Abstract: A device and method for selecting gears in motor vehicles has an operating element selecting the respective gear, which operating element is manually pivotable or rotatable with respect to at least one axis of rotation, a haptic feedback for a user being generable by means of an actuator acting upon the operating element, and a control unit generating gear control signals and actuating the actuator depending on the position of the operating element. The device has a simpler design that can be controlled with little complexity. The operating element is designed for manual actuation by the user as well as for automatic shifting by the actuator which is actuated by the control unit.

Abstract: A device and method for selecting gears in motor vehicles has an operating element selecting the respective gear, which operating element is manually pivotable or rotatable with respect to at least one axis of rotation, a haptic feedback for a user being generable by means of an actuator acting upon the operating element, and a control unit generating gear control signals and actuating the actuator depending on the position of the operating element. The device has a simpler design that can be controlled with little complexity. The different gears are associated with different shifting thresholds of the operating element for switching to a different gear.

Abstract: A method for queue recognition by wireless vehicle to vehicle communication includes: checking a relevance for surrounding vehicles from which an ego vehicle receives messages by a comparison with relevance criteria and establishing a relevance if the relevance criteria are satisfied; selecting the speed and position values that are associated with relevant surrounding vehicles and have the speed values indicating a same direction of travel as the ego vehicle; defining a first virtual vehicle to which mean values of selected speed and position values are allocated as values for the at least one first virtual vehicle; recording a time profile of the speed and position values of the at least one first virtual vehicle; recording, as a change value, the time profile of changes in the speed and position values of the first virtual vehicle; and comparing the change value with a queue criterion.

Abstract: A method for mobile radio communication between a communication partner device and a mobile communication device includes conducting a communication, at least temporarily, via at least two different mobile radio connections in two different mobile radio networks; evaluating the reception quality of receive signals of each mobile radio connection in the mobile communication device; selecting the mobile radio connection with the best reception quality for the mobile radio communication, at least in a receiving direction; deriving different audio signals from the receive signals of the different mobile radio connections; and feeding the derived different audio signals to a delay circuit, which aligns transit time differences and/or the amplitude differences of the derived different audio signals with respect to one another.

Abstract: A method for queue recognition by wireless vehicle to vehicle communication includes: checking a relevance for surrounding vehicles from which an ego vehicle receives messages by a comparison with relevance criteria and establishing a relevance if the relevance criteria are satisfied; selecting the speed and position values that are associated with relevant surrounding vehicles and have the speed values indicating a same direction of travel as the ego vehicle; defining a first virtual vehicle to which mean values of selected speed and position values are allocated as values for the at least one first virtual vehicle; recording a time profile of the speed and position values of the at least one first virtual vehicle; recording, as a change value, the time profile of changes in the speed and position values of the first virtual vehicle; and comparing the change value with a queue criterion.

Abstract: A method for mobile radio communication between a communication partner device and a mobile communication device includes conducting a communication, at least temporarily, via at least two different mobile radio connections in two different mobile radio networks; evaluating the reception quality of receive signals of each mobile radio connection in the mobile communication device; selecting the mobile radio connection with the best reception quality for the mobile radio communication, at least in a receiving direction; deriving different audio signals from the receive signals of the different mobile radio connections; and feeding the derived different audio signals to a delay circuit, which aligns transit time differences and/or the amplitude differences of the derived different audio signals with respect to one another.

Abstract: A playback device for information data sets with a microphone, a memory arrangement, and a control unit. The audio markers are recorded with the microphone. The memory arrangement stores the audio markers in association with the respective information data sets. Furthermore, a control unit is coupled to the memory arrangement and to the microphone. In the method of operating the playback device for information data sets, the recognition of an information data set without an associated audio marker triggers the recording of an audio marker, and the newly recorded audio marker is stored in association with the relevant information data set.

Abstract: A module for reading data carriers, with a processor arrangement and a reading unit,—wherein the module is designed for incorporation in a data processing device,—wherein addressable coded data are stored on the data carrier, and—wherein the processor arrangement comprises a decoding function and is for this purpose designed for—receiving a request, characterized by an identifier, for decoded data which are stored in coded form on the data carrier,—controlling the reading unit such that the requested data, defined by a start address, are read in the coded form from the data carrier,—converting the coded data into decoded data by means of the decoding function, and—making the decoded data, characterized by the identifier, available.

Abstract: A module for reading a data carrier, with a processor arrangement and a memory arrangement, • wherein the module is designed for incorporation in a data processing device, • wherein the data carrier comprises data sequences and information on the data sequences, and the data sequences are stored in a directory structure with a root directory and at least one subdirectory, and • wherein the processor arrangement is designed for—writing the information about a first subset of the data sequences present in the root directory into a first directory of the memory arrangement, and—writing the information about at least a second subset of the data sequences present in a subdirectory of the data carrier into a second directory of the memory arrangement.

Abstract: A module for reading a data carrier, with a processor arrangement and a memory arrangement,—wherein the module is designed for incorporation in a data processing device, and—wherein the processor arrangement is designed for storing an identification information associated with the data carrier and at least a start information in the memory arrangement when the reading of the data carrier is interrupted.

Abstract: Sweetener having an improved sucrose-like taste and process for the preparation thereof and use thereof. A sweetener having improved sucrose-like taste which contains at least one synthetic sweetener or a mixture of different artificial sweeteners and at least one deoxysugar, in particular rhamnose or fucose.

Abstract: It has been found that bacteriolytic enzyme products and proteases can be added in a mixture as additive to feedstuffs, whereby an improvement in feed conversion, manifested by improved growth of the livestock, is brought about.

Abstract: A bacteria-lysing enzyme product from streptomycates can preserve poultry and fresh meat products. It effects a reduction in the organism count, by acting not only on Gram-positive organisms but also on Gram-negative bacteria such as, for example, Enterobacteriaceae.