Grid for temperature control and fan speed
OwnerAndre NITZE-NELSON, Carsten KUHOFFinventors
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Abstract
For one embodiment, an exemplary method of controlling the climate in a vehicle includes the operations of detecting a moving of a touch from a first location to a second location on the touch screen in the vehicle, each of the first location and the second location associated with a pair of values; determining a first value and a second value of the pair of values associated with the second location on the touch screen; and adjusting the speed of at least one fan based on the first value and the temperature of at least one seating area based on the second value.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of controlling the climate in a passenger compartment of a vehicle, comprising:
- detecting a moving of a touch from a first location to a second location on a touch screen in the vehicle, each of the first location and the second location associated with a pair of values;
- determining a first value and a second value of the pair of values associated with the second location on the touch screen;
- and
- adjusting the speed of at least one fan based on the first value and the temperature of at least one seating area based on the second value.
The method of claim 2, wherein the touch screen includes a touch-sensitive rectangle touch interface corresponding to the first quadrant and the fourth quadrant in a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, wherein the rectangle touch interface includes a plurality of equal-sized grids, each of the plurality of grids being associated with a pair of integer values, with one value representing a fan speed, and the other value representing a temperature.
The method of claim 8, wherein the control graphic changes its color from a first shade in a color gradient to a second shade in the color gradient as it is being dragged vertically across each of the plurality of grids, wherein the color gradient is created from a color corresponding to one of the plurality of zones.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- detecting a moving of a touch from a first location to a second location on a touch screen in the vehicle, each of the first location and the second location associated with a pair of values;
- determining a first value and a second value of the pair of values associated with the second location on the touch screen;
- and
- adjusting the speed of at least one fan based on the first value and the temperature of at least one seating area based on the second value.
A data processing system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations including
- detecting a moving of a touch from a first location to a second location on a touch screen in the vehicle, each of the first location and the second location associated with a pair of values,
- determining a first value and a second value of the pair of values associated with the second location on the touch screen, and
- adjusting the speed of at least one fan based on the first value and the temperature of at least one seating area based on the second value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.