Context-sensitive help for display device associated with power driven wheelchair

A method for providing help information on a display device associated with a power driven wheelchair, including:

• a) displaying content on the display device during operation or support of the power driven wheelchair;
• b) detecting selective activation of a first input device;
• c) in response to detection of the first input device activation, selecting help information content from a collection of help information, the selected help information content being contextually related to multiple screen objects simultaneously displayed on the display device and associated with the operation or support of the power driven wheelchair;
• and
• d) simultaneously displaying the contextually-related help information content for the multiple screen objects on the display device.

A method for providing help information on a display device associated with a power driven wheelchair, including:

• a) displaying content on the display device during operation or support of the power driven wheelchair, the content displayed during at least a portion of the operation or support including multiple screen objects simultaneously displayed;
• b) detecting activation of a screen navigation control;
• c) in response to detection of the screen navigation control activation, designating a first screen object from the multiple screen objects simultaneously displayed as active within the content;
• d) detecting selective activation of a help switch;
• e) in response to detection of the help switch activation, selecting help information content from a collection of help information, the selected help information content being contextually related to the active screen object and the content of the multiple screen objects simultaneously displayed on the display device and associated with the operation or support of the power driven wheelchair;
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• f) displaying the contextually-related help information content on the display device.

An apparatus associated with a power driven wheelchair, including:

• a display device to selectively display screen content during operation or support of the power driven wheelchair;
• a first input device for selective activation;
• and
• a microcontroller in operative communication with the display device and the first input device;
• wherein the microcontroller includes logic to control the screen content displayed on the display device during the operation or support and detects activation of the first input device;
• and
• wherein, in response to detection of the first input device activation, the microcontroller executes logic for:
• retrieving the current screen content, wherein the current screen content includes multiple screen objects;
• selecting multiple help information content from a collection of help information, the selected multiple help information content being contextually related to the multiple screen objects simultaneously displayed on the display device;
• combining the selected multiple help information for the multiple screen objects to construct a help message;
• and
• displaying the help message.

An apparatus associated with a power driven wheelchair, including:

• a display device to selectively display screen content during operation or support of the power driven wheelchair;
• a first input device for selective activation;
• and
• a microcontroller in operative communication with the display device and the first input device;
• wherein the microcontroller includes logic to control the screen content displayed on the display device during the operation or support and detects activation of the first input device;
• and
• wherein, in response to detection of the first input device activation, the microcontroller executes logic for:
• retrieving the current screen content;
• selecting help information content from a collection of help information, the selected help information content being contextually related to the screen content displayed on the display device and indicative of how specific items of the screen content are currently being used;
• combining the selected help information and the current screen content to construct a help message;
• and
• displaying the help message.

A method for providing help information on a display device associated with a power driven wheelchair, including:

• a) displaying screen content on the display device during operation or support of the power driven wheelchair;
• b) detecting selective activation of a first input device;
• c) in response to detection of the first input device activation;
• retrieving the current screen content, wherein the current screen content includes multiple screen objects;
• selecting multiple help information content from a collection of help information, the selected multiple help information content being contextually related to the multiple screen objects simultaneously displayed on the display device;
• and combining the selected multiple help information for the multiple screen objects to construct a help message;
• and
• d) displaying the contextually-related help message on the display device.