VEHICLE INSTRUMENT PANEL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140200743A1
• Filed: 07/29/2013
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KWON, Seung-Joon, LEE, Moon-Soo, KIM, Min-Jung, KIM, Sun-Joong, CHO, Kee-Seong
• Granted Patent: US 9,008,863 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/2
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/186 Displaying information according to relevancy
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/566 Mobile devices displaying vehicle information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/5894 SIM cards
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/592 Data transfer involving external databases
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

A vehicle instrument panel apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive a widget or content transmitted from one or more user terminals, an instrument panel page constituted of a plurality of instrument panel containers in which the widget or content is embedded, a converting unit configured to generate data capable of being embedded in the instrument panel containers according to a type of the received widget or content, an execution unit configured to load the instrument panel page to a screen, a sensing data acquiring unit configured to acquire measurement information input through one or more sensors, and an interface unit configured to combine the measurement information acquired by the sensing data acquiring unit with the instrument panel page loaded by the execution unit.

Claims

1. A vehicle instrument panel apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive a widget or content transmitted from one or more user terminals;

an instrument panel page constituted of a plurality of instrument panel containers in which the widget or content is embedded;

a converting unit configured to generate data capable of being embedded in the instrument panel containers according to a type of the received widget or content;

an execution unit configured to load the instrument panel page to a screen;

a sensing data acquiring unit configured to acquire measurement information input through one or more sensors; and

an interface unit configured to combine the measurement information acquired by the sensing data acquiring unit with the instrument panel page loaded by the execution unit.

2. The instrument panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the widget is a web application comprising at least one of a gasoline mileage representation application, a navigation application, a global positioning system (GPS) layout application, a speed/torque layout-related application, a vehicle revolutions per minute (RPM) application, and a safe driving-related warning application.

3. The instrument panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensor is at least one of an RPM measurement sensor, a fuel level sensor, a gyro sensor, a GPS sensor, a coolant temperature sensor, an engine oil sensor, an acceleration sensor, a door open/close sensor, and a safe driving information acquiring unit.

4. The instrument panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interface unit transmits a screen obtained by combining the measurement information displayed on the screen with the instrument panel page through the communication unit so that the screen is shared with the user terminal.

5. The instrument panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interface unit adjusts a vehicle state displayed on the screen according to a control signal from the user terminal.

6. A relay server comprising:

an access authentication unit configured to perform authentication for an access right according to a request for access of a user terminal to a vehicle instrument panel apparatus and permit the access to the vehicle instrument panel apparatus; and

a relay unit configured to relay widget and content transmission and reception to and from the user terminal of which the access is permitted.

7. The relay server of claim 6, wherein the relay unit transmits a widget and content to another user terminal according to a request of the other user terminal.

8. The relay server of claim 6, further comprising a database (DB) storing at least one of an instrument panel shape, instrument panel configuration contents, and an arranged widget and content.

9. The relay server of claim 8, wherein the instrument panel shape, the instrument panel configuration contents, and the arranged widget and content are provided to another user terminal or the DB.

10. A method of controlling a vehicle instrument panel through sharing with a user terminal in a vehicle instrument panel apparatus, comprising:

receiving a widget or content transmitted from one or more user terminals;

performing conversion into data capable of being embedded in one or more instrument panel containers constituting an instrument panel page according to a type of the received widget or content;

loading the instrument panel page to a screen;

acquiring measurement information of the vehicle input through one or more sensors; and

combining the acquired measurement information with the instrument panel page loaded to the screen.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting a screen obtained by combining the measurement information displayed on the screen with the instrument panel page to the user terminal.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

adjusting a vehicle state displayed on the screen according to a control signal from the user terminal.