User Interface for Mobile Machines

• US 20170090741A1
• Filed: 09/20/2016
• Published: 03/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AGCO Corporation
• Original Assignee: AGCO Corporation
• Inventors: Tentinger, Nathan William, Buhler, Timothy Dan
• Application Number:
  US15/271,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20170090741A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/128 Axially displaceable input devices for instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/131 Pivotable input devices for instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/139 Clusters of instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/146 Instrument input by gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1464 3D-gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/148 Instrument input by voice
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/21 using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/589 Wireless data transfers
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/61 Specially adapted for utility vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/741 Instruments adapted for user detection
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/77 Instrument locations other than the dashboard
• 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 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/65 Instruments specially adapted for specific vehicle types or users, e.g. for left- or right-hand drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/654 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/658 the instruments being ergonomically adjustable to the user
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2200/22 : Agricultural vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 : Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 : by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 : Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 : using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 : for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 : User profiles; Roaming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 : Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/59 : inside of a vehicle, e.g. relating to seat occupancy, driver state or inner lighting conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/28 : Recognition of hand or arm movements, e.g. recognition of deaf sign language static hand signs G06V40/113

Abstract

A mobile machine includes an operator cabin, a user interface inside the operator cabin and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices are configured to identify an operator in the operator cabin, identify the mobile machine, and retrieve a user profile from a remote location, wherein the user profile is associated with the operator and indicates user interface settings specific to the operator and to the mobile machine. The one or more computing devices are further configured to enable the user interface according to the user profile.

Claims

1. A mobile machine comprising:

an operator cabin;

a user interface inside the operator cabin; and

one or more computing devices for

identifying an operator in the operator cabin,

identifying the mobile machine,

retrieving a user profile from a remote location, the user profile being associated with the operator and indicating user interface settings specific to the operator and to the mobile machine, and

enabling the user interface according to the user profile.

2. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1,

the user interface configured to present information about the mobile machine to the operator, and to enable the operator to manipulate one or more mechanical functions of the mobile machine,

the user interface settings indicating how the information about the mobile machine is presented to the user and how the operator manipulates the one or more mechanical functions of the mobile machine.

3. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1, the user interface including a plurality of display surfaces, and the user interface preferences including a position of a user interface element on at least one of the display surfaces.

4. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1, the user interface including a plurality of heads-up display surfaces corresponding to windows of the operator cabin, and the user interface preferences including which of the display surfaces to use and a position of a user interface element on at least one of the display surfaces.

5. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1, the user interface including sensors for detecting operator movement.

6. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 5, the user interface settings including an action performed by the mobile machine in response to an operator movement.

7. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1, the one or more computing devices configured to

determine a task being performed by the mobile machine, and

enable the user interface according to the user profile and according to the task.

8. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1, further comprising

an image capture device in the operator cabin,

the one or more computing devices configured to automatically identify the operator using image data from the image capture device.

9. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1, the one or more computing devices configured to modify the user profile and communicate the modified user profile to the remote location.

10. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 1,

the mobile machine further comprising a communications gateway,

the one or more computing devices configured to receive the user profile from the remote location via a wireless signal received through the communications gateway.

11. A mobile machine comprising:

an operator cabin;

a user interface in the operator cabin;

an attachment coupled with the mobile machine; and

one or more computing devices for

identifying an operator in the operator cabin,

identifying the attachment,

retrieving a user profile from a remote location, the user profile indicating user interface preferences specific to the operator and to the attachment, and

enabling a user interface according to the user profile.

12. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 11,

the user interface configured to present information about the attachment to the operator, and to enable the operator to manipulate the attachment,

the user interface settings indicating how the information about the attachment is presented to the user and how the operator manipulates the attachment.

13. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 11, the user interface including a plurality of display surfaces, and the user interface preferences including a position of a user interface element on at least one of the display surfaces.

14. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 11, the user interface including a plurality of heads-up display surfaces corresponding to windows of the operator cabin, and the user interface preferences including which of the display surfaces to use and a position of a user interface element on at least one of the display surfaces.

15. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 11, the user interface including sensors for detecting operator movement.

16. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 15, the user interface settings including predefined operator movement detected by the sensors and actions associated with the attachment in response to the predefined operator movement.

17. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 11, the one or more computing devices configured to

determine a task being performed by the mobile machine, and

enable the user interface according to the user profile and according to the task.

18. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 11, further comprising

an image capture device in the operator cabin,

the one or more computing devices configured to automatically identify the operator using image data from the image capture device.

19. The mobile machine as set forth in claim 11, the one or more computing devices configured to modify the user profile and communicate the modified user profile to the remote location.

20. A system comprising:

a central computing device;

a first mobile machine including

an operator cabin,

a user interface inside the operator cabin, and

one or more computing devices for

identifying an operator in the operator cabin,

retrieving a user profile from the central computing device, the user profile being associated with the operator and indicating user interface settings specific to the operator and to the first mobile machine,

enabling the user interface according to the user profile,

modifying the user profile, and

communicating the modified user profile to the central computing device; and

a second mobile machine including

an operator cabin,

a user interface inside the operator cabin, and

one or more computing devices for

identifying the operator in the operator cabin,

retrieving the modified user profile from the central computing device, the modified user profile being associated with the operator and indicating user interface settings specific to the operator and to the second mobile machine, and

enabling the user interface according to the modified user profile.