Patents by Inventor Nils Kotter

Nils Kotter 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).

  • Patent number: 11225263
    Abstract: A driver assistance system, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a vehicle and a method for providing information to a user of a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. In particular, the present disclosure relates to an intuitively comprehensible announcement associated with a point of interest (POI) for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Inventors: Astrid Kassner, Jacqueline Cullmann, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 11188211
    Abstract: Transportation vehicle with an image capturing unit, at least one first and one second device, and an operating system for operating the devices. The operating system includes a detection unit, by which at least one first or one second driving state of the transportation vehicle is detected at a point in time, and a control unit coupled to the detection unit and by which the first or second device are selected depending on the detected driving state and a graphic user interface is generated for the selected device. Also disclosed is an input and output unit coupled to the control unit and having a display surface with at least one first and one second area. The generated graphic user interface for the selected device is output by the first area of the display surface, wherein the first area has a touch-sensitive surface by which a user input is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventors: Astrid Kassner, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 10940757
    Abstract: User interfaces, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a transportation vehicle, and a method for displaying information on a display device of a transportation vehicle. The method includes determining an information to be displayed, determining that a user sees the display device and, in response thereto, displaying a message representing the information on the display device. In response to the display of the message on the display device, to determine that the user looks away from the display device and, in response thereto, to hide the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventors: Astrid Kassner, Jaqueline Cullmann, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 10926634
    Abstract: Proposed is a transportation vehicle, a user interface and a method for operating a user interface for a transportation vehicle. The method may comprise the steps of: defining a screen background graphic for a display device of the transportation means, automatically detecting a situation in which a predefined region of the wallpaper has been covered by an item of foreground content, and, in response thereto, automatically repositioning the wallpaper in relation to the foreground content for preventing the region from being covered by the foreground content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 10838604
    Abstract: Disclosed are a user interface, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a transportation vehicle and a method for the multiple use of a display unit of a user interface included in a transportation vehicle. Said method may comprise the steps: displaying, on a first display unit, display elements representing a range of information; detecting the approach of a user, and in response thereto, displaying control elements representing a range of functions in place of the display elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 10821925
    Abstract: A device and method for providing support to a user prior to activating a switch to electromotively adjust a component of a transportation means is disclosed. The transportation means and a device and a method for assisting a user prior to an activating of a switch for electric motor adjustment of a component of a transportation means are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of recognizing of an approach of the user to a first switch and in response displaying of a prompt to a function coordinated with the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kotter
  • Patent number: 10596906
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an infotainment system, to a locomotion vehicle, and to a user interface. The user interface may comprise: an input device for detecting swipe gestures of a user guided by a structure in respect of two dimensions, called “finger strip” in the following, a display device, and an evaluating unit. The evaluating unit may be configured to evaluate swipe gestures detected by means of the finger strip for substantially continuously variable adjustment to an output variable and to evaluate tap inputs detected by means of the finger strip for selection and/or definition of favorites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kötter
  • Publication number: 20190322175
    Abstract: User interfaces, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a transportation vehicle, and a method for displaying information on a display device of a transportation vehicle. The method includes determining an information to be displayed, determining that a user sees the display device and, in response thereto, displaying a message representing the information on the display device. In response to the display of the message on the display device, to determine that the user looks away from the display device and, in response thereto, to hide the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Astrid KASSNER, Jaqueline CULLMANN, Nils KÖTTER
  • Patent number: 10449857
    Abstract: An information reproduction system for a vehicle having an input device that receives a selection signal and a processor that produces a video or control signal, as a result of which a status bar arranged at an edge of a touch-sensitive display panel of a display device and a display area adjoining the status bar are reproduced on the touch-sensitive display panel by the display device on the basis of the video or control signal device. The selection signal has information about a starting point and an end point of a movement by a user that touches the display panel of the display device without interruption. The processor produces the video or control signal on the basis of the selection signal. The information reproduction system also has an output device that provides the video or control signal for a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 10384542
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an infotainment system, to a locomotion vehicle, and to a user interface. The user interface may comprise: an input device for detecting swipe gestures of a user guided by a structure in respect of two dimensions, called “finger strip” in the following, a display device, and an evaluating unit. The evaluating unit may be configured to evaluate swipe gestures detected by means of the finger strip for substantially continuously variable adjustment to an output variable and to evaluate tap inputs detected by means of the finger strip for selection and/or definition of favorites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Holger Wild, Nils Kötter
  • Publication number: 20190152318
