METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION AND FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20140344690A1
• Filed: 09/11/2012
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Kuhn, Mathias, Michaelis, Jan, Hahn, Alexander
• Granted Patent: US 10,452,228 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/141 Activation of instrument input devices by approaching fingers or pens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/146 Instrument input by gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1464 3D-gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/11 Graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/141 Activation by approaching fingers or pens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/146 Input by gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1464 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: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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 method and a device for displaying information and for operating an electronic device in a vehicle, wherein a plurality of list elements are displayed on a display surface with a touch-sensitive surface; a contact of a list element on the touch-sensitive surface with an actuating object or an approach of the actuating object to the list element is detected, whereupon the list element is activated, and after the activation of the list element, a first swiping movement of the actuating object on or in the vicinity of the touch-sensitive surface is detected, and with or after the detection of the first swiping movement of the actuating object, at least the list elements which are not activated are removed from the display surface and a multimedia additional element associated with the activated list element is inserted into the display surface.

Claims

1. A method for displaying information and operating an electronic device in a vehicle, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of list elements are displayed on a display area with a touch-sensitive surface;

detecting a contact of a list element on the touch-sensitive surface with an actuating object or an approach of an actuating object to the list element, whereupon the list element is activated based on the detection of the contact;

detecting, after the activation of the list element, a first swiping movement of the actuating object on or in the vicinity of the touch-sensitive surface, and

removing at least the non-activated list elements from the display area, on or after the detection of the first swiping movement of the actuating object, and inserting into the display area an additional multimedia element allocated to the activated list element.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the list element is activated when the actuating element touches the list element at least during a first period T1 or is located at the level of the list element in the immediate vicinity above the display area.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least the non-activated list elements are pushed out of removed from the display area and an additional multimedia element allocated to the activated list element is inserted into the display area when the first swiping movement of the actuating object takes place at least over a minimum distance S on the touch-sensitive surface.

4. The method as of claim 3, wherein the first swiping movement is carried out downward on the touch-sensitive surface.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional multimedia element is activated by a contact with the actuating object and by a second swiping movement of the actuating object, a further additional multimedia element allocated to the activated list element is displayed or returned to the list view.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the further additional graphical element is displayed by a second swiping movement in the direction of the first swiping movement.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the list view is returned to by a second swiping movement in the opposite direction to the first swiping movement.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the activation of the list element is displayed by a changed representation of the list element.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein additional operating elements are displayed to which buttons, activatable by the actuating elements, on the touch-sensitive surface are allocated.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the operating elements are displayed above the list elements.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the operating elements are displayed below the additional multimedia element.

14. A device for displaying information and for operating an electronic device, the device comprising:

a display device with a display area;

a touch-sensitive surface which is formed on the display area; and

a control device which is coupled to the display device and the touch-sensitive surface, on the one hand, and the electronic device to be operated, on the other hand, wherein the control device is designed for performing the method as claimed in claim 1.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the electronic device to be operated is an infotainment system of a vehicle, wherein the device may be an integrated part of the infotainment system of the vehicle or a mobile device communicating with the infotainment system of the vehicle, in particular a mobile telephone, a smartphone or PDA.

9. The method of claim 9, wherein each list element consists of a plurality of part-segments and the activation of the list element is displayed by a changed representation of at least one of the part-segments.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein one of the part-segments corresponds to a smaller representation of the additional multimedia elements allocated to the list elements, wherein the part-segments of the non-activated list elements are displayed only partially and the part-segment of the activated list element is displayed completely.