Vehicle and method and apparatus for controlling multi-screen system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12384245-B2
Application number	US-202017439096-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2020
Priority date	Mar 20, 2019
Publication date	Aug 12, 2025
Grant date	Aug 12, 2025

Abstract

A method for controlling a multi-screen system includes acquiring a control instruction for the multi-screen system; and controlling a plurality of display screens to move according to the control instruction. The multi-screen system includes a plurality of display screens and a driving mechanism configured to drive the plurality of display screens to move in space.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a multi-screen system of a vehicle, wherein the multi-screen system comprises a plurality of display screens and a driving mechanism configured to drive the plurality of display screens to move in space, the method comprising:
acquiring a control instruction for the multi-screen system; and
controlling the plurality of display screens to move according to the control instruction,
wherein the controlling the plurality of display screens to move according to the control instruction comprises:
generating a movement control instruction for each display screen, and executing the movement control instruction for each display screen,
wherein the generating a movement control instruction for each display screen comprises:
determining a target combination mode of the display screens in the multi-screen system, wherein under the target combination mode, the display screens have at least two different orientations of the target combination mode, wherein the driving mechanism automatically drives at least one of the display screens to a first orientation on a transverse guide rail, and automatically drives at least one of the display screens to a second orientation on a longitudinal rail, wherein the transverse guide rail and the longitudinal rail are separately provided for each display screen, and the transverse guide rail and the longitudinal rail are respectively connected to a lower guide rail and an upper guide rail on the vehicle; and
generating the movement control instruction for each display screen according to the target combination mode.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the generating the movement control instruction for each display screen according to the target combination mode comprises:
identifying a current combination mode of the multi-screen system; and
generating the movement control instruction of the display screen according to the current combination mode and the target combination mode, where the movement control instruction comprises a movement trajectory of the display screen.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the generating the movement control instruction for each display screen according to the target combination mode comprises:
extracting a target position of each display screen from the target combination mode;
acquiring a current position and an initial position of each display screen; and
generating the movement control instruction of the display screen according to the current position, the initial position and the target position, where the movement control instruction comprises a movement trajectory of the display screen.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the target combination mode is a first combination mode, where in the first combination mode, spacings exist between the display screens.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein in the first combination mode, each display screen is at the initial position; and
the executing the movement control instruction for each display screen comprises:
for each display screen, driving the driving mechanism of the display screen according to the movement control instruction for the display screen, to control each display screen to move from the current position to the initial position, to form the first combination mode.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein after the forming the first combination mode, the method further comprises:
controlling a part of the display screens to continue with at least one of rotation or telescoping movement, so that distances between the part of the display screens and a set reference are different from distances between the remaining display screens and the set reference.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the method further comprises:
controlling the part of the display screens to move from the initial position in a direction away from the set reference by the same or different distances.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the method further comprises:
adjusting displaying angles of the part of the display screens according to at least one of positions of the part of the display screens and a position of a pupil of a user facing the part of the display screens.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
the target combination mode is a second combination mode, the second combination mode comprises at least one tiled screen, and the tiled screen comprises at least two first display screens to be tiled; and
the executing the movement control instruction for each display screen comprises:
analyzing the movement control instructions for all the display screens, and identifying, from all the display screens, the first display screens comprised in each tiled screen;
driving, for each tiled screen, the driving mechanism of the first display screens according to the movement control instructions for the first display screens, to cause the first display screens to move, to obtain the tiled screen; and
driving, for each of remaining second display screens other than the tiled screens, the driving mechanism of the second display screen according to the movement control instruction for the second display screen, to control the second display screen to move from the current position to the target position at which the second display screen is located in the target combination mode.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the method further comprises:
receiving a position adjustment instruction for at least one tiled screen, and controlling, according to the position adjustment instruction, the at least one tiled screen to telescope back and forth, move left and right, or move up and down from the current position.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the method further comprises:
the tiling comprises at least one of tiling the display screens in a first direction and tiling the display screens in a second direction.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the method further comprises:
controlling landscape or portrait switching of each display screen in the tiled screen and adjusting a displaying angle of each display screen in the tiled screen,
wherein the tiled screen includes one landscape oriented display screen and two portrait oriented display screens.

13. The method according to claim 9 , wherein after the forming the tiled screen, the method further comprises:
dividing, according to at least one of a size of the tiled screen and a quantity of the display screens comprised in the tiled screen, information to be displayed on the tiled screen, to form information elements; and
allocating a corresponding information element to each display screen in the tiled screen according to a position of each display screen of the tiled screen in the tiled screen and a displaying position corresponding to each information element.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the forming the target combination mode, the method further comprises:
acquiring status information of the vehicle, and determining a display content of each display screen according to the status information and the target combination mode.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
there are a plurality of driving mechanisms corresponding one-to-one to the display screens, and each of the driving mechanisms comprises a rotating disc, a universal ball joint, a telescopic tubular column, and a direction control apparatus;
one end of the rotating disc is connected to the display screen, and an other end of the rotating disc is connected to one end of the universal ball joint;
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Assignees

• Byd Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lian Yubo
• Zhong Yilin
• Zhao Na
• Liang Qun
• Peng bei

Classifications

• B60K2360/182

  Distributing information between displays · CPC title

• B60K2360/167

  Vehicle dynamics information · CPC title

• B60K2360/149

  Instrument input by detecting viewing direction not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• B60K35/658

  the instruments being ergonomically adjustable to the user · CPC title

• B60K35/81

  for controlling displays · CPC title