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Method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface in a vehicle

  • US 10,185,485 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2014
  • Issued: 01/22/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing a graphical user interface in a transportation vehicle, the method comprising:

  • displaying graphical objects completely on a display surface in a first operating mode of a display apparatus, wherein the graphical objects are divided into a first set of graphical objects and a second set of graphical objects;

    reducing the display surface in a second operating mode of the display apparatus, wherein the display surface is divided into a viewable part and a non-viewable part, so that, following a change from the first operating mode to the second operating mode, the graphical objects of the first set are displayed completely on the viewable part of the display surface and the graphical objects of the second set are at least partially not displayed on the viewable part of the display surface, and wherein a detection area is formed in front of the viewable and/or the non-viewable part of the display surface;

    detecting an operating action of a user in the second operating mode; and

    arranging the graphical objects of the second set on the display surface in response to detection of the operating action during the second operating mode so that at least one of the graphical objects of the second set is displayed completely on the viewable part of the display surface and at least one of the graphical objects of the first set is at least partially hidden from view by a passenger compartment cover of the transportation vehicle, wherein the operating action is a swiping gesture of a user which can be performed by an actuation element, a first graphical object of the first set in a first position on the display surface is determined, the swiping gesture beginning at said object, a trajectory of the actuation element is detected in the detection area, a second graphical object of the second set in a second position on the display surface is determined, said object being closest to an end point of the trajectory, wherein the end point of the trajectory is the point at which the actuation element leaves the detection area, and when the actuation element has left the detection area, the second graphical object is displayed at the first position and the first graphical object is displayed at the second position.

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