    Abstract: Proposed is a transportation vehicle, a user interface and a method for operating a user interface for a transportation vehicle. The method may comprise the steps of: defining a screen background graphic for a display device of the transportation means, automatically detecting a situation in which a predefined region of the wallpaper has been covered by an item of foreground content, and, in response thereto, automatically repositioning the wallpaper in relation to the foreground content for preventing the region from being covered by the foreground content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Holger WILD, Nils KÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20190004693
    Abstract: Transportation vehicle with an image capturing unit, at least one first and one second device, and an operating system for operating the devices. The operating system includes a detection unit, by which at least one first or one second driving state of the transportation vehicle is detected at a point in time, and a control unit coupled to the detection unit and by which the first or second device are selected depending on the detected driving state and a graphic user interface is generated for the selected device. Also disclosed is an input and output unit coupled to the control unit and having a display surface with at least one first and one second area. The generated graphic user interface for the selected device is output by the first area of the display surface, wherein the first area has a touch-sensitive surface by which a user input is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Astrid KASSNER, Nils KÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20180267637
    Abstract: An infotainment system, a device for operating an infotainment system of a locomotion device, a locomotion device, a user interface as well as a method for the output of feedback about an input with the aid of a finger-operated control bar are provided. The method includes the steps of detecting a predefined number of fingers placed on the finger-operated control bar, and in response thereto, emitting a light color that is allocated to the number of placed fingers, with the aid of a light outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Holger WILD, Nils KÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20180178812
    Abstract: A driver assistance system, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a vehicle and a method for providing information to a user of a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. In particular, the present disclosure relates to an intuitively comprehensible announcement associated with a point of interest (POI) for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Astrid Kassner, Jacqueline Cullmann, Nils Kötter
  • Patent number: 9878618
    Abstract: An information playback system in a vehicle having a processor designed to generate a video or control signal and provide this signal to a display device so that the video or control signal causes a playback of at least two different contents in two adjoining subsurfaces of a display surface in a display device. The processor generates the video or control signal so that a boundary between the two subsurfaces can be shifted based on a selection detected by the display unit, or based on an approach detected by a display unit, or based on a predefined movement detected by an input device, resulting in modification of the ratio of the surface portions of the two subsurfaces on the display surface of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Nils Kötter, Holger Wild, Heino Wengelnik, Frank Althoff
  • Publication number: 20180024733
    Abstract: Disclosed are a user interface, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a transportation vehicle and a method for the multiple use of a display unit of a user interface included in a transportation vehicle. Said method may comprise the steps: displaying, on a first display unit, display elements representing a range of information; detecting the approach of a user, and in response thereto, displaying control elements representing a range of functions in place of the display elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Holger WILD, Nils KÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20170368938
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an infotainment system, to a locomotion vehicle, and to a user interface. The user interface may comprise: an input device for detecting swipe gestures of a user guided by a structure in respect of two dimensions, called “finger strip” in the following, a display device, and an evaluating unit. The evaluating unit may be configured to evaluate swipe gestures detected by means of the finger strip for substantially continuously variable adjustment to an output variable and to evaluate tap inputs detected by means of the finger strip for selection and/or definition of favorites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Holger WILD, Nils KÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20170349046
    Abstract: A mode of transportation, an infotainment system, and a device for operating an infotainment system of a mode of transportation having a finger strip extending in a linear or curved manner for haptically guiding a finger of a user, a detection unit for detecting swipe gestures carried out on the finger strip, an analyzing unit for processing detected swipe gestures, and a linear light outlet extending at least approximately completely along the finger strip. The device acknowledges a user gesture by a light signal emitted from the light outlet in response to a user gesture detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Holger WILD, Nils KÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20170351422
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transportation means, a user interface and a method for overlapping the display of display contents of a user interface of a transportation means. The method comprises the steps: displaying first display contents on a first display device of the transportation means; picking up a pre-defined user entry with respect to the first display contents and in response thereto; extending a first surface associated with the first display contents on a second display device of the transportation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Holger WILD, Nils KÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20160288643
    Abstract: An information playback system in a vehicle having a processor designed to generate a video or control signal and provide this signal to a display device so that the video or control signal causes a playback of at least two different contents in two adjoining subsurfaces of a display surface in a display device. The processor generates the video or control signal so that a boundary between the two subsurfaces can be shifted based on a selection detected by the display unit, or based on an approach detected by a display unit, or based on a predefined movement detected by an input device, resulting in modification of the ratio of the surface portions of the two subsurfaces on the display surface of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Nils KÖTTER, Holger WILD, Heino WENGELNIK, Frank ALTHOFF