Electronic control and display unit

• US 20140053092A1
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Original Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Inventors: Grevinga, Markus, Losch, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/962,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20140053092A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 41/127 Control or measuring arrangements specially adapted for combines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop

Abstract

An electronic control and display unit includes a display and at least one control unit. The display has a set of visualization regions and can be operated in navigation levels. The display is subdivided into visualization regions within a navigation level and at least a portion of the visualization regions are movable relative to others of the visualization regions.

Claims

1. An electronic control and display unit, comprising:

at least one display (18); and

at least one control unit;

wherein the display has a plurality of visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) within and is operated in navigation levels (19, 20),

wherein the display (18) is subdivided into the visualization regions within a navigation level (19, 20), and wherein at least a portion of the visualization regions are movable relative to others of the visualization regions.

2. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the movability of the visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) relative to the others of the visualization regions comprises horizontal and/or vertical scrolling (34, 35) of particular visualization regions.

3. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 2, wherein the display (18) comprises, in a first navigation level (19), at least one “

working phase”

visualization region (32) and one “

tool menu”

visualization region (33) and wherein the “

working phase”

visualization region (32) are scrolled horizontally (34) and the “

tool menu”

visualization region (33) are scrolled vertically (35).

4. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 3, wherein a display field (36) becomes visible during scrolling (34) of the “

working phase”

visualization region (32) that displays all the selectable working phases (27;

42-45) and wherein a particular working phase that is activated (27;

42-45) is visualized in an emphasized manner.

5. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 3, wherein the “

working phase”

visualization region (32) comprises the working phases “

preparation”

(42), “

road travel”

(43), “

field travel”

(44), and “

headland”

(45), and wherein the visualization region (32) of each working phase (42-45) comprises a “

working phase content”

visualization region (48) and at least one “

tool view”

visualization region (47).

6. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 3, wherein at least the contents of the “

working phase content”

(46) and “

tool view”

(47) visualization regions are coupled to one another such that selecting specific content in the “

working phase content”

visualization region (46) results in the automatic adaptation of the content of the “

tool view”

visualization region (47) and, vice versa, that selecting specific content in the “

tool view”

visualization region (47) results in an automatic adaptation of the content of the “

working phase content”

visualization region (46).

7. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 2, wherein the display (18) comprises, in a second navigation level (20), at least one “

tool content”

visualization region (37), a “

tool menu”

visualization region (33), and a “

tool submenu”

visualization region (38), and wherein all of the visualization regions (33, 37, 38) are scrolled vertically (35).

8. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the display (18) is a touchscreen monitor (21) and the visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) are movable in a particular navigation level (19, 20) by touching the touchscreen monitor (21) or by activating control elements (39) assigned to the display (18) or both.

9. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 8, wherein a display region (28) visualized in all navigation levels (19, 20) is assigned to the display (18) and comprises at least one “

favorites”

display region (29) and a “

hotkey”

display region (30), and wherein system-relevant information is permanently visualized in the “

favorites”

display region (29) and navigation level-relevant information is visualized in the “

hotkey”

display region (30) by activating this display region (30).

10. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 9, wherein activation of the “

hotkey”

display region (30) opens a “

content”

pop-up window (72), which at least partially overlaps the “

working phase”

visualization region (32), and wherein content of the “

content”

pop-up window (72) is visualized and then edited by vertical scrolling (35) or actuating control elements (39).

11. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein a header menu bar (25), which is visualized in all navigation levels (19, 20), is assigned to the display (18), and wherein activation of the header menu bar results in the immediate activation of the “

working phases”

visualization region (32).

12. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein at least a portion of available visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) of each navigation level (19, 20) of the display (18) are coupled to one another such that editing one visualization region results in the automatic adaptation of the content of the corresponding visualization regions.

13. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 12, wherein touching an activated visualization region (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) outside of an icon (57) that describes the visualization region causes an activated selection window (70) or pop-up window (50, 63, 78) or both to close, causes implemented changes to be reset or both.

14. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein configuration of the display (18) is edited in at least one of the available navigation levels (19, 20).

15. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 14, wherein “

working phase content”

(46) and “

tool view”

(47) visualization regions in the first navigation level (19) comprise a plurality of configurable subregions (46a,b;

47a-c), and wherein each of the subregions (46a, b;

47a-c) can be edited such that the content of a tool (50) stored in a “

tool menu”

visualization region (33) can be dragged into the particular subregion (46a, b;

47a-c).

16. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 15, wherein the selected tool (50) has a plurality of editing options (54, 55), which can be selected by opening a “

content”

pop-up window (53), which at least partially overlaps the display (18), and selecting the editing options therein.

17. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 16, wherein the “

content”

pop-up window (53) is opened and closed by moving the “

content”

pop-up window (53) horizontally into and out of the display (18), while vertical scrolling (35) is used to navigate between selectable editing options (54, 55).

18. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein after a working phase (27) has been activated in a “

working phase”

visualization region (32), a plurality of icons (57) that describe the working phase (27) is displayed, and wherein navigation within this working phase (27) and/or switching from the first navigation level (19) to the second navigation level (20) is achieved at least by activating an icon (57).

19. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 18, wherein activating an icon (57) opens a “

content”

pop-up window (53), which at least partially overlaps the display (18), and the content of the “

content”

pop-up window (53) is visualized and then edited at least by vertical scrolling (35).

20. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 19, wherein the “

content”

pop-up window (53), which overlaps at least partially, is visualized by being moved horizontally (52) into the visualization region of the display (18).

21. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 20, wherein the inserted “

content”

pop-up window (53) comprises one or more icons (57) and activating one of the icons (57) positions at least one further “

content”

pop-up window (63) over the previously visualized “

content”

pop-up window (53), and wherein the content of the “

content”

pop-up window (63) is visualized and then edited at least by vertical scrolling (35).

22. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 21, wherein a plurality of further “

content”

pop-up windows (63) can be activated subsequently, and wherein each of the subsequently activated “

content”

pop-up windows (63) is positioned over the previously activated “

content”

pop-up window (63) by being dragged horizontally (52) into the visualization region of the display (18).

23. The electronic control and display unit according claim 18, wherein an icon (57) represents a parameter (64) of a working machine (1) and activating the icon (57) results in at least one virtual rotary switch (69) being shown on the display (18), and wherein the virtual rotary switch (69) is edited in order to change the parameter (64) of the working machine (1).

24. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 23, wherein the virtual rotary switch (69) is made editable by dragging a marker (65) in a linear or circular motion, and wherein the marker (65) is activated via the touchscreen function or via control elements (39) assigned to the display (18) that include rotate-and-press switches (40).

25. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 23, wherein the working machine is an agricultural working machine (1) and the editable parameters (64) include machine parameters, quality parameters of the agricultural working machine (1), quality parameters of the crop and crop parameters.

26. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 25, wherein the “

tool menu”

visualization region (33) comprises all the tools (50) available on the agricultural working machine (1).

27. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein a “

tool menu”

visualization region (33) comprises a “

control and set-up instructions”

tool (77).

28. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the display (18) is a touchscreen monitor (21), and wherein the touchscreen monitor (21) can be zoomed in regions.

29. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the display (18) is a touchscreen monitor (21) and comprises a plurality of visualized icons (57), and wherein touching the touchscreen monitor (21) with two fingers (74) making a circular motion (75) prompts a particular icon (57) to be displayed as a mirror image while an original depiction of the visualized icon (57) is retained.

30. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the display (18) is a touchscreen monitor (21) and scrolling (34, 35) a particular visualization region (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) horizontally or vertically using two fingers (74) increases the scrolling speed.