Patents by Inventor Rainer Dehmann
Rainer Dehmann 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).
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Patent number: 11091036Abstract: In a method for displaying items of information in a transportation device, the items of information are displayed in the form of hierarchical menu structures. A device for displaying items of information includes a control unit and a display unit for the stereoscopic and/or autostereoscopic display of items of information. In the method, the display is implemented stereoscopically, at least two different menus or menu items being displayed to the viewer at different distances. The instrument cluster includes the placement of a mask in front of the display of a display unit, the mask modifying the light emission of the light emitted by the display so as to result in a display of autostereoscopic images.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Heino Wengelnik, Will Specks, Mathias Kuhn, Rainer Dehmann, Heiner Bartoszewski
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Patent number: 11014449Abstract: In a method for displaying information, in particular in a vehicle, a list of multiple graphic objects is graphically represented on a display, a display area of the display being associated with each represented graphic object and the objects being selectable for executing a function. Prior to the selection of one of the objects, an animation runs in the display area of at least one graphic object, which illustrates the function associated with the graphic object.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2009Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Mathias Kuhn, Rainer Dehmann, Frank Hauschild
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Patent number: 10139988Abstract: In a method for displaying information arranged in lists, a portion of a list is displayed in a display area, which includes a plurality of list entries, multiple elements being associated at least in part with the list entries, the displayed portion of the list being modifiable by a scrolling action such that previous and subsequent list entries are displayable in succession, and, when a list entry is selected, this list entry is displayed together with at least a portion of the elements that are associated with the list entry. If a selected list entry is displayed together with at least a portion of the elements associated with the selected list entry and the scrolling action is performed, first previous or subsequent elements are displayed in succession and thereupon list entries preceding or following the selected list entry are displayed. A device is configured for implementing the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Frank Hauschild, Mathias Kuhn, Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 10052955Abstract: A method for providing an operating device in a vehicle, wherein a control device generates graphics data which control a display surface so that a graphics object relating to an executed application is displayed, and the geometric structure of an actuating object is detected in a detection space in front of the display surface and, depending upon the detected structure, a control signal for controlling the executed application is generated. A control signal for stopping the executed application is generated by the control system if a geometric structure of the actuating object has been detected in the detection space, wherein a substantially planar surface of the actuating object which is oriented substantially parallel to the display surface is spaced apart from the display surface. Also disclosed is a corresponding operating device for carrying out the method and a vehicle having such an operating device.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Rainer Dehmann, Frank Hauschild, Sönke Petersen, Mathias Kuhn
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Patent number: 9836208Abstract: In a method for displaying information with the aid of a display mounted in a motor vehicle, a user-interface device generates graphics data that control the display such that a graphical object is displayed in which a display content is shown in a specific scale, and one pixel of the display is selected with the aid of an input device, and a line is drawn on the display starting from this pixel. The scale of the display content is altered as a function of the length of the line. A display device for a motor vehicle can implement the method.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Rainer Dehmann, Gustav Hofmann, Mathias Kuhn
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Patent number: 9802484Abstract: A method for displaying information, in which at least one first graphical object is graphically displayed on a display area, and, in the case of a change to a second graphical object, a control device generates graphic data that control the display area in a manner that causes the first object to disappear and the second object to be faded in. In the case of a change to the second object, the control device generates graphic data that control the display area such that, in the perspective representation on the display area, the first graphical object is swiveled out about a first axis disposed outside of the display area; and, in the perspective representation on the display area, the second graphical object is swiveled in about a second axis disposed outside of the display area, until it is fully displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Rainer Dehmann, Mathias Kuhn, Frank Hauschild
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Publication number: 20170285355Abstract: In a method for displaying items of information in a transportation device, the items of information are displayed in the form of hierarchical menu structures. A device for displaying items of information includes a control unit and a display unit for the stereoscopic and/or autostereoscopic display of items of information. In the method, the display is implemented stereoscopically, at least two different menus or menu items being displayed to the viewer at different distances. The instrument cluster includes the placement of a mask in front of the display of a display unit, the mask modifying the light emission of the light emitted by the display so as to result in a display of autostereoscopic images.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Heino WENGELNIK, Will SPECKS, Mathias KUHN, Rainer DEHMANN, Heiner BARTOSZEWSKI
