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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2019
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jia Wei Tam, Seattle, WA (US);
Lauren Wunderlich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zhongxia Yan, Davis, CA (US);
Gyeong Sik Choi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Heng Xiong, Bothell, CA (US);
Bryan Jeffery Moles, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Francisco Manuel Galanes, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sabrina Silk Billinghurst, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yuanjiao Shen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Patrick Brady, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A device is described that, while operating in an automobile configuration, causes a vehicle system of an automobile to display part of an automobile graphical user interface (GUI) while locally displaying a different part of the automobile GUI. Responsive to receiving user input for switching to a non-automobile GUI that permits access to at least some features of the device that are restricted by the automobile GUI, the device replaces the part of the automobile GUI that is locally displayed on the device with the non-automobile GUI, all while continuing to cause the vehicle system to display its part of the automobile GUI. The device accesses the at least some features of the device and responsive to receiving user input for switching back to the automobile GUI, the device replaces the non-automobile GUI with the part of the automobile GUI that was previously displayed by the device.