Patent ID: 11919463
Assignee: IN MOTION MOBILITY LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. A vehicle comprising:
a controller area network (CAN) bus;
a local interconnect network (LIN) bus; and
a control system for controlling a plurality of functions of the vehicle, the control system comprising:
a touch screen configured to receive a user input, the touch screen physically mounted directly on one side of a steering wheel of the vehicle;
a CAN microcontroller configured to communicate with the CAN bus of the vehicle;
a LIN controller configured to communicate with the LIN bus of the vehicle; and
an embedded computer assembly (ECA) comprising processing circuitry configured to:
obtain the user input from the touch screen; and
provide a control signal to the CAN bus and the LIN bus via the CAN microcontroller and the LIN controller to perform a requested vehicle function according to the user input by suppressing communications on the CAN bus and the LIN bus associated with an input device installed or designed by a manufacturer of the vehicle and generating new communications on the CAN bus and the LIN bus;

wherein the touch screen and the ECA are retrofit on the vehicle and the ECA is configured to suppress the communications on the CAN bus and the LIN bus from the input device and generate the new communications on the CAN bus and the LIN bus such that the control system provides control, via the touch screen, of one or more vehicle functions that are not controllable via touch screen by the input device.