Electronic control and display unit

• US 20140053093A1
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Original Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Inventors: Grevinga, Markus, Losch, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,798,451 B2
• 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 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An electronic control and display unit includes at least one display that has a touchscreen monitor and at least one control unit. The display has a plurality of visualization regions having visualization content. The touchscreen monitor associated with the display is subdivided into visualization regions and the visualization content of each visualization region is editable independently of the visualization content of the remaining visualization regions using available touchscreen functions.

Claims

1. An electronic control and display unit comprising

at least one display (18) with a touchscreen monitor (21), the display (18) subdivided into one or more visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) having visualization content (58), and

at least one control unit,

wherein the visualization content (58) of each of the visualization regions is editable independently of the visualization content (58) of the remaining visualization regions using touchscreen functions (59).

2. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein one or more of the visualization regions is zoomed independently of the remaining visualization regions.

3. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) comprise a plurality of visualized icons (57), and wherein touching the touchscreen monitor (21) with two fingers (62) making a circular motion (63) prompts a particular icon (57) to be displayed as a mirror image while the original depiction of the icon (57) is retained.

4. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein scrolling (34, 35, 64) the particular visualization region (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) horizontally or vertically using two fingers increases the scrolling speed therein.

5. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 4, wherein the horizontal or vertical scrolling (34, 35) using two fingers takes place independently of one another in simultaneously visualized visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47).

6. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the display (18) is operated in navigation levels (19, 20) and is subdivided into visualization regions within one of the navigation level (19, 20) such that at least a portion of the visualization regions are movable relative to one another, and wherein the movability of the visualization regions relative to one another includes horizontal or vertical scrolling (34, 35), or both of a particular visualization region.

7. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 6, 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 scrollable horizontally (34) and the “

tool menu”

visualization region (33) is scrollable vertically (35).

8. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 6, 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 scrollable vertically (35).

9. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein touching an activated visualization region outside of an icon (57) that describes the visualization region causes an activated display region (60) or pop-up window (53) or both to close, or causes implemented changes to be reset or both.

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

11. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 10, wherein the visualization regions (46, 47) available in the navigation level (19) comprise a plurality of configurable subregions (46a,b;

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

47a-c) are editable such that content of a tool (50) stored in a visualization region (33) are draggable into a subregion (46a, b;

47a-c).

12. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein when one or more pop-up windows (53) are open in the display (18), dragging an open pop-up window (53) horizontally using two fingers causes this pop-up window (53) to close.