CONFIGURATION OF HAPTIC FEEDBACK AND VISUAL PREFERENCES IN VEHICLE USER INTERFACES

摘要

Methods and systems for a driver or impairment assistive on board vehicle display, inactive control surface, and customization of a vehicle interface based on one or more of user impairment, user medical condition, user age, user physical condition, user driving characteristic and driving history are provided.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
detecting, by a microprocessor executable media controller subsystem, a change in state of a vehicle, a driver of the vehicle having a graphical user interface on board and/or in communication with a computer network controlled by computer on board the vehicle; in response, reconfiguring, by the media controller subsystem, the graphical user interface by at least one of the following actions to reduce driver distraction and/or make content displayed by the graphical user interface more visible to the driver: (i) apply screen magnification to at least part of the content displayed on the graphical user interface; (ii) render at least part of the displayed content in a larger font and/or icon size; (iii) initiate a screen reader to audibly provide and/or describe at least part of the displayed content to the driver; (iv) initiate haptic feedback to provide and/or describe at least part of the displayed content to the driver; (v) disable unnecessary animation effects from at least a part of the displayed content; (vi) remove a background image from while leaving a foreground image in at least part of the displayed content; (vii) enable a longer period for notification dialog boxes to remain open in the displayed content; (viii) enable a longer contact period of a digit of the driver to select a selectable object in the displayed content; (ix) disable automatic arrangement of windows when a mouse cursor is moved to an edge of the displayed content; (x) enable activate a window in at least part of the displayed content by hovering over the window with a mouse cursor; (xi) enable keyboard web page navigation in the displayed content; (xii) enable a high contrast between text and a background color in at least part of the displayed content; (xiii) change a color and transparency of a border of a window in at least part of the displayed content; (xiv) change a thickness of a focus rectangle around a currently selected item in a dialog box in the displayed content; (xv) change a color, size, and/or thickness of an on-screen mouse pointer in the displayed content; (xvi) change a keyboard setting displayed in the displayed content and/or in communication with the displayed content; (xvii) ignore a color, font style, font size, and/or format of a web page of the displayed content in accordance with a predetermined style sheet; (xviii) increase a size of a selectable object in at least part of the displayed content; (xix) enable blind typing on the graphical user interface; and (xx) remove one or more selectable objects from the displayed content.