Icon featured touch screen display system including status shortcuts for a work vehicle and method of managing the same

• US 9,575,628 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2013
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deere & Company
• Original Assignee: Deere & Company
• Inventors: Meegan, Robert, Newendorp, Bruce, Hoffman, Joshua D., Vander Wiel, Kurtis, McKay, Sean
• Primary Examiner(s): Martello, Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/906,520
• Publication Number:
  US 20140298228A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,362 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/122 Instrument input devices with reconfigurable control functions, e.g. reconfigurable menus
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/171 Vehicle or relevant part thereof displayed
• 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 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

At least one example embodiment discloses a method for generating a touch screen display. The method includes establishing a run screen on the touch screen display, the run screen associated with a function of a work vehicle, configuring the run screen with a retractable toolbar, the retractable toolbar responsive to an action of a user of the touch screen display and deployable over a first portion of the run screen upon the action of the user and otherwise hiding to display a second portion of the run screen, the second portion of the run screen being at least a majority portion of the run screen and defining one or more transient user-definable buttons on the retractable toolbar associated with at least one of the function and the run screen.

Claims

1. A method for managing a display of a display system, the method comprising:

establishing a run screen associated with a first function of a work vehicle;

providing a location-determining receiver for potential guidance of the work vehicle;

establishing a plurality of performance states of at least one of the location-determining receiver and a guidance controller; and

displaying one or more of the performance states by corresponding visually displayable states without changing to another screen of the display, wherein the corresponding visually displayable states are displayed on an icon on the run screen, the corresponding visually displayable states being different transitions of the icon and the performance states are installed, configured, enabled and activated, the icon maintaining a same shape during the different transitions and the icon includes a Plurality of sections, the different transitions include shading different sections of the icon to correspond to the performance states, the different shadings correspond to the installed, configured, enabled and activated performance states, respectively.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

changing the transition of the icon in response to a user command entered into a touch screen display.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

changing the transition of the icon in response to status message data provided by the at least one of the location-determining receiver and the guidance controller.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

issuing a call from a display operating system to a guidance program module, wherein the transition of the icon occurs in response to data transmitted from the guidance program module in reply to the call.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the guidance program module is one of (1) continuously active in a background data processing of the display system and (2) loaded into executable memory for the data processor.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

changing the corresponding visually displayable state in response to a user command entered into a touch screen display.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first function is one of planting, plowing, spraying and harvesting.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

configuring the run screen with a retractable toolbar on the display, the icon being on the retractable toolbar.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

deploying the retractable toolbar over a first portion of the run screen.

10. A data processor for managing a display of a display system, the data processor configured to,

establish a run screen associated with a first function of a work vehicle;

provide a location-determining receiver for potential guidance of the work vehicle;

establish a plurality of performance states of at least one of the location-determining receiver and a guidance controller; and

display one or more of the performance states by corresponding visually displayable states without changing to another screen of the display, wherein the corresponding visually displayable states are displayed on an icon on the run screen, the corresponding visually displayable states being different transitions of the icon and the performance states are installed, configured, enabled and activated, the icon maintaining a same shape during the different transitions and the icon includes a plurality of sections, the different transitions include shading different sections of the icon to correspond to the performance states, the different shadings correspond to the installed, configured, enabled and activated performance states, respectively.

11. The data processor of claim 10, wherein the data processor is further configured to configure the run screen with a retractable toolbar on the display, the icon being on the retractable toolbar.

12. The data processor of claim 10, wherein the data processor is further configured to deploy the retractable toolbar over a first portion of the run screen.