Vehicle Image Display Adaptation for Driver Safety

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Solution Overview

Problem

Image display devices in vehicles face challenges in effectively processing and displaying images from mobile terminals, particularly in ensuring driver safety by adapting image content based on vehicle speed and preventing distractions during travel.

Innovation Solution

An image display device that detects image characteristic information, extracts relevant areas, and applies image processing schemes such as magnification, resolution change, or substitution based on vehicle speed conditions to prioritize safe driving, while maintaining user convenience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the image display device displays all images from the mobile terminal, then the user can view complete content, but the driver may be distracted and safety is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage content completenessVSAvoiddriver distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The controller segments the received image into multiple areas (first area, second area, third area) based on image characteristic information. Different areas are processed differently: the first area is magnified and displayed prominently, the second area is processed according to travel regulation conditions, and the third area is displayed normally. This segmentation allows important information to be highlighted while reducing distracting elements, resolving the contradiction between content completeness and driver safety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If the image is magnified to improve visibility, then the user can view details more clearly, but the overall image quality and resolution may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage detail visibilityVSAvoidimage resolution
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The controller applies different processing schemes to different areas of the image. The first area (containing important characteristic information) is magnified with enhanced processing to ensure detail visibility. The second and third areas are processed with appropriate resolution adjustments. This local quality approach ensures that critical areas maintain high detail visibility while overall image quality is preserved through selective processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If the image processing is complex to extract and analyze characteristic information, then accurate area extraction is achieved, but the processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearea extraction accuracyVSAvoidimage processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The controller performs preliminary detection of image characteristic information (such as identifying key objects, text, or important features) before proceeding to area extraction and processing. This preliminary action allows the system to quickly identify regions of interest and apply appropriate processing schemes, reducing overall processing time while maintaining extraction accuracy through targeted analysis rather than exhaustive processing of the entire image.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9437157B2Image processing apparatus and image processing method
Publication Date: 2016.09.06 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A display system including a communication unit to receive streamed data from a mobile terminal located within the vehicle; a first display unit operatively connected to the communication unit and installed in a first location in the vehicle, the first display unit to display the streamed data; and a second display unit operatively connected to the communication unit and installed in a second location in the vehicle different than the first location, the second display unit to display the streamed data. Further, the first display unit interrupts the display of the streamed data by the first display unit while the mobile terminal processes an incoming or outgoing call, and the second display unit continues to display the streamed data while the mobile terminal processes the incoming or outgoing call.