Infotainment System

• US 20110246887A1
• Filed: 12/09/2009
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Weichenrieder, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US13/139,466
• Publication Number:
  US 20110246887A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

An infotainment system includes a display device, a freely accessible data transfer interface for a user of the infotainment system, a computing unit, a first memory and a user interface with an input unit and a graphical operating interface. The infotainment system is adapted to store predefined user configuration data in the first memory. The user configuration data is representative for a graphical display of the graphical operating interface by the control unit. The infotainment system is also adapted to interpret the predefined user configuration data such that the graphical operating interface represented by the user configuration data can be displayed using the display device and/or such that the manual operation of the user interface represented by the user configuration data can be predefined using the input unit.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. An infotainment system comprising:

a display device;

a data transmission interface that is freely accessible to a user of the infotainment system;

a computation unit;

a first memory; and

a user interface having at least an associated input unit and an associated graphical user interface, wherein the infotainment system is configured to;

store prescribed user configuration data provided by the data transmission interface in the first memory, the user configuration data is representative of at least one of a graphical representation of the graphical user interface and of handling of the user interface by the at least one operator control unit, and

interpret the prescribed user configuration data by the computation unit such that the graphical user interface represented by the user configuration data is presented by one of the display device and the handling of the user interface, as represented by the user configuration data by the at least one input unit.

6. The infotainment system as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:

a second memory that stores manufacturer configuration data produced and stored during manufacture of the infotainment system,

wherein the manufacturer configuration data is representative of one of the graphical representation of the graphical user interface and of handling of the user interface, and

wherein the infotainment system is designed to access the second memory and to interpret the manufacturer configuration data if the user configuration data is erroneous.

7. The infotainment system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the second memory is configured to be accessed only by a separate data transmission interface that is inaccessible to the user.

8. The infotainment system as claimed in claim 6, configured to take the user and the manufacturer configuration data as a basis for prescribing one of the graphical representation of the graphical user interface and the handling of the user interface.

9. The infotainment system as claimed in claim 7, configured to take the user and the manufacturer configuration data as a basis for prescribing one of the graphical representation of the graphical user interface and the handling of the user interface.

10. A method for configuring a user interface of an infotainment system using a program executed by a data processing installation that allows user configuration data to be configured, comprising:

creating a representation of the graphical user interface;

creating a representation of a handling of the user interface;

producing the user configuration based at least in part on the representation of the graphical user interface and the representation of a handling of the user interface; and

storing the user configuration in a memory.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising prescribing a menu presentation of the graphical user interface with which operator control elements are associated.