Patent ID: 8994522
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
1. A method for presenting a display screen for a graphical human machine interface (HMI) for a moving vehicle based on likelihood to exceed eye glance guidelines, wherein the graphical HMI is configured, for a task requiring a user to view the graphical HMI, with a conventional HMI screen and an alternative HMI screen, the method comprising: receiving a user input corresponding to the task requiring the user to view the graphical HMI; determining a user action required for the task, determining a time value associated with performing the user action required for the task, the time value being taken from the group consisting of: determining whether the task would violate an eye glance guideline for the moving vehicle by comparing an eye glance guideline time value to the time value associated with performing the user action; and conditionally presenting only one of the conventional and the alternative HMI screens by presenting the conventional HMI screen only if the task would not violate the eye glance guideline and otherwise presenting the alternative HMI screen.