Virtual Dashboard with Touchscreen and Wireless Connectivity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle dashboards are not customizable or integrated with wireless internet connectivity, leading to a lack of unified control over various vehicle systems and external services, requiring separate controls for different features and lacking interactive and internet-enabled functionalities.
Innovation Solution
A virtual dashboard with touchscreen displays and wireless network connectivity, allowing users to configure icons for accessing various vehicle functions, internet services, and external systems through tactile interaction, voice recognition, and biometric inputs, enabling customizable and integrated control of vehicle systems and external services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate control systems are used for different vehicle features, then each system can be independently controlled, but the dashboard complexity increases and requires multiple separate controls
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate control systems into a single integrated touchscreen dashboard interface. Instead of having separate physical controls for climate, audio, navigation, and other vehicle systems, all these functions are consolidated into one unified touchscreen display that provides a common interface for controlling all vehicle features through software-based controls.
Solution Approach 2:
The touchscreen dashboard serves as a universal control interface that can access and control multiple different vehicle systems and external services through configurable icons. The same touchscreen interface can be customized to provide access to climate control, audio system, navigation, vehicle diagnostics, internet services, and other functions, making it a multi-functional device that replaces multiple specialized controls.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed dashboard design is used, then manufacturing is simpler, but the system lacks adaptability to different user preferences and new services
Solution Approach 1:
The dashboard interface is designed to be dynamic and reconfigurable through software rather than being fixed in hardware. Users can customize the touchscreen display by adding, removing, or repositioning icons based on their preferences and needs. The system can adapt its interface layout and available functions dynamically, allowing the same physical dashboard to serve different users and provide access to new services without requiring physical redesign or remanufacturing.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional dashboard controls are used, then the interface is simple and reliable, but wireless connectivity and internet services cannot be accessed
Solution Approach 1:
The touchscreen dashboard serves as a universal interface that integrates both traditional vehicle control functions and modern internet-based services. Through configurable icons, the same interface provides access to vehicle systems (climate, audio, navigation) and external services (email, web browsing, social media, streaming) via wireless connectivity, consolidating multiple functions into one system without requiring separate interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a dashboard including one or more touchscreen displays; a wireless network interface; and multiple icons for presentation by one or more of the touchscreen displays to a user in the vehicle. Each of one or more of the icons is configurable by the user through tactile interaction with the icon via one or more of the touchscreen displays. Each of the icons when presented to the user makes accessible to the user through one or more of the touchscreen displays particular functionality. The vehicle includes software associated with the icons that is operable to render the icons on the touchscreen displays and implement their functionality.