Process for controlling functions in a motor vehicle having neighboring operating elements
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsPeter Schusser, Bernhard Niedermaier
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Abstract
In the case of the process for controlling functions in a motor vehicle having neighboring operating elements, the functions in each case being activatable by the operation of a defined operating element assigned to each function, the functions assigned to two neighboring operating elements receive a different priority. The higher-priority function can be activated immediately if the operating element assigned to it is operated before or within a defined time period after the neighboring other operating element.
Claims8
A process for controlling functions of a vehicle component in a motor vehicle having neighboring operating elements, the functions in each case being activatable by operation of a defined user-selectable operating element assigned to each function, the process comprising the acts of:
- associating, by the vehicle component, different priorities to functions respectively assigned to two neighboring user-selectable operating elements based on the two neighboring user-selectable operating elements being in proximity to each other;
- activating immediately, by the vehicle component, a higher-priority function if the user-selectable operating element assigned to such higher-priority function is operated before a neighboring other operating element;
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- avoiding an unintended operation of one of the neighboring operating elements by ignoring the operation of the user-selectable operating element with the lower-priority function if operation of said user-selectable operating element occurs during the operation of the user-selectable operating element having the higher-priority function.
A function control process of a vehicle component having different user-selectable operating elements in a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle in close proximity to one another, wherein each user-selectable operating element is configured to carry out respective functions in response to being actuated by a user, the process comprising the acts of:
- assigning, by the vehicle component, a higher-priority to a respective function of one user-selectable operating element based on a proximity to another user-selectable operating element;
- assigning, by the vehicle component, a lower-priority to a respective function of the another user-selectable operating element;
- activating, by the vehicle component, the higher-priority function immediately upon the one user-selectable operating element receiving an operating input from the user before said other user-selectable operating element receives such operating input from the user;
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- avoiding an unintended operation of the neighboring operating elements by ignoring receipt of such operating input by the other user-selectable operating element if said operating input occurs during activation of the higher-priority function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.