Audi Ag

Volkswagen Ag

Aaron Rudolph

Megan A McClain

Heiko Maiwand

Ulrich Mueller

Marcus Kühne

Ulrich Müller

Matthew Jolda

Stefan Henze

A system includes a graphical user interface and a trackball device configured to provide controlling input to the graphical user interface. The trackball device includes a trackball configured to allow a rocking motion along an axis of the trackball.

Trackball input device with additional rocking motion

A console includes a display and a plurality of individually-actuatable modules, including a physical key configured to slide into and out of a surface of the console. The modules include a motor, a threaded shaft coupled to and extending from the motor, and a movable platform movably attached to the threaded shaft. The physical key is movably supported on the movable platform.

Sliding hard keys

A method for operating a user interface of a vehicle, a user interface for a vehicle, and a vehicle are described.

User interface of a vehicle

The invention relates to a motor vehicle which includes a display for presenting a list of entries, wherein an entry has an associated function of the motor vehicle, and wherein the motor vehicle comprises a rotary knob which is associated with the display, which can be rotated about an axis of rotation and which can be rotated through a prescribed angle of rotation in order to move a marker from one entry to an entry which is adjacent thereto.

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Montara, CA, United States of America

Aaron Rudolph