Liquid crystal display unit for reconfigurable instrument for automotive applications

• Autorzy: Knoll P. M. , Kosmowski B. B.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Nowadays, the car drivers are faced with a rapidly increasing flood of information. In addition to established information systems (car radio, vehicle monitoring, mobile phones), high class vehicles feature navigation systems almost as standard. In the current decade, driver assistance and collision avoidance systems will appear in vehicles. Hence, there is an increasing demand for supplying the driver with more information that helps him to drive safer and more economical. The price decline in the computer market and the availability of powerful graphic hardware and software concepts make it possible to enhance the classical functions of the instrument board to an interactive multifunctional information panel-an interface between information systems of the car and the driver. Therefore, the question of additional visual and cognitive stress, and a possible distraction of the driver by the large amount of information, and its complexity becomes predominant. Reconfigurable instruments, based on a microprocessor controlled active matrix colour display, provide a powerful alternative to the usual mechanical / electromechanical instrument clusters in vehicles. They will help to strengthen passive safety, they adapt to user and situation requirements, and they are easy to install, to configure, and to maintain. Reconfigurable instruments in future cars will have a high impact on traffic since they can provide the driver with much more information, presenting it in a way that is flexibly matched to the importance of particular data and to the ergonomic properties of the driver. The functions are manifold and span from classical driver information like speed to navigation prompts and ultimately to video and multimedia acces.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

liquid crystal displays; reconfigurable instruments; automotive dashboards

• Wydawca: Stowarzyszenie Elektryków Polskich ; Polska Akademia Nauk ; Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna im. Jarosława Dąbrowskiego
• Czasopismo: Opto-Electronics Review
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: Vol. 10, No. 1
• Strony: 75--78
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 4 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Knoll P. M.

autor

Kosmowski B. B.

• University of Karlsruhe, Kaiserstr 12, 76-128 Karlsruhe, Germany,

Bibliografia

• 1. W. König, Ch. Heiland-Franzen, P. M. Knoll, and B. Wagner, "Man machine interface, development and simulation", Proc. ATA-Symp. New Frontiers for Auto-motive Electronics, ATA-EL 93, 7-16 (1993)
• 2. P. M. Knoll and R. Vollmer, "Car information, communication and entertainment system - advances and new developments", SAE Technical Paper Series 941040, Proc. SAE Int. Symposium, 1-6 (1994).
• 3. P. M. Knoll, "Car information systems - concept for the world market", Proc. FISITA Int. Conf. Paper Rl201, 1996.
• 4. B. B. Kosmowski, "Information imaging", Opto-Electron. Rev. 5, 11-27 (1997).