Display replication and control of a portable device via a wireless interface in an automobile

• US 20070143798A1
• Filed: 12/15/2005
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Inventors: Andrews, Michael, Fecher, Dana, Wingrove, Theodore, Jira, Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 8,136,138 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A system for displaying video data in a vehicle. The system intelligently replicates one or more portable device displays on one or more vehicle displays. Each vehicle display may be shared or dedicated to a specific portable device. The image from each portable device is intelligently replicated and provided to the vehicle integrated video system via a wireless communication link for display. The wireless communication link can provide the image to the vehicle integrated video system in real time to support both static images and dynamic images.

Claims

1. A system for displaying video data in a vehicle, the system comprising:

a portable electronic device including a device display, a device controller, and a wireless transmitter, the controller being configured to transmit the video data corresponding to a replica of an image rendered on the device display; and

a vehicle integrated video system including a vehicle display, a vehicle controller, and a wireless receiver, the controller being in electrical communication with the wireless receiver, and configured to retrieve the video data from the wireless receiver to render the video data on the vehicle display.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the wireless transmitter and wireless receiver communicate through an infrared communication link.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the wireless transmitter and wireless receiver communicate through a radio frequency communication link.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle display is located in a vehicle instrument cluster.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle display is mounted on the dashboard.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle display comprises a heads-up display.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle display comprises an overhead mounted video display.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle display comprises a seat back mounted video display.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle display is mounted to a middle console located between a pair of front vehicle seats.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle display comprises a trunk mounted video display.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to resize an image generated from the video data for rendering on the vehicle display.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to resample an image generated from the video data for rendering on the vehicle display.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to color shift an image generated from the video data for rendering on the vehicle display.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to change the aspect ratio of an image generated from the video data for rendering on the vehicle display.

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein the video data is used to construct an image for rendering on the vehicle display that is identical to the image rendered on the device display.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device comprised of a portable phone.

17. The system according to claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device comprised of a personal digital assistant.

18. The system according to claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device comprised of a compressed media player.

19. The system according to claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device comprises a portable navigation system.

20. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle controller is configured to continuously scan for the portable electronic device.

21. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle integrated video system includes a plurality of vehicle displays, a plurality of vehicle controllers, and a plurality of wireless receivers, each controller being in electrical communication with a corresponding wireless receiver and configured to retrieve the video data from each wireless receiver to render the video data on a corresponding vehicle display.

22. The system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle controller is in communication with a plurality of portable electronic devices and configured to replicate an image from each of the portable electronic devices onto the vehicle display.