Method and system for displaying information and vehicle infotainment system

• US 20050231529A1
• Filed: 12/17/2002
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Kersken, Ulrich, Skwarek, Volker
• Application Number:
  US10/499,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20050231529A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968

Abstract

In a system and a method for displaying information on a display controlled by a display controller, display controller includes a memory and a program. Subjects having corresponding priorities are stored in memory. A data source, e.g., telephone, radio or navigation system is unambiguously assigned to each subject. The highest-priority subject is displayed on main display window and the other low-priority subjects are displayed on secondary display windows and. If there is a change in information in one of the secondary display windows, the particular subject is displayed at least temporarily on main display window.

Claims

1-28. -28. (canceled)

29. A system for displaying information in a motor vehicle, comprising:

a display device configured to display information assigned to subjects in a main display window and in at least one secondary display window;

an storage device configured to store the subjects and an assignment of a highest priority to one of the subjects; and

an arrangement configured to generate a display on the display device to display information assigned to a highest-priority subject in the main display window and to display information assigned to a low-priority subject in one of the secondary display windows.

30. The system of claim 29, further comprising an input device configured to at least one of (a) input and (b) select subjects from the storage device at least of the highest priority.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein the display device includes a touch screen configured to implement the input device.

32. The system of claim 30, wherein the input device includes a graphic user interface.

33. The system of claim 29, wherein the display device includes:

a main display area in a 4;

3 format configured to display the main display window; and

a secondary display area configured to display the secondary display window; and

wherein a total area formed by the main display area and the secondary display area is in a 16;

9 format.

34. The system of claim 33, wherein the secondary display window has a predetermined size.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the size of the secondary display window corresponds to an available secondary display area divided by a number of the secondary display windows.

36. The system of claim 34, wherein the size is independently adjustable by a data source.

37. The system of claim 29, wherein a data source is configured to define additional subwindows in a respective window and to make other data sources available for display.

38. The system of claim 37, wherein the data source is configured to (a) one of obtain subwindows of other data sources and (b) assign the subwindows to contents, a navigation map data source is configured to assign a window to a navigation data source and to assign another small window to a position finding data source to display a quality of GPS reception.

39. The system of claim 29, further comprising a display controller including a memory configured to store the subjects and priorities assigned to the subjects.

40. The system of claim 29, further comprising an arrangement configured to connect a set of data sources, each of the data sources configured to supply data on one subject.

41. The system of claim 29, further comprising an arrangement configured to scale data assigned to a subject for display in one of the secondary display windows.

42. The system of claim 29, further comprising an arrangement configured to visually emphasize a secondary display window when there is a change in corresponding information.

43. The system of claim 29, further comprising an arrangement configured to alter assignment of a data source from a secondary display window to the main display window when corresponding information changes.

44. The system of claim 43, wherein the arrangement configured to alter assignment is configured to perform a reverse assignment one of (a) after confirmation that a driver has taken note of altered information and (b) after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

45. The system of claim 29, further comprising an arrangement configured to send a message to each data source which is assigned to a secondary display window, the message including a statement about a size of the secondary display window.

46. The system of claim 29, further comprising an input device configured to at least one of (a) input and (b) select subjects from the storage device of at least the highest priority and a unique priority to each subject selected.

47. The system of claim 36, wherein the size is reduceable to allow more display space for other data sources.

48. A vehicle infotainment system, comprising:

a system configured to display information in a motor vehicle, including

a display device configured to display information assigned to subjects in a main display window and in at least one secondary display window;

an storage device configured to store the subjects and an assignment of a highest priority to one of the subjects; and

an arrangement configured to generate a display on the display device to display information assigned to a highest-priority subject in the main display window and to display information assigned to a low-priority subject in one of the secondary display windows; and

data sources configured for supplying information.

49. The vehicle infotainment system of claim 48, further comprising an arrangement configured to scale the information in each of the data sources as a function of a size of a corresponding secondary display window.

50. The vehicle infotainment system of claim 48, further comprising an arrangement configured to send a message in each of the data sources to signal a change in a corresponding information with respect to the arrangement configured to generate the display.

51. A method for displaying information in a vehicle, comprising:

displaying information assigned to a highest-priority subject in a main display window;

displaying information assigned to a low-priority subject in a secondary display window;

displaying the low-priority subject in the main display window and displaying the highest-priority subject in the secondary display window one of (a) when information about the low-priority subject has changed and (b) on a basis of a corresponding input by a user.

52. The method of claim 51, further comprising:

selecting subjects by the user; and

assigning priorities by the user.

53. The method of claims 51, further comprising temporarily changing priority assignment.

54. The method of claim 51, further comprising temporarily changing priority assignment one of (a) for a predetermined period of time and (b) until confirmation that altered information has been noted is provided by the user.

55. The method of claim 51, further comprising visually emphasizing a corresponding secondary display window before a change in assignment is made when there is a change in information assigned to the low-priority subject.

56. The method of claim 51 further comprising:

sending a message containing a size of the secondary display is sent to data sources assigned to the secondary display window; and

scaling information assigned to the low-priority subject in the data sources.

57. The method of claim 56, wherein the scaling is performed so that scaled information is detectable visually by the user in the corresponding secondary display windows.

58. The method of claim 56, wherein the information is scaled so that it is reduced to one acoustic output when one of (a) a corresponding window size and (b) no window at all is available.

59. A computer program stored on a memory configured to be executed by a computer, the computer program comprising program code for displaying information in a vehicle in accordance with a method including:

displaying information assigned to a highest-priority subject in a main display window;

displaying information assigned to a low-priority subject in a secondary display window;

displaying the low-priority subject in the main display window and displaying the highest-priority subject in the secondary display window one of (a) when information about the low-priority subject has changed and (b) on a basis of a corresponding input by a user.