Touch-sensitive vehicle display device

• US 9,746,951 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2015
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• 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:
  US14/922,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041671A1
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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;

a sliding operation plate attached to the body so as to be movable up and down along a surface of the display; and

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

the controller displays a setting button on the display along an outer edge of the sliding operation plate.

2. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein the setting button is displayed on the display along an upper edge of the outer edge of the sliding operation plate.

3. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein the setting button is displayed on the display along a side portion of an upper edge of the outer edge of the sliding operation plate.

4. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein the sliding operation plate includes a position detector which detects a position of the sliding operation plate on the surface of the display.

5. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 4, wherein the controller controls the information to be indicated on the display according to a signal, from the position detector, indicating the detected position of the sliding operation plate on the surface of the display.

6. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 5, wherein a display position of the setting button is movable, based on the detected position of the sliding operation plate, so as to maintain the display position of the setting button relative to the detected position of the sliding operation plate.

7. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 4, wherein the information to be indicated on the display includes first content and second content, and the controller controls each of a display position of the first content and a display position of the second content relative to the detected position of the sliding operation plate.

8. The touch-sensitive vehicle display device according to claim 1, wherein the sliding operation plate includes at least one opening section, and the controller displays, inside the at least one opening section, an indicator, and content of the indicator is based on content of the information to be indicated on the display.