Method and display device for transitioning display information

• US 9,802,484 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2010
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Dehmann, Rainer, Kuhn, Mathias, Hauschild, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, ANH TUAN V
• Application Number:
  US13/501,060
• Publication Number:
  US 20120293534A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,605 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1531 Three-dimensional displays
• 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: B60K 35/211 producing three-dimensional [3D] effects, e.g. stereoscopic images
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/00 Geometric image transformations in the plane of the image

Abstract

A method for displaying information, in which at least one first graphical object is graphically displayed on a display area, and, in the case of a change to a second graphical object, a control device generates graphic data that control the display area in a manner that causes the first object to disappear and the second object to be faded in. In the case of a change to the second object, the control device generates graphic data that control the display area such that, in the perspective representation on the display area, the first graphical object is swiveled out about a first axis disposed outside of the display area; and, in the perspective representation on the display area, the second graphical object is swiveled in about a second axis disposed outside of the display area, until it is fully displayed.

Claims

1. A method for displaying information in a display area in a motor vehicle, comprising:

graphically displaying at least one first graphical object on the display area; and

generating, by a control device, based on a change to a second graphical object, graphic data that controls the display area to cause the first graphical object to disappear and the second graphical object to be faded in, such that, in a perspective representation on the display area, the first graphical object is swiveled out about a first axis disposed apart from and outside of the display area, and, in the perspective representation on the display area, the second graphical object is swiveled in about a second axis disposed apart from and outside of the display area, until the second graphical object is fully displayed, wherein the first axis and the second axis coincide;

wherein a duration of the swiveling in and/or of the swiveling out is ascertained as a function of the velocity of the motor vehicle, such that the duration of the swiveling in and/or of the swiveling out is longer at greater velocities of the motor vehicle and shorter at lesser velocities of the motor vehicle.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first axis and/or the second axis is oriented in parallel to one side of the display area.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first graphical object and the second graphical object swivel in a same direction of rotation.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one portion of the second graphical object is displayed only when the first graphical object is no longer displayed.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein sharpness of the display content changes within the first graphical object and/or the second graphical object during swiveling.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the sharpness of the display content decreases within the first graphical object upon swiveling out;

and the sharpness of the display content increases within the second graphical object upon swiveling in.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a time interval for displaying the object is assigned to the first graphical object, and, once the time interval has elapsed, the display on the display area automatically changes to the second graphical object.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the change from the first graphical object to the second graphical object is initiated by a user.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control device generates graphic data for successive intermediate images for representing the swiveling out of the first graphical object and/or the swiveling in of the second graphical object, the swiveling being subdivided into a first phase in which pixels of the graphical object are moved at an accelerated rate, and into a second phase in which the pixels of the graphical object are moved at a decelerated rate.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein a duration of the first phase and/or the second phase is ascertained as a function of the velocity of the motor vehicle.

11. A display device for displaying information in a display area in a motor vehicle, comprising:

the display area adapted to graphically represent graphical objects; and

a control device adapted to generate, based on a change from a first graphical object to a second graphical object, graphic data that controls the display area to cause the first graphical object to disappear and the second graphical object to be faded in, such that, in a perspective representation on the display area, the first graphical object is swiveled out about a first axis disposed apart from and outside of the display area, and, in the perspective representation on the display area, the second graphical object is swiveled in about a second axis disposed apart from and outside of the display area, until the second graphical object is fully displayed, wherein the first axis and the second axis coincide;

wherein a duration of the swiveling in and/or of the swiveling out is ascertained as a function of the velocity of the motor vehicle, such that the duration of the swiveling in and/or of the swiveling out is longer for greater velocities of the motor vehicle and shorter for lesser velocities of the motor vehicle.

12. The display device according to claim 11, further comprising an input device adapted to initiate the change from the first graphical object to the second graphical object in response to an input into the input device.