Method for controlling a display device in a motor vehicle, and display device

US8370058B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Christoph Waeller · Braunschweig, DE
• Andreas Ebert · Braunschweig, DE
• Jens Fliegner · Wahrenholz, DE
• Yongmei Wu · Wolfsburg, DE
• Heino Wengelik · Wolfsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 26, 2006
• Grant date: Feb 5, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B29/006
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method for controlling a display device in a motor vehicle, the display device displays a geographic map having elements which are assigned geographic positions and which are displayed on the displayed map at the geographic positions they are assigned. The relevance of the elements displayable on the map for the user is evaluated and an automatic decision is made as a function of the result of the evaluation as to which elements are displayed at the geographic positions they are assigned. A display device in a motor vehicle includes a control device, a display connected to the control device, a memory or a plurality of memories for storing data for displaying a geographic map and for storing elements that are assigned geographic positions and which are displayable on the displayed map at the geographic positions they are assigned. The display device includes a decision processor, which is connected to the control device, by which the relevance of the elements displayable on the map is able to be evaluated, and an automatic decision is able to be made as a function of the result of the evaluation as to which elements will be displayed at their assigned geographic positions.