Display apparatus for vehicle and vehicle

• US 10,310,553 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2016
• Issued: 06/04/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, Changgeun, Song, Soono, An, Daehyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Ali, Mohammad
• Assistant Examiner(s): Booker, Kelvin
• Application Number:
  US15/348,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20170192451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/55 Remote control arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/566 Mobile devices displaying vehicle information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/573 Mobile devices controlling vehicle functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/405 Fogging prevention
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1917 using digital means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/206 comprising thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A display apparatus for a vehicle and including a display; a heating element configured to provide heat to the display; an interface configured to receive at least one of interior temperature information and exterior temperature information about the vehicle; and a processor configured to control the heating element to produce heat based on the received at least one of the interior temperature information and the exterior temperature information about the vehicle.

Claims

1. A display apparatus in a vehicle, the display apparatus comprising:

a display;

a heating element configured to provide heat to the display;

an interface configured to receive at least one of interior temperature information and exterior temperature information about the vehicle; and

a processor configured to;

control the heating element to produce heat based on the received at least one of the interior temperature information and the exterior temperature information about the vehicle,

receive event information including user approach event information via the interface,

control the heating element to produce heat based on the received event information,

control a degree of heating of the heating element according to a user approach speed included in the received user approach event information,

control the heating element to produce maximum heat and to control an air conditioner included in the vehicle to supply warm air to the display in response to receiving door opening event information, and

when the heating element fails, control the air conditioner included in the vehicle to supply warm air to the display.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to receive remote engine start event information via the interface.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to control the heating element to produce heat according to the received remote engine start event information.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the interior temperature information or the exterior temperature information to an external device through a wireless communication unit.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to receive, through the wireless communication unit, a control signal for controlling the heating element to produce heat from the external device.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the processor is further configured to provide the external device with information about whether or not the heating element produces heat through the wireless communication unit.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive a reservation time input via a touch input through the display, and

control the heating element to produce heat at the reservation time.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive a heating duration input via a touch input through the display, and

control the heating element to stop producing heat after the heating duration.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to control the heating element to stop producing heat, when an engine of the vehicle is not started after a predetermined time passes.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of surroundings of the display,

wherein the processor is further configured to control the heating element to maintain the temperature of the surroundings of the display within a predetermined range.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to control the heating element to stop producing heat, when the temperature of the surroundings of the display reaches a predetermined temperature value.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control a degree of heating of the heating element in proportion to an absolute value of an interior temperature or an exterior temperature included in the interior temperature information or the exterior temperature information, respectively, when the interior temperature or the exterior temperature is below 0°

C.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control a degree of heating of the heating element based on received location information.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the heating element is uncontrollable, the processor is further configured to control the air conditioner included in the vehicle to supply warm air to the display.