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).

  • Publication number: 20110187749
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Rainer Dehmann, Gustav Hofmann, Mathias Kuhn, Frank Hauschild
  • Publication number: 20110179363
    Abstract: In a method for displaying information in a motor vehicle, at least one two-dimensional object is represented graphically with the aid of a display mounted in the motor vehicle, the graphical object including a display field and an operating field. A user-interface device generates graphics data which control the display such that the display field is shown on one side of the two-dimensional graphical object and the operating field is shown on the other side of the two-dimensional graphical object, 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 the object in the perspective representation on the display rotates from one side to the other side. A corresponding display device is provided for a motor vehicle, and a motor vehicle may include such a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Rainer Dehmann, Mathias Kuhn
  • Publication number: 20100321176
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle for the display of information relating to the operation of the vehicle includes a display, at least one round instrument which is readable to a viewer in the area of the display, and a control device which controls the reading on the display and of the round instrument. The display device can be controlled by the control device such that the display device has a first display mode in which the at least one round instrument is displayed to the viewer and the display has a display area within the round instrument and a display area outside the round instrument, and the display device has a second display mode in which the at least one round instrument is not displayed to the viewer, the information which can be displayed by the round instrument is represented by a digital reading of the display, and the information displayed by the display in the first display mode within the round instrument is displayed in another display area of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Hofmann, Gustav Hofmann, Sun Kyoung Han, Mathias Kuhn, Marc Amann, Rainer Dehmann
  • Publication number: 20090327977
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Katharina Bachfischer, Christoph Waeller, Volkmar Wagner, Rainer Dehmann
  • Publication number: 20080161997
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Heino Wengelnik, Will Specks, Mathias Kuhn, Rainer Dehmann, Heiner Bartoszewski
  • Publication number: 20080068399
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Stefan Goss, Stefan Lux, Robert Hofmann, Rainer Dehmann, Kyoung Han, Andre Haedicke, Heino Wengelnik, Lorenz Bohrer, Joerg Lilienthal, Will Specks
  • Publication number: 20070146341
    Abstract: An input device, e.g., for a motor vehicle, includes: a display for the visual representation of an operating element; a touch screen disposed above the display for detecting a touching contact of the touch screen in the region of the operating element; and a control system for displacing the operating element, represented with the aid of the display, according to a touching motion across the touch screen, and the input device including an actuator for deflecting the touch screen when the operating element attains a predefined position or is moved a predefined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Andreas Medler, Ulrike Wehling, Alf Pollex, Jan Michaelis, Rainer Dehmann, Kyoung Han
  • Publication number: 20070146342
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Andreas Medler, Ulrike Wehling, Alf Pollex, Dino Gohler, Jan Michaelis, Rainer Dehmann, Kyoung Han