Integrated functionality of center display, driver display, and shared-experience display

US11042341B2 · kind B2 · utility

Inventors

• Victoria Rush · San Jose, US
• Keijiro Ikebe · Cupertino, US
• Andre Nitze · Yucca Valley, US
• Dominick Aviado · San Francisco, US
• Saurabh Rathi · Sunnyvale, US
• Jack Cong · Livermore, US
• Perry Chan · San Francisco, US
• Nicole Smith · San Jose, US
• Shyam Narayan · Redmond, US
• Neeraja Kukday · San Jose, US
• Yang Cao · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 4, 2019
• Grant date: Jun 22, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09G2380/10
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Systems and methods for selecting a control mode to launch an application in a vehicle are described. For one embodiment, a system for selecting control modes for launching applications in a vehicle with a dashboard screen can include a computing device embedded in the vehicle, the computing device connected to the dashboard screen and a control display; and an operating system installed on the computing device, the operating system running a multi-display controller and one or more applications. The multi-display controller is to receive a request from the control display for launching an application, determine a control mode used to launch the application based on an integration level indicator of the application, and launch the application in the determined control mode. A metabar and a global widget can be created on top of the dashboard screen. The metabar is permanently displayed across the dashboard screen, and can contain environmental and driving-related information. The global widget appears contextually in response to a state change of a system component in the vehicle.