CUSTOMIZABLE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER USER INTERFACE

• US 20160291806A1
• Filed: 04/02/2015
• Published: 10/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: CIVIERO, Christian, FODERA, Joseph Angelo, NAGAITIS, Paul James, DIONYSSOPOULOS, Stavros, DIEHL, Cary Ochen
• Application Number:
  US14/677,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20160291806A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/143 Touch sensitive instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/55 Remote control arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/782 on the steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/11 Graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/143 Touch sensitive input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/154 Combined instruments with analogue meters and additional displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/55 Remote controls
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/782 on the steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/215 characterised by the combination of multiple visual outputs, e.g. combined instruments with analogue meters and additional displays
• 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: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

A vehicle may include a display, human-machine-interface (HMI) controls, and an information display system. The information display system may receive input to the HMI controls to transition to a next screen in a sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens otherwise available, via the display, within a set of navigable categories of user-interface screens, and update the display to provide the next screen responsive to the input. A vehicle gauge cluster may be configured to when in an add/remove mode, adjust inclusion of screens within a sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens responsive to user input; when in a reorder mode, adjust ordering of screens within a sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens responsive to user input; and when in a view mode, cycle through screens in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens responsive to user input.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

a display;

human-machine-interface (HMI) controls; and

an information display system configured to

receive input provided to the HMI controls to transition to a next screen in a sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens otherwise available, via the display, within a set of navigable categories of user-interface screens; and

update the display to provide the next screen responsive to the input.

2. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the information display system is further configured to provide, in the display, a page indication descriptive of where in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens the next screen is located.

3. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the information display system is further configured to maintain display settings indicative of which of the user-interface screens otherwise available within the set of categories of user-interface screens are included in the sequence of bookmarked user interface screens.

4. The vehicle of claim 3, wherein the information display system is further configured to maintain display settings indicative of ordering of the user-interface screens included in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens, and identify the next screen in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens according to the ordering.

5. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the information display system is further configured to present the bookmarked screens as a category of user-interface screens accompanying the set of navigable categories of user-interface screens.

6. The vehicle of claim 5, wherein the information display system is further configured to present the set of navigable categories of user-interface screens and the bookmarked screens category as tabs within the display.

7. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the information display system is further configured to receive second user selection input to the HMI controls to transition to at least one of:

(i) an add/remove mode supporting configuration of which of the user-interface screens are included in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens; and

(ii) a reorder mode supporting configuration of an order in which of the user-interface screens are included in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens.

8. The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the information display system is further configured to allow the transition to a next screen in a sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens when the vehicle is in motive mode, but, when the vehicle is in motive mode prevent the transition into at least one of the add/remove mode and the reorder mode.

9. The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the display is included in a gauge cluster of the vehicle, and the human-machine-interface (HMI) controls include controls of a steering wheel of the vehicle.

10. A system comprising:

a vehicle gauge cluster configured to

when in an add/remove mode, adjust inclusion of screens within a sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens responsive to user input;

when in a reorder mode, adjust ordering of screens within the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens responsive to user input; and

when in a view mode, cycle through screens in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens responsive to user input.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the vehicle gauge cluster is further configured to prevent transition into the add/remove mode and the reorder mode when the vehicle is in motive mode.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein each of the screens is included in at least one of a set of navigable categories of user interface screens, the navigable categories including at least two of a trip/fuel category, a truck information category, a towing category, and an off-road category.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the user input is received via human-machine-interface (HMI) controls of the vehicle.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the HMI controls include steering wheel controls.

15. A computer-implemented method comprising:

in an edit mode, updating a sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens responsive to a selection of a user-interface screen within one of a set of navigable categories of user-interface screens accessible via a gauge-cluster vehicle display; and

in a view mode, updating the gauge-cluster vehicle display to provide a next screen responsive to receiving input to transition to the next screen in the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the set of navigable categories of user interface screens includes at least two of a trip/fuel category, a truck information category, a towing category, and an off-road category.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens includes a predetermined number of screens.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising including, in the display, a page indication illustrating the predetermined number of screens and a location of the screen provided to the display within the sequence of bookmarked user-interface screens.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the predetermined number of screens is between one and ten.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the predetermined number of screens is at least ten.