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Patent number: 9758150Abstract: In a method for displaying a plurality of two-dimensional, ordered objects on a display area, a user-interface device generates graphics data that control the display area such that a subset of the objects is displayed in perspective, a first object of this subset being displayed in perspective in the foreground, and in response to an input with the aid of an input device, an arithmetic logic unit of the user-interface device alters the graphics data such that a different, second object is displayed in perspective in the foreground.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Frank Hauschild, Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 9746946Abstract: In a method for displaying information with the aid of a display mounted in a motor vehicle, graphic data which actuate at least a subregion of the display are generated by a user interface device, such that in an operating state, information that is assigned to at least one operator step able to be executed by an input device are generated and in a display state, information which is not assigned to any operator steps is displayed, and it is detected when an object enters an operator control zone assigned to the input device, and when it leaves the operator control zone. The method is characterized in that the user interface device switches from the operating state to the display state when the object leaves the operator control zone and the object does not reenter the operator control zone within a defined time interval. Furthermore, a display device is adapted for executing this method.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Frank Hauschild, Mathias Kuhn, Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 9671867Abstract: An interactive control device includes a display device, and a method is for operating the interactive control device. The method includes: displaying graphical information on the display device; receiving sensor information; activating a control action if on the basis of the sensor information it is ascertained that a body part of a user is located within an activation region that is spatially defined relative to a display region of a control element on the display device with which the control action is associated; the received sensor information including user information that is evaluated prior to an activation of the control action in order to ascertain a control intention for the at least one control element; and the information represented on the display device being adapted as a function of the ascertained control intention such that the at least one control element is represented in a manner optimized for the activation of the control action associated with the control element.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Katharina Bachfischer, Christoph Waeller, Volkmar Wagner, Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 9555708Abstract: In a method for controlling the display of information on a display area, the information is structured hierarchically in objects, in which an object and a path, which leads to the object in the hierarchical structure, are displayed. The path is divided into individual path elements, the path elements belonging to different hierarchy levels of the path leading to the object, and the path elements being selectable buttons, and the information display jumping to the hierarchy level of the selected path element when a path element is selected.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Frank Hauschild, Mathias Kuhn, Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 9499052Abstract: A method for providing an operating device in a vehicle, wherein a control device generates graphics data which control a display surface so that a graphics object relating to an executed application is displayed, and the geometric structure of an actuating object is detected in a detection space in front of the display surface and, depending upon the detected structure, a control signal for controlling the executed application is generated. A control signal for stopping the executed application is generated by the control system if a geometric structure of the actuating object has been detected in the detection space, wherein a substantially planar surface of the actuating object which is oriented substantially parallel to the display surface is spaced apart from the display surface. Also disclosed is a corresponding operating device for carrying out the method and a vehicle having such an operating device.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventors: Rainer Dehmann, Frank Hauschild, Sönke Petersen, Mathias Kuhn
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Publication number: 20160318397Abstract: A method for providing an operating device in a vehicle, wherein a control device generates graphics data which control a display surface so that a graphics object relating to an executed application is displayed, and the geometric structure of an actuating object is detected in a detection space in front of the display surface and, depending upon the detected structure, a control signal for controlling the executed application is generated. A control signal for stopping the executed application is generated by the control system if a geometric structure of the actuating object has been detected in the detection space, wherein a substantially planar surface of the actuating object which is oriented substantially parallel to the display surface is spaced apart from the display surface. Also disclosed is a corresponding operating device for carrying out the method and a vehicle having such an operating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Rainer DEHMANN, Frank HAUSCHILD, Sönke PETERSEN, Mathias KUHN
