CLUSTERED INSTRUMENT PANEL IN A TRANSPORTATION APPARATUS

摘要

A clustered instrument panel on a display of a dashboard in a transportation apparatus is disclosed. The clustered instrument panel may be used to combine multiple individual instrument panels, such as the odometer, tachometer, temperature meter, battery meter, navigation screen and any other instrument panels that are traditionally presented separate and independent from other instrument panels. The individual instrument panels may be layered on top of each other to form the clustered instrument panel, with gradual increase in size from the first instrument panel to the nth instrument panel. Information associated with a given instrument panel in the clustered instrument panel may be presented in the gap area between the given instrument panel and the neighbor instrument panel in the clustered instrument panel. In one embodiment, the clustered instrument panel is a triple-circle meter.

主权项

1. A method for providing information display in a transportation apparatus, the method comprising:
providing a display on at least a portion of a dashboard of the transportation apparatus, wherein the display is capable of graphically displaying a clustered instrument panel, wherein the clustered instrument panel includes a first instrument panel and a second instrument panel disposed within the clustered instrument panel such that the first instrument panel occupies an innermost area of the clustered instrument panel and the second instrument panel occupies the remaining surface of the clustered instrument panel; displaying first information in the first instrument panel; displaying second information in the second instrument panel; receiving an instruction to swap the position of the first instrument panel and the second instrument panel; and executing the instruction to display the second instrument panel in the innermost area of the clustered instrument panel and to display the first instrument panel such that the first instrument panel is to occupy the remaining surface of the clustered instrument panel.