SAFETY CRITICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISTRACTION OF AN OPERATOR OF A SAFETY CRITICAL APPARATUS
First Claim
1. A safety critical apparatus, comprisinga set of safety relevant modules;
- one or more comfort modules having one or more user interfaces; and
a distraction controlling device arranged to adapt at least one of said one or more user interfaces to a current situation of operation of said safety critical apparatus, said distraction controlling device comprisingan operator imposition estimation unit arranged to receive a set of safety relevant status signals from said set of safety relevant modules and to provide a current acceptable-distraction threshold value depending on said set of safety relevant status signals;
a distraction managing unit arranged to receive one or more comfort status signals from said one or more comfort modules and to provide a current distraction value depending on said one or more comfort status signals; and
a decision unit arranged to receive said current acceptable-distraction threshold value and said current distraction value and to provide one or more deactivation decision signals for said one or more user interfaces of said one or more comfort modules when said current distraction value exceeds said current acceptable-distraction threshold value.
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Abstract
A safety critical apparatus comprises a set of safety relevant modules; one or more comfort modules having one or more user interfaces; and a distraction controlling device arranged to adapt at least one of the one or more user interfaces to a current situation of operation of the safety critical apparatus. The distraction controlling device comprises an operator imposition estimation unit arranged to receive a set of safety relevant status signals from the set of safety relevant modules and to provide a current acceptable-distraction threshold value depending on the set of safety relevant status signals; a distraction managing unit arranged to receive one or more comfort status signals from the one or more comfort modules and to provide a current distraction value depending on the one or more comfort status signals; and a decision unit arranged to receive the current acceptable-distraction threshold value and the current distraction value and to provide one or more deactivation decision signals for the one or more user interfaces of the one or more comfort modules when the current distraction value exceeds the current acceptable-distraction threshold value.
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16 Claims
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1. A safety critical apparatus, comprising
a set of safety relevant modules; -
one or more comfort modules having one or more user interfaces; and a distraction controlling device arranged to adapt at least one of said one or more user interfaces to a current situation of operation of said safety critical apparatus, said distraction controlling device comprising an operator imposition estimation unit arranged to receive a set of safety relevant status signals from said set of safety relevant modules and to provide a current acceptable-distraction threshold value depending on said set of safety relevant status signals; a distraction managing unit arranged to receive one or more comfort status signals from said one or more comfort modules and to provide a current distraction value depending on said one or more comfort status signals; and a decision unit arranged to receive said current acceptable-distraction threshold value and said current distraction value and to provide one or more deactivation decision signals for said one or more user interfaces of said one or more comfort modules when said current distraction value exceeds said current acceptable-distraction threshold value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for controlling distraction of an operator of a safety critical apparatus comprising a set of safety relevant modules, one or more comfort modules having one or more user interfaces and a distraction controlling device arranged to adapt at least one of said one or more user interfaces to a current situation operation of said safety critical apparatus;
- said method comprising
receiving a set of safety relevant status signals from said set of safety relevant modules; providing a current acceptable-distraction threshold value depending on said set of safety relevant status signals; receiving one or more comfort status signals from said one or more comfort modules; providing a current distraction value depending on said one or more comfort status signals; and providing one or more deactivation decision signals for said one or more user interfaces of said one or more comfort modules when said current distraction value exceeds said current acceptable-distraction threshold value. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
- said method comprising
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