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User interface and method for interactively selecting a display

US10739942B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Axel Platz · Hersbruck, DE
Sonja Sander · Hersbruck, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 27, 2016
Grant date	Aug 11, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 23, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T3/60
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A user interface, computer program, computer readable media and method arranges displays on a lateral surface of a cylinder, which displays can be easily viewed and selected by rotation about the axis of rotation of the cylinder. A user operates an input element for this purpose. A drive rotates the lateral surface containing the displays according to the user's inputs. In addition to this exemplary embodiment of a mechanical arrangement, a user interface is also proposed which visualizes the displays and the lateral surface only virtually as graphical objects on a graphical user interface. The rotation of the displays is now output as an animation on the graphical user interface. This affords the advantage that a visualization is provided which images a mental model of the user on the graphical user interface and simultaneously increases the user's attention by means of the animation.

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