Different display types in a system-controlled, context-dependent information display

• US 6,738,040 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2001
• Issued: 05/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Jahn, Dirk, Kiesel, Bruno, Wohlgemuth, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisen, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US09/934,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20020089544A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/1--, 345/2--, 345/4-8, 345/629-637
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32014 Augmented reality assists operator in maintenance, repair, programming, assembly, use of head mounted display with 2-D 3-D display and voice feedback, voice and gesture command
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00

Abstract

The invention relates to a system and a method for combined use of different types of display with system-controlled, context-dependent information display, having a mobile data processing apparatus and having a plurality of interaction devices which are operated in parallel by the mobile data processing apparatus for display and/or input, and having a higher-level system for monitoring the interaction devices such that at least one respectively suitable output display type is selected as a function of the input parameters.

Claims

1. A method for structuring, preparing and outputting information in which a plurality of interaction devices are used to output information to a user and to detect inputs by the user wherein the interaction devices are controlled and coupled by means of an interaction monitoring system in a computer unit carried on the body of the user, comprising the steps of evaluating a context defined by input parameters of a specific work situation for the user, determining which of the interaction devices are to be used to output information, and selecting the information to be output as a function of the defined context, and further comprising utilizing the interaction monitoring system to prioritize at least one interaction device and outputting a result of the prioritization of the user.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information is in the form of static and dynamic information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the selection of interaction devices is a function of inputs by the user.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of prioritizing the information to be output with said interaction devices and providing said prioritized information to the user via said interaction devices.

5. A system for structuring, preparing and outputting information comprising

a plurality of interaction devices for outputting information to a user and for detecting inputs from the user, and

a computer unit carried on the body of the user, said computer including

an interaction monitoring system for controlling and coupling said interaction devices to evaluate a context, defined by input parameters, of a specific work situation for the user, and for determining, as a function of the specific context, the information to be output and further wherein the interaction monitoring system comprises evaluation means for prioritization of one or more interaction devices and wherein the interaction devices include output means for outputting a result of the prioritization to the user.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein at least one of said interaction devices is in the form of a head mounted display with means for detecting inputs by the user.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein the information is in the form of static and dynamic information.

8. The system as claimed according to claim 5, wherein the interaction monitoring system controls the activation and deactivation of interaction devices as a function of inputs by the user.