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Method and device for displaying driver information on a common driver information display

  • US 6,597,367 B2
  • Filed: 12/29/2000
  • Issued: 07/22/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing a graphic display of driver information in a motor vehicle, the driver information originating from a plurality of individual devices linked to each other via a bus, and the driver information being depicted as a foreground on a background of a common driver information display including a graphical user interface, the method comprising the steps of:

  • performing a plurality of preselected calculating operations of a predetermined calculation regime in an external image processing device;

    storing a partial graphic bitmap corresponding to the driver information to be depicted and including associated α

    -channels and corresponding results of the plurality of preselected calculating operations conducted in advance in a corresponding one of the plurality of individual devices;

    transmitting the partial graphic bitmap required in a specific case along with corresponding ones of the associated α

    -channels from the plurality of individual devices via the bus to the common driver information display;

    combining the partial graphic bitmap required in the specific case and the background of the graphical user interface of the common driver information display, taking into account the corresponding associated α

    -channels according to the predetermined calculating regime; and

    depicting a total result on the graphical user interface of the common driver information display.

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