Vehicle Display Integration for Custom Mobile App Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle systems lack the ability to seamlessly integrate and customize user interfaces with mobile device applications and cloud services, limiting the flexibility and personalization of in-vehicle experiences.
Innovation Solution
The system enables vehicles to detect mobile devices, generate custom user interfaces, and communicate with cloud services to integrate native and mobile applications, allowing users to select and arrange applications on the vehicle display using voice, touch, or button inputs, with learning capabilities to adjust settings based on user behavior and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle system integrates multiple native and mobile applications with cloud services, then the adaptability and versatility of the user interface is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary processing system that mediates between mobile devices, cloud services, and the vehicle's native systems. This intermediary layer manages the integration of multiple applications and data sources, allowing the vehicle display to present unified, customized interfaces without requiring direct complex connections between all system components. The intermediary handles application identification, data integration, and interface generation, thereby resolving the technical contradiction by enabling high adaptability while managing system complexity through centralized coordination.
2Ease of operation
If the system provides extensive customization options for user interface arrangement and application selection, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service capabilities that automatically detect mobile devices, identify available applications, and generate customized user interfaces based on user preferences and usage patterns. The system autonomously manages application configuration, data integration, and interface arrangement without requiring manual setup of each parameter. This self-service approach enables extensive customization options while reducing the operational burden on users, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and device complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle computer detects and processes multiple mobile device applications simultaneously, then the adaptability is improved, but the measurement precision and reliability of system responses may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the processing of multiple mobile device applications by creating distinct processing channels or contexts for different application types. The system divides the complex task of handling multiple applications into manageable segments, processing each application's data and control signals through dedicated pathways. This segmentation allows the vehicle computer to maintain high adaptability for supporting multiple applications while preserving measurement precision and response reliability by preventing signal interference and processing overload.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are provided. One example method includes providing a connection to the Internet for a vehicle via wireless connection circuitry associated with an on-board computer of the vehicle. The connection is used to communicate with a service, and a user account is assigned to a user and the user account is associated with settings of the user. The method includes providing communication, by the on-board computer, with a mobile device. The communication provides for pairing the mobile device with the on-board computer using credentials associated with the user account of the user. The method includes accessing, using the on-board computer, data from a mobile device application of the mobile device for rendering content to a display screen of the vehicle. At least some data accessed from the mobile device application is used to render said content to the display screen of the vehicle. The content of the mobile device application rendered on the display screen of the vehicle is in addition to content rendered on the display screen of the vehicle for a native application of the vehicle.