Vehicle Display Integration With Mobile Apps and Cloud Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle systems lack the ability to seamlessly integrate and customize user interfaces with mobile devices 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, allowing users to select and arrange applications, learn user patterns, and adjust settings based on usage, while ensuring safe driving by restricting distracting features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle system integrates multiple mobile device applications and cloud services, then the adaptability and versatility of the user interface is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based service intermediary that manages application integration and user interface configuration. The cloud service acts as a mediator between mobile devices, vehicle systems, and users, handling the complexity of integrating multiple applications and services while presenting a simplified interface to users. This resolves the contradiction by externalizing system complexity to a cloud intermediary while maintaining high adaptability through service composition.
2Ease of operation
If the system provides extensive customization options for user interface and application arrangement, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring application arrangements and interface layouts through cloud-based templates and user profiles. When a user accesses the system, their preferred configuration is automatically applied, eliminating the need for complex real-time customization. This resolves the contradiction by moving the customization complexity to a preliminary setup phase handled by the cloud service, while the actual operation remains simple for the user.
3Speed
If the vehicle computer processes and manages multiple applications locally, then the speed of operation is improved, but the use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the application processing functionality between the vehicle computer and cloud services. The vehicle computer handles only critical local functions (such as safety-critical operations and immediate user interactions), while non-critical application management, rendering, and data processing are offloaded to cloud servers. This segmentation reduces the energy burden on the vehicle computer while maintaining acceptable operational speed through selective local processing.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the system integrates more mobile device features and third-party applications, then the adaptability is improved, but the reliability decreases due to potential distractions
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the availability and functionality of integrated applications based on vehicle operating conditions. When the vehicle is in motion, the system automatically restricts or disables applications that could cause driver distraction, while allowing essential functions. When parked or in low-risk conditions, more applications become available. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making application accessibility conditional on safety requirements rather than fixed.
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.