combination of display images without requiring pre-programming of all patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of display assignment from static predetermined patterns to dynamic priority-based allocation. By using priority values and relationship information as changeable parameters, the system can flexibly adapt to different display scenarios without increasing device complexity.
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AI summary
A display control apparatus assigning display images to multiple areas of a vehicle-mounted display is disclosed. The display control apparatus stores area relationship information for each of the areas and image relationship information for each of the display images. Of two display images related to each other, the display control apparatus determines that one display image belongs to a first image group and the other display image belongs to a second image group. The display control apparatus assigns the one display image to the areas by performing a predetermined comparison operation, and then assigns the other display image to the areas based on the area assigned the one display image and the area relationship information.