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Patent number: 9310989Abstract: A method for providing a user interface, wherein a real subset of a set having several objects can be displayed by a control device of a display unit, a graphic element is displayed by way of the position of a first graphic sub-element relative to a second graphic sub-element, and the displayed subset is changed by an operating process. Objects are divided into n disjoint subsets, wherein n is a natural number greater than 2 and n positions are defined relative to the second graphic sub-element, and the first graphic sub-element is displayed only for one of these n positions if no operating process for changing the subset is carried out, wherein the positioning of the first graphic sub-element on one of the n positions shows which of the n subsets is currently being displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventor: Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 9221342Abstract: A method for displaying graphical objects. The graphical objects can be displayed by a control device of a display device in a first or second display mode. The speed of the vehicle is measured, and in a first speed range the graphical objects are displayed in the first display mode and in a second speed range the graphical objects are displayed in the second display mode. Also disclosed is a device for displaying information of graphical objects.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AGInventor: Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 9019311Abstract: In a method for displaying information in a motor vehicle, at least one two-dimensional object is displayed graphically in a first representation which shows one side of the object, and in a second representation which shows the other side of the object, with the aid of a display mounted in the motor vehicle, different information being shown on the respective sides of the two-dimensional graphical object, and the graphical object extending substantially over the entire size of the display in at least one direction in the first and/or second representation. The representation of the graphical object is altered as a function of a control signal such that the graphical object rotates from one side to the other side in a perspective representation on the display, the two-dimensional graphical object always being fully displayed, at least perspectively, during the rotation. A corresponding display device for a motor vehicle is provided for performing the method.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Rainer Dehmann, Gustav Hofmann, Mathias Kuhn, Frank Hauschild
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Publication number: 20150103100Abstract: In a method for displaying information in a motor vehicle, at least one two-dimensional object is displayed graphically in a first representation which shows one side of the object, and in a second representation which shows the other side of the object, with the aid of a display mounted in the motor vehicle, different information being shown on the respective sides of the two-dimensional graphical object, and the graphical object extending substantially over the entire size of the display in at least one direction in the first and/or second representation. The representation of the graphical object is altered as a function of a control signal such that the graphical object rotates from one side to the other side in a perspective representation on the display, the two-dimensional graphical object always being fully displayed, at least perspectively, during the rotation. A corresponding display device for a motor vehicle is provided for performing the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Rainer Dehmann, Gustav Hofmann, Mathias Kuhn, Frank Hauschild
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Patent number: 8994676Abstract: A method for operating a control device, in particular in a vehicle, the control device having a display surface and a control element. A detection region formed in the vicinity of the control element is monitored by a proximity sensing device such that an actuating element is detected in the detection region, and first and second display contents are displayed on the display surface. The first display content is no longer displayed if an actuating element has been detected in the detection region by the proximity sensing device. Also disclosed is a control device for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Mathias Kuhn, Frank Hauschild, Rainer Dehmann
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Patent number: 8988358Abstract: An input device, e.g., for a motor vehicle, includes a display for displaying variable information, and a touch screen, disposed above the display, for inputting instructions by touching the touch screen, and the input device including a control system for generating a selection marking displayable on the display, and for displacing the selection marking displayed by the display according to a touching motion across the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2006Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Andreas Medler, Ulrike Wehling, Alf Pollex, Dino Göhler, Jan Michaelis, Rainer Dehmann, Kyoung Sun Han
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Patent number: 8988319Abstract: A display device includes at least one processing device and at least one display element for representing at least two image planes that are able to be combined with each other, and a method is for representing a plurality of combinable image planes for displaying data.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2005Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Volkswagen AGInventors: Stefan Goss, Stefan Lux, Robert Hofmann, Rainer Dehmann, Kyoung Sun Han, André Haedicke, Heino Wengelnik, Lorenz Bohrer, Joerg Lilienthal, Will Specks