Vehicle Lamp Display Integration for Clear External Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle lamps lack the ability to effectively interact with external objects, leading to confusion and inaccurate decision-making by pedestrians or drivers due to unclear vehicle operations, especially when multiple functions are shared by a single lamp.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle lighting system with integrated displays within vehicle lamps that emit light and display specific information about the vehicle's operation, controlled by a control device that acquires and processes vehicle decisions and perception data to provide clear interaction cues.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If vehicle lamps only provide illumination and warning functions, then the device complexity is low, but the information transmission capability to external objects is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the vehicle lamp and display into a single integrated unit. The display is embedded within the lamp housing, allowing the same component to serve both illumination/warning functions and information display functions. This merging resolves the contradiction by enabling enhanced information transmission without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle lamp system is designed to perform multiple functions: traditional illumination, warning signals, and interactive information display. By making the lamp system universal, it can convey both basic safety information and detailed operational context (such as braking reasons or lane change intentions), thereby improving information transmission capability while utilizing existing structural components.
2Ease of operation
If vehicle lamps provide basic illumination and warning functions, then the ease of operation is high, but the interaction quality with external objects is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by displaying information about the vehicle's operational decisions to external objects. The control device receives decision information from the vehicle's control system and feeds it back to external objects through the display, allowing pedestrians and other drivers to understand the vehicle's intentions. This improves interaction quality while the automated control process manages system complexity.
3Device complexity
If multiple trigger operation buttons are shared by a single vehicle lamp, then the device complexity is reduced, but the clarity of operation indication to external objects deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the information display function from the traditional lamp functions by incorporating a display within the lamp housing. This allows different operational information (braking, turning, lane changing) to be displayed separately and specifically, resolving the ambiguity that arises when multiple functions are triggered by a single lamp without additional indication mechanisms.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances interaction clarity with external objects by providing accurate and specific information about vehicle operations, improving decision-making and traffic flow efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
a light source disposed within the housing, the light source being configured to emit light
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure provides a vehicle lighting system with display interaction information, including a vehicle lamp, a display, and a control device. The vehicle lamp includes a housing and a light source within the housing for emits light, the vehicle lamp is arranged according to vehicle regulations; the display is within the housing. The control device includes one or more processor configured to: acquire a decision of a currently executed operation of the vehicle and perception information; determine whether to illuminate the display or not based on the decision of the currently executed operation of the vehicle; determine content to be displayed based on the perception information, and control the display to display the content; the content displayed on the display being selected from a plurality of predetermined contents to demonstrate the decision of the currently executed operation of the vehicle for interaction with an external object.