Continental Automotive Gmbh

Bernhard Schild

Nhu Nguyen Thien

A method for automatically selecting one of a plurality of recognition algorithms for a handwritten input of alphanumeric characters and/or gestures into a selected input field displayed on a screen using a touch-sensitive input apparatus comprises carrying out optical character recognition in a region of the screen which comprises at least the input field and the immediate environment of the input field, or carrying out voice recognition for a voice instruction acoustically output after the selected input field has been displayed. Terms describing field types are searched for in the result of the optical character recognition or the voice recognition, and a recognition algorithm which is adapted to a field type found in the result of the optical character recognition or the voice recognition is selected.

Method and apparatus for improving recognition accuracy for the handwritten input of alphanumeric characters and gestures

A system, consisting of a vehicle having an infotainment system, a mobile data processing device and a motion sensing device, wherein a first communication interface is set up to transmit control commands Ifrom the motion sensing device to the mobile data processing device, the mobile data processing device is set up to translate the control commands Iinto instructions Ito the infotainment system, and a second communication interface is set up to transmit the instructions Ifrom the mobile data processing device to the infotainment system.

Method and device for coupling electronic appliances to a motor vehicle

A method for depicting sensor data of one or more first motor vehicle(s) via a man-machine interface of a second motor vehicle comprises depicting an image of at least part of surroundings of the second motor vehicle via the man-machine interface of the second motor vehicle. One or more first motor vehicle(s) in the surroundings is/are mapped at least in part. A user selects one or more of the mapped first motor vehicles to which respective point-to-point connections are set up that are used to send a request for information pertaining to available sensors and the properties thereof. Based on the responses, a schematic depiction of the surroundings of the second motor vehicle is created and reproduced that shows positions of the motor vehicles in the surroundings, the sensors available in the motor vehicles and areas within which the available sensors can pick up objects.

Method and device for selecting and transmitting sensor data from a first motor vehicle to a second motor vehicle

In an input device for inputting characters on a user interface by handwriting, the movement of an input unit, in particular a finger of a user, is detected and converted to an input pattern corresponding to the detected movement. The input pattern is compared with stored characters of a character set, and if the input pattern sufficiently matches one of the stored characters, the character is selected. During the input, the user receives acoustic feedback about the input process, such that the acoustic feedback signal is output in a constant manner outside a defined edge area of the user interface and is output in an incremental or continuous manner at a decreasing distance from the edge in a defined edge area of the user interface.

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Wetzlar, Germany

Bernhard Schild