Electronic control and display unit

• US 20140053094A1
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Original Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Inventors: GREVINGA, MARKUS, LOSCH, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US13/962,308
• Publication Number:
  US 20140053094A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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 comprises a display and at least one control unit. The display has a plurality of visualization regions and icons representing settings of parameters are assigned to the display in one or more visualization regions. A particular icon represents a parameter of a working machine. Activating the particular icon causes at least one virtual adjusting element to be shown on the display. The virtual adjusting element can be edited in order to change the parameter of the working machine.

Claims

1. An electronic control and display unit, comprising

at least one display;

and

at least one control unit;

wherein the display has a plurality of visualization regions and icons representing parameter settings are assigned to one or more of the visualization regions,

wherein a particular icon (57) represents a parameter (64) of a working machine (1) and activating the icon (57) results in at least one virtual adjusting element (65) being shown on the display (18); and

wherein a virtual adjusting element (69) is editable to change the parameter (64) of the working machine (1).

2. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the at least one virtual adjusting element (65) is a virtual rotary switch (69) or a virtual sliding switch (66) or both.

3. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 2, wherein the virtual rotary switch (69) is made editable by dragging a marker (70) in a circular motion, wherein the virtual sliding switch (66) is made editable by dragging a marker (70) in a linear motion, and wherein the marker (70) is activated via the touchscreen function of a display (18) or via control elements (39) configured as rotate-and-press switches (40)

4. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 3, wherein editing buttons (67, 68) in the display (18) for editing the particular parameter are assigned to the virtual sliding switch (66) or the virtual rotary switch (69), wherein editing is carried out by touching the editing button (67, 68) on a display (18) or via control elements (39) configured as rotate-and-press switches (40).

5. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 2, wherein a virtual sliding switch (65, 66), a virtual rotary switch (65, 69) and editing buttons (65, 67, 68), which all visualize the same parameter (65), are assigned to one or more of the visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) of the display (18), wherein the parameter (64) is changed by activating one of these virtual adjusting elements (65) and wherein changing at least one of these adjusting elements (65) causes the further adjusting elements (65) to change as well.

6. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the working machine is designed as an agricultural working machine (1) and the editable parameters (64) include any of machine parameters, quality parameters of the agricultural working machine (1), quality parameters of the crop and crop parameters.

7. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein an available value range (71) of the parameter (64) is visualized in an annular region (72) in the virtual rotary switch (69) and wherein the marker (70) is moved in this annular region (72).

8. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 7, wherein the annular region (72) has sections (73a-c) of different colors and the color of the particular section (73a-c) is a measure of the quality of the visualized parameter (64).

9. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein pop-up windows (53) are assigned to one or more of the visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) of the display, wherein each pop-up window (53) has one or more icons (57) that represent a parameter (64) and wherein one or more of the icons (57) is changed using the editing elements (65).

10. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 9, wherein a plurality of further pop-up windows (63) can be activated, wherein each of the further activated pop-up windows (63) is positioned over the previously activated pop-up window (63) by being dragged horizontally (52) into the visualization region of the display (18).

11. The electronic control and display unit according to claim 1, wherein the display (18) is operated in navigation levels (19, 20), wherein the display (18) is subdivided into visualization regions (32, 33, 37, 38, 46, 47) within a navigation level (19, 20), and wherein at least a portion of the visualization regions is movable relative to one another and wherein movability of the visualization regions relative to one another includes horizontal or vertical scrolling (34, 35) of the particular visualization region or both.