In-Vehicle Display Layout Personalization Across Different Vehicle Types
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face the inconvenience of having to re-customize in-vehicle display settings every time they board a different vehicle, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Innovation Solution
An in-vehicle terminal device that communicates with a server to acquire and apply user-specific display element arrangement information based on vehicle type, allowing for automatic adjustment of display settings upon user identification, including decisions on display element position, size, and priority.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If meter display customization is implemented according to user preference, then display personalization is improved, but user labor for setting display elements increases when boarding different vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing each user's preferred meter display arrangement information in advance on a server. When a user boards a vehicle, the system automatically retrieves and applies the pre-stored arrangement information, eliminating the need for the user to re-customize settings each time. This preliminary storage and automatic retrieval resolves the contradiction by maintaining display personalization while eliminating repeated user labor.
2Adaptability or versatility
If meter display customization is allowed per user, then display adaptability is improved, but system complexity increases due to multiple user settings management
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces a server as an intermediary between users and the meter display system. The server centrally stores and manages multiple user-specific arrangement information, while the in-vehicle terminal device simply retrieves and applies the appropriate settings. This intermediary approach resolves the contradiction by maintaining high display adaptability while reducing local system complexity, as the complex management functions are offloaded to the centralized server.
Data Source
AI summary
In an in-vehicle terminal device that is able to perform communication with a server device, an identification information acquisition unit acquires identification information of a user who boards a vehicle. A communication unit transmits the identification information of the user to the server device and receives arrangement information of a plurality of display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user transmitted from the server device. A setting unit decides an arrangement of the display elements of the in-vehicle display according to an arrangement criterion based on vehicle type information of the vehicle using the arrangement information of the display elements corresponding to the identification information of the user.