Patents by Inventor Calin Augustin Rotaru

Calin Augustin Rotaru has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Operating system and method for displaying an operating area
    Patent number: 9739995
    Abstract: An operating system for a motor vehicle includes: a display device for displaying an operating area, and an operating unit which has a sensor device for detecting the approach and the position of at least one finger of a user to the operating unit. In this case, if the sensor device detects that two or more fingers are undershooting a specifiable minimum distance from the operating unit and are carrying out a first specifiable motion, an additional operating area is displayed in addition or alternatively to the operating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Calin Augustin Rotaru
  • OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN OPERATING AREA
    Publication number: 20140354593
    Abstract: An operating system for a motor vehicle includes: a display device for displaying an operating area, and an operating unit which has a sensor device for detecting the approach and the position of at least one finger of a user to the operating unit. In this case, if the sensor device detects that two or more fingers are undershooting a specifiable minimum distance from the operating unit and are carrying out a first specifiable motion, an additional operating area is displayed in addition or alternatively to the operating area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventor: Calin Augustin Rotaru
  • CONTROL NETWORK FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20110172849
    Abstract: A control network for motor vehicles, having nodes in the form of control devices, sensors, and/or actuators, that are connected to each other and temporally synchronized by a time-controlled bus, wherein each node has a time reference system synchronized with the bus, that indicates a global time shared by all nodes, and at least one node has a time coordination system that, for a plurality of actions to be implemented by different nodes, coordinates the global times at which these actions are to be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Calin Augustin Rotaru, Robert Erhart