Touch-sensitive vehicle display device

• US 9,201,536 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2014
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
• Original Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
• Inventors: Imai, Chihaya
• Primary Examiner(s): Khatib, Rami
• Application Number:
  US14/279,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20140350784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/111 for controlling multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/122 Instrument input devices with reconfigurable control functions, e.g. reconfigurable menus
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/126 Rotatable input devices for instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/145 Instrument input by combination of touch screen and hardware input devices
• 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 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• 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 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03548 Sliders, in which the moving part moves in a plane
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0393 Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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

A touch-sensitive vehicle display device is disclosed. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device comprises a body having a display including a touch panel on a surface thereof, whereby a screen operation is performed on the surface of the display by a touch-screen operation; an operation plate provided along the surface of the display; and a controller controlling information to be indicated on the display. The operation plate includes an opening section to indicate a switch provided to face the touch panel, and a plurality of touch-sensitive switch-confirmation portions provided on an end portion of the opening section for switch indication, and the controller controls a switch-indication portion to be inside the opening section to indicate switching in the display, and controls a plurality of selection-switches to be in the switch-indication portion to correspond to the plurality of switch-confirmation portions.

Claims

1. A touch-sensitive vehicle display device, comprising:

a body having a display including a touch panel on a surface thereof, whereby a screen operation is performed on the surface of the display by a touch-screen operation;

an operation plate provided along the surface of the display; and

a controller controlling information to be indicated on the display, wherein

the operation plate includes an opening section to indicate a switch provided to face the touch panel, and a plurality of touch-sensitive switch-confirmation portions provided on an end portion of the opening section for switch indication, and

the controller controls a switch-indication portion to be inside the opening section to indicate switching in the display, and controls a plurality of selection-switches to be shown in the switch-indication portion to correspond to the plurality of switch-confirmation portions.

2. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein

the operation plate is a sliding plate attached to the body so as to be movable along the surface of the display, and includes a position detector which detects a position of the sliding plate, and

the controller controls information to be indicated on the display according to a detected signal from the position detector.

3. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein

the opening section for switch indication is formed in a polygonal shape, and the switch-confirmation portions are included in a corner section or a side section of the opening section for switch indication.

4. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of selection switches are two selection switches indicated in the switch-indication field divided into two, and the switch-confirmation portions are included in side sections of the opening for switch-indication corresponding to the selection switches.

5. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of selection switches are four selection switches indicated in the switch-indication field divided into four, and the switch-confirmation portions are included in corner sections of the opening section for switch-indication corresponding to the selection switches.

6. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein

the selection switches are indicated in the radially divided switch-indication field of the opening section for switch-indication.

7. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein

the sliding plate is composed of an electrical conductive material, and the position detectors are provided in the sliding plate and comprise a plurality of conductive contact regions contacting the touch screen surface and moving integrally with the sliding plate.