Method of and device for selection or entry of a destination in a motor vehicle system
First Claim
1. A method of selection or entry of a destination in a motor vehicle navigation system including manual input means having horizontal and vertical components, an optical display, a speech output, and computer means, said method comprising the steps of selecting a letter position with the horizontal component;
- running through a letter alphabet with the vertical component until a letter corresponding to a letter determining a destination name appears at the selected letter position;
indicating the selecting and running steps on the optical display;
effecting acoustic acknowledgement of the letter to be entered; and
effecting one of selection of the destination and entry of the destination by computer means by effecting the horizontal and vertical components; and
determining a subset of letters that can follow a predetermined letter and running only through said subset of letters in a letter position immediately following a position of the predetermined letter.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method of and device for selection or entry of a destination in a motor vehicle navigation system. The selection of a destination designation from a stored destination list or the entry of the destination designation is effected by selecting letter positions of the destination designation in a stepwise manner with a first component of a manual input element, and by running the alphabet through, per letter position, at a speed or step size which can be varied as desired until the desired letter is reached with a second component of a manual input element. The acknowledgement of the selected letters or numbers is effected by means of an optical display and, in particular, acoustically by means of vocal output.
-
Citations
9 Claims
-
1. A method of selection or entry of a destination in a motor vehicle navigation system including manual input means having horizontal and vertical components, an optical display, a speech output, and computer means, said method comprising the steps of selecting a letter position with the horizontal component;
- running through a letter alphabet with the vertical component until a letter corresponding to a letter determining a destination name appears at the selected letter position;
indicating the selecting and running steps on the optical display;
effecting acoustic acknowledgement of the letter to be entered; and
effecting one of selection of the destination and entry of the destination by computer means by effecting the horizontal and vertical components; and
determining a subset of letters that can follow a predetermined letter and running only through said subset of letters in a letter position immediately following a position of the predetermined letter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- running through a letter alphabet with the vertical component until a letter corresponding to a letter determining a destination name appears at the selected letter position;
Specification