Electronic control and display unit

• US 9,798,451 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Original Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Inventors: Grevinga, Markus, Losch, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Keaton, Sherrod
• Application Number:
  US13/962,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20140053093A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,538 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 41/127 Control or measuring arrangements specially adapted for combines
• 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 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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

An electronic control and display unit includes at least one display that has a touchscreen monitor and at least one control unit. The display has a plurality of visualization regions having visualization content. The touchscreen monitor associated with the display is subdivided into visualization regions and the visualization content of each visualization region is editable independently of the visualization content of the remaining visualization regions using available touchscreen functions.

Claims

1. An agricultural working machine configured with an electronic control and display unit, wherein the electronic control and display unit comprises:

a display with a touchscreen monitor, wherein display operates in at least first and second navigation levels that can be subdivided into one or more visualization regions having visualization content, and

a control unit,

wherein the visualization regions in the at least first and second navigation levels can be scrolled, and zoomed independently of the remaining visualization regions,

wherein scrolling a particular visualization region horizontally or vertically using two fingers increases the scrolling speed therein,

wherein the visualization regions comprise a plurality of configurable subregions,

wherein the visualization content comprises at least one tool,

wherein the visualization content of each of the visualization regions is editable independently of the visualization content of the remaining visualization regions, using touchscreen functions,

wherein each of the subregions are editable such that content of a tool stored in a visualization region is draggable into a subregion, which activates the subregion for editing according to a first editing option for the selected tool,

wherein operation in the first editing option can be interrupted to cause a pop-up window that presents additional alternative editing options for the tool, which are selectable, and

wherein navigation between the selectable editing options is carried out via vertical scrolling.

2. The agricultural working machine according to claim 1, wherein the visualization regions comprise a plurality of visualized icons, and wherein touching the touchscreen monitor with two fingers making a circular motion prompts a particular icon to be displayed as a mirror image while the original depiction of the icon is retained.

3. The agricultural working machine according to claim 1, wherein the horizontal or vertical scrolling using two fingers takes place independently of one another in simultaneously visualized visualization regions.

4. The agricultural working machine according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises, in the first navigation level, at least one “

working phase”

visualization region and one “

tool menu”

visualization region, and wherein the “

working phase”

visualization region is scrollable horizontally and the “

tool menu”

visualization region is scrollable vertically.

5. The agricultural working machine according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises, in the second navigation level, at least one “

tool content”

visualization region, a “

tool menu”

visualization region and a “

tool submenu”

visualization region, and wherein all of the visualization regions are scrollable vertically.

6. The agricultural working machine according to claim 1, wherein touching an activated visualization region outside of an icon that describes the visualization region causes an activated display region or pop-up window or both to close, or causes implemented changes to be reset or both.

7. The agricultural working machine according to claim 1, wherein when one or more pop-up windows are open in the display, dragging an open pop-up window horizontally using two fingers causes this pop-up window to close.