Position input into a navigation device of a vehicle

• US 9,599,478 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2014
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Zrb-Schliefer, Arne
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Tyler J
• Application Number:
  US14/896,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20160131488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,004 Days
• Field of Search: 701/400, 701/454
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

A method for inputting position data into a navigation device of a vehicle, includes the steps: —displaying (10) positions on a graphical output unit of a mobile radio terminal device; —marking (12) one of the displayed positions on the output unit by a mark; —displaying (14) a graphical representation of a symbol for a vehicle by the output unit, to which vehicle the mobile radio terminal device makes vehicle-specific communication link data available; —shifting (16) the mark to the symbol of the vehicle or the symbol of the vehicle to the mark on the output unit; and —transmitting (18) position data identifying the marked position to the navigation device of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A method for automatically determining position data in a navigation device of a vehicle, comprising:

displaying a plurality of positions on a graphical output unit of a mobile radio end device;

marking a displayed one of the positions by a mark through manual operation on the displayed position, wherein a position data identifies the marked displayed position, with the graphical output unit operable for output and input;

displaying a graphical representation of a symbol for a vehicle via the output unit, with the vehicle providing vehicle-specific data through a first communication link to the mobile radio end device;

shifting the mark to the symbol of the vehicle or the symbol of the vehicle to the mark through a manual operation on the output unit;

establishing a second communication link to the vehicle; and

transmitting the position data, which identify the marked position, via the second communication link to the navigation device of the vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the shifting of the mark causes an automatic creation of the second communication link to the vehicle taking into account the vehicle-specific data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the symbol of the vehicle includes displaying of a vehicle identification information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of multiple-associated symbols associated with a plurality of vehicles are displayed, and responsive to a manual operation on a multiple-associated symbol a vehicle among the plurality of vehicles associated to the multiple-associated symbol whose location is the nearest to the position of the mobile radio end device is selected.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a navigation destination is used as the marked displayed position.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of displaying of a plurality of positions on the graphical output unit of the mobile radio end device includes displaying a map on the graphical output unit of the mobile radio end device, and the step of marking the position includes a marking of a position on the map and displaying a mark on the marked position on the map displayed on the output unit.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the navigation device transmits a position data identifying the geographical location of the vehicle to the mobile radio end device which displays the vehicle position via the output unit.

8. A mobile radio end device constructed to execute a method as set forth in claim 1 for automatically determining position data in a navigation device of a vehicle.