Flexible and variability-accommodating instrument cluster display

US11584232B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• PACCAR Inc · US

Inventors

• Steven Karl Jahns · Bellingham, US
• Ryan Anthony Reed · Kenmore, US
• Jonathan Duncan · Seattle, US
• Derek Sancer · Denton, US
• Jon Forrest Acton · Dallas, US
• Jacob Michael White · Flower Mound, US
• David Leetz · Denton, US
• Steven Robert Rainey · Park Springs, US
• Mark Wagner · Bellevue, US
• Raeef Hesham Wahib Barsoum · Bellingham, US
• Anna-Magdalena Schatz · Bensheim, DE
• Tobias Graening · Mühlheim am Main, DE
• Christina Nenke · Zwingenberg, DE
• Marc George Wilczak · Sylvia Park, US
• Nicole Johnson · Dallas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 9, 2020
• Grant date: Feb 21, 2023
• Expiry date: Dec 31, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60Y2200/14
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer readable storage media provide a flexible and variability-accommodating instrument cluster for display on an in-vehicle screen and a user experience interaction model for providing vehicle status-related information via the instrument cluster. The instrument cluster may be shown in a minimized content view, basic content view, or enhanced content view, wherein each content view may include a varying range of displayed information based on a layout template. The driver can easily scroll between the various content views while driving. The instrument cluster may alternatively be shown in a favorites view, amongst a plurality of preconfigured favorites views associated with different drivers, the favorites view including a user-selected set of gauges in a user-selected layout. A steering wheel-based shortcut control is provided that can be assigned to a changeable parameter and used to toggle the parameter in association with an instrument cluster display element while driving.