Motor vehicle operator control system

US8311727B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Lutz Eckstein · Stuttgart, DE
• Josef Schumann · Munich, DE
• Martin Zobl · Kaufering, DE
• Christian Knoll · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 13, 2012
• Expiry date: May 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2556/50
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A motor vehicle operating system includes a navigation system for providing road map information, a vehicle monitoring system for providing vehicle information, a display device for displaying road map information and vehicle information, an operating device for detecting an operating action and a control device. The control device is set up and coupled with the navigation system, the vehicle monitoring system, the display device and the operating device such that, in a zoom operating condition, in at least one predefined operating situation or zoom situation, particularly in the case of the adjustment of the zoom factor to a limit value. A switching-over takes place from the zoom operating condition to a monitoring operating condition by way of an additional zoom operating action.