Device for controlling a display

US6816079B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Kuenzner · Freising, DE
• Michael Herrler · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 15, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 9, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 15, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K35/22
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for controlling a display. Said device has an actuating member which can be rotated about a longitudinal axis and can be moved in the direction of said longitudinal axis whereby a point can be selected from a menu, partial menus, functional and/or functional value comprising menu structures and is represented on said screen in an optically high-lighted field. Said actuating member has an initial position and relative to said initial position can undergo an additional movement and has two additional degrees of freedom. During such additional movement of actuating member, a field is selectable from a point in the menu structure which is in a peripheral area of said screen and can, by virtue of the rotational/translational movement of the actuating member, be selected from said screen in a middle region surrounded by an edge located in a sub-field within said menu structure assigned to said field.