Means of transportation, user interace and method for defining a tile on a display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10782845-B2
Application number	US-201515538845-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2015
Priority date	Jan 2, 2015
Publication date	Sep 22, 2020
Grant date	Sep 22, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a transportation vehicle, a user interface, and a method for defining a tile on a displace device of a user interface. The method may include the following steps: displaying a tile grid comprising a number of cells on the display device in an operating mode; detecting a user gesture, in particular a swiping gesture, in contact with a touch-sensitive surface in relation to at least one cell; and, in response, defining a tile on the positions of those cells that have been dialed by the user gesture in a predefined manner.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for enabling user-defining of one or more tiles on a display device of a transportation vehicle user interface system, the method comprising:
displaying, on the display device, a tile grid comprising a plurality of cells in an operator control mode;
receiving a user's swiping gesture engaged with a touch-sensitive surface of the display device along a swipe path, wherein the swipe path is an outlining of at least one cell of the plurality of cells; and
defining a target tile on the display device at positions of the at least one cell according to the outlining in response to the outlining of the at least one cell, and automatically displaying a previously undisplayed selection menu for defining content to be displayed in the target tile, in response to the outlining of the at least one cell.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tile is defined at positions of the at least one cell captured within a maximum width extent and a maximum height extent of the outlining.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting a tapping gesture relating to a defined tile; and
in response thereto, displaying the selection menu for defining content to be displayed in the defined tile.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
detecting a selection gesture relating to an entry in the selection menu of the defined tile; and
in response thereto assigning to the defined tile content which is assigned to the entry in the selection menu.

5. The method claim 4 , wherein the selection gesture comprises one of:
a tapping gesture on the entry; and
a swiping gesture relating to the entry with a target of the defined tile.

6. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
displaying a selection submenu having entries which are thematically assigned to the entry in the selection menu, and in response to a selection gesture relating to an entry in the selection submenu, assigning to the tile content which is assigned to the selection submenu entry.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting a gesture having a minimum contact duration, on the defined target tile;
detecting a swiping gesture relating to the defined target tile; and
defining a new tile as a function of positions of cells which have a predetermined relationship with a target position of the swiping gesture.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the predetermined relationship is defined within a distance of the target position from the cells which is less than half of an edge length or width of a cell.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the predetermined relationship includes at least one of the new tile is assigned to positions of cells which correspond with the defined target tile, shifted to the target position of the swiping gesture, and at least partially have the defined target tile superimposed on them.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the tile grid in response to at least one of:
detecting a swiping gesture with a starting position on an already defined tile; and
a user approaching the display device.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the target tile is separated from one or more adjacent tiles by strips of a background.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cells of the tile grid are not delimited by lines.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the tile grid includes detecting approach of a user, and in response to detection of approach, revealing the tile grid.

14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, in response to a user's swiping gesture of the target tile onto a position of previously unoccupied cells, changing a size of the target tile such that each of the previously unoccupied cells are selected as common position of the target tile.

15. A user interface system of a transportation vehicle comprising:
a display device including a touch sensitive surface;
a detection unit; and
an evaluation unit,
wherein the user interface system is configured to carry out a method including:
displaying, by the display device, a tile grid comprising a plurality of cells in an operator control mode,
detecting a user's swiping gesture engaged with the touch-sensitive surface along a swipe path, wherein the swipe path is an outlining of at least one cell of the plurality of cells; and
defining a target tile at positions of the at least one cell according to the outlining, in response to the outlining, and automatically displaying a previously undisplayed selection menu for defining content to be displayed in the target tile, in response to the outlining.

16. The user interface system of claim 15 , wherein the user interface system is further configured to carry out a method in response to a user's swiping gesture of the target tile onto a position of previously unoccupied cells, changing a size of the target tile such that each of the previously unoccupied cells are selected as common position of the target tile.

17. A computer program product comprising instructions which, when executed on an evaluation unit of a user interface system of a transportation vehicle including a display device having a touch-sensitive surface, a detection unit, and the evaluation unit, cause the evaluation unit to carry out the steps of a method comprising:
displaying, on the display device, a tile grid comprising a plurality of cells in an operator control mode,
detecting a user's swiping gesture engaged with the touch-sensitive surface along a swipe path, wherein the swipe path is an outlining of at least one cell; and
defining a target tile at positions of the at least one cell according to the outlining, in response to the outlining, and automatically displaying a previously undisplayed selection menu for defining content to be displayed in the target tile, in response to the outlining.

18. The computer program product of claim 17 , the method further comprising in response to a user's swiping gesture of the target tile onto a position of previously unoccupied cells, changing a size of the target tile such that each of the previously unoccupied cells are selected as common position of the target tile.

19. A transportation vehicle comprising:
a user interface system including a display device having a touch-sensitive surface, a detection unit, and an evaluation unit,
wherein the user interface system is configured to display a tile grid comprising a plurality of cells on the display device in an operator control mode, detect a user's swiping gesture engaged with the touch-sensitive surface along a swipe path, where the swipe path is an outlining of at least one cell, and to define a target tile at positions of the at least one cell according to the outlining, in response to the outlining, and automatically displaying a previously undisplayed selection menu for defining content to be displayed in the target tile, in response to the outlining.

20. The transportation vehicle of claim 19 , wherein the user interface system is configured to, in response to a user's swiping gesture of the target tile onto a position of previously unoccupied cells, change a size of the target tile such that each of the previously unoccupied cells are selected as common position of the target tile.

Assignees

• Volkswagen Ag

Inventors

• Wild Holger

Classifications

• B60K35/22

  Display screens · CPC title

• B60K35/26

  using acoustic output · CPC title

• B60K35/10

  Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title