Vehicle-mounted information device

• US 10,521,079 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2015
• Issued: 12/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Nakashima, Taro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phuong H
• Application Number:
  US15/115,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20170010766A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,777 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1464 3D-gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A vehicle-mounted information device that does not create a cause of an erroneous operation is provided. In a vehicle-mounted information device capable of editing objects 11 to 18 displayed on a touch panel 121, an edit mode of displaying a mark 20 (20a) indicating a direction in which the object 11 is movable is provided, and by a touch operation onto the mark 20 (20a), the selected object 11 and an object 12 of interest which is located in the direction indicated by the mark 20 (20a) are interchanged.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted information device comprising:

a CPU including a control section; and

a display device provided with a touch panel and displaying a plurality of objects as a matrix,

wherein a shift instruction to shift to an edit mode capable of editing the plurality of objects displayed as the matrix on the display device is provided via the touch panel,

when one object is selected in an initial state in the edit mode or is selected by a user as a selected object from among the objects displayed as the matrix, and when an interchange target object, which includes one or a group of the objects of interest having a display form substantially equal to the selected object among the plurality of objects displayed as the matrix and is displayed adjacently to at least one of right side, left side, upper side, and lower side of the selected object, exists, the control section displays a mark indicating a direction in which the interchange target object exists, and the mark is displayed in a space between the selected object and the interchange target object and on a perimeter of the selected object at least one of at a left side of, a right side of, an upper side of and a lower side of the selected object, the mark as a whole is displayed without overlapping with the selected object and the interchange target object,

when the interchange target object does not exist, the control section does not display the mark, the control section does not display the mark against the object displayed as the matrix other than the selected object,

the display form substantially equal to the selected object includes one of;

a first display form in which a width and a height of one object of interest are equal to a width and a height of the selected object;

a second display form in which each of the entire group of the objects of interest differs in size from the selected object, and a height H of a display region of the entire group of the objects of interest is equal to a height of a display region of the selected object, and widths of individual display regions of the group of the objects of interest are within a width W of a display region of a largest object of interest; and

a third display form in which each of the entire group of the objects of interest differs in size from the selected object, a width W of the display region of the entire group of the objects of interest is equal to a width of the display region of the selected object, and heights of the individual display regions of the group of the objects of interest are within a height H of the display region of the largest object of interest,

when the control section displays the selected object and the interchange target object in one of the first display form, the second display form, and the third display form on the display device, and the touch panel detects a touch operation of the mark by the user in the edit mode, the control section interchanges a position of the selected object and a position of the interchange target object which is located in the direction indicated by the mark.

2. The vehicle-mounted information device according to claim 1,

wherein by keeping the mark pressed down, the one or group of the objects of interest that can be interchanged is or are displayed to be recognizable.

3. The vehicle-mounted information device according to claim 1,

wherein a delete section is displayed in the selected object.

4. The vehicle-mounted information device according to claim 1,

wherein an addition section is displayed in the selected object.

5. The vehicle-mounted information device according to claim 1, wherein in the edit mode, when selecting the selected object, a perimeter frame is displayed surrounding a periphery of the selected object, and other than the selected object, the perimeter frame is not displayed in the objects displayed as the matrix,

the mark is displayed in a space between the perimeter frame of the selected object and the interchange target object, and is displayed at least one of right side, left side, upper side, and lower side of the perimeter frame of the selected object.