User interface and method for adapting a menu bar on a user interface
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHeino WENGELNIK, Frank ALTHOFF, Maria Esther MEJIA GONZALEZ
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Abstract
A user interface and a method for adapting a menu bar on a user interface. The method includes displaying the menu bar on a display unit of the user interface, receiving a first user input for displaying a two-dimensional arrangement in the menu bar of displayable entries representing ranges of functions of the user interface, displaying the arrangement on the display unit, receiving a second predefined user input with respect to an entry of the menu bar or an entry of the arrangement, and, in response thereto, adapting the menu bar.
Claims15
A method for adapting a menu bar on a user interface, the method comprising the steps:
- displaying the menu bar on a display unit of the user interface,
- receiving a first user input for displaying a two-dimensional arrangement in the menu bar of displayable entries representing ranges of functions of the user interface;
- displaying the arrangement on the display unit;
- receiving a second predefined user input with respect to an entry of the menu bar or an entry of the arrangement;
- and
- in response thereto, adapting the menu bar.
A user interface for adapting a menu bar on a display unit of a locomotive vehicle, the user interface comprising,
- the display unit for displaying the menu bar comprising entries representing ranges of functions of the user interface;
- an input unit for receiving user inputs and
- an evaluating unit for evaluating user inputs, wherein
- the display unit is configured to display, in response to a first user input, a two-dimensional arrangement in the menu bar of displayable entries,
- in response to a second predefined user input with respect to an entry of the menu bar or an entry of the arrangement, to display an adapted menu bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.