Vehicle Operating System Perspective Transitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle operating systems lack intuitive and smooth transitions between different perspectives and scales in displaying map and driver assistance information, leading to potentially confusing and unpleasant user experiences for drivers.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle operating system that uses a control device to couple navigation, monitoring, and display systems, allowing for continuous or discrete adjustments of display scale and angle along a predefined virtual path, enabling smooth transitions between perspectives from perpendicular to parallel views, and integrating real-time camera recordings for enhanced situational awareness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If discrete step changes are used for adjusting display scale and angle, then the system structure is simpler, but the transition between perspectives is less smooth and more confusing for users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of display scale and angle by allowing continuous modification along a predefined visualization path. The virtual camera position and orientation are dynamically updated based on operating actions, enabling smooth transitions between different perspectives (e.g., from top-down map view to angled perspective) without discrete step changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes display parameters (scale factor and viewing angle) continuously along a predefined path rather than in discrete steps. The virtual camera's position coordinates and orientation angles are modified progressively, creating a smooth visual transition that improves user experience while maintaining manageable control logic through parameterized paths.
2Loss of information
If multiple information sources (navigation and monitoring) are displayed separately, then information clarity is improved, but the display device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges navigation map information and monitoring system information into a single integrated display. The control device combines data from both systems and presents them together on the display device, allowing drivers to see both types of information simultaneously without needing separate display units, thus reducing overall system complexity while maintaining information clarity.
Solution Approach 2:
The display device is designed to serve multiple functions by displaying both navigation information and monitoring information. This multi-functional approach allows a single display device to replace what would otherwise require separate dedicated displays, reducing device complexity while ensuring clear presentation of all information types through appropriate visualization techniques.
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AI summary
A method for operating a vehicle operating system, wherein a navigation system provides map information, and a monitoring system monitors driver assistance information, which are displayed on a display device, wherein the navigation system, the monitoring system, the display device, and an operating device are coupled to a control device for data transfer, to display the map information and/or driver assistance information on the display, wherein an operating action is carried out by the operating device in order to change a display scale and/or a display angle in relation to a road surface between a first perspective and a second perspective, wherein the display scale and/or angle are adjusted continuously and/or discretely in at least two steps located within the two perspectives on a virtual visualization path, and wherein the first perspective is substantially perpendicular to the road surface and the second perspective is substantially parallel to the road surface.