Vehicle Integrated Garage Door Opener Programming via Touchscreen
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Solution Overview
Problem
User experience with integrated garage door opener electronics in vehicles is cumbersome, often requiring multiple entries and exits from the vehicle and providing minimal feedback during programming.
Innovation Solution
An integrated garage door opener system in a vehicle that operates with a touch screen or a separate electronic device, such as a smartphone, allowing for easy operation and programming by detecting garage door opener signals, determining the opener's characteristics, and providing specific programming instructions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If integrated garage door opener electronics are installed in a vehicle, then garage door operation capability is provided, but user experience becomes cumbersome requiring multiple entries and exits during programming
Solution Approach 1:
A portable electronic device serves as an intermediary between the user and the vehicle's garage door opener electronics. The device receives programming information from the vehicle's antenna system while the user remains outside the vehicle, eliminating the need for multiple entries and exits during the programming process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the traditional mechanical approach of manually entering the vehicle to access programming interfaces with a wireless electronic communication system. The portable device communicates with the vehicle's electronics through radio frequency signals, substituting physical entry with electromagnetic signal transmission.
2Adaptability or versatility
If integrated garage door opener electronics are installed in a vehicle, then garage door control is enabled, but user feedback during programming is minimal
Solution Approach 1:
The portable electronic device incorporates feedback mechanisms that provide real-time information to the user during the programming process. The device displays status updates, confirmation messages, and instructional information, ensuring the user has complete information about the programming state without needing to enter the vehicle.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional garage door opener programming is used in a vehicle, then programming functionality is provided, but the process requires multiple entries and exits from the vehicle
Solution Approach 1:
The portable electronic device is prepared in advance with the necessary communication protocols and interfaces to receive programming information from the vehicle. This preliminary preparation allows the programming process to occur efficiently in a single external interaction, eliminating the need for repeated vehicle entries and exits.
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AI summary
A vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes integrated garage door opener electronics including one or more antennas, and a processor coupled to the integrated garage door opener electronics and in communication with a touch screen. The processor is configured to detect, at the one or more antennas, a garage door opener signal from a garage door opener transmitter, determine, based on the detected garage door opener signal, one or more characteristics of a respective garage door opener associated with the garage door opener transmitter, and in accordance with a determination that instructions for programming the integrated garage door opener electronics to operate the respective garage door opener are available, display, on the touch screen, the instructions for programming the integrated garage door opener electronics to operate the respective garage door opener.