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Siemens Vdo Automotive Ag

Boris Basche

Nhu Nguyen Thien

Daniel Hostmann

Roland Falkner

Oliver Pichl

Gerhard Lex

Reinhard Haubner

Richard Scherl

Elmar Weber

Volker Erben

Klaus Hasemann

Presented is a method for selecting a label from a multiplicity of labels stored in a memory element. The method includes inputting a handwritten character into a handwritten input apparatus, associating an alphanumeric character with the handwritten input character using a character recognition apparatus, adding the associated alphanumeric character to an already input character string to produce an extended character string, comparing the extended character string with the labels stored in the memory element, and selecting one or more of the stored labels using the comparison. The alphanumeric character is selected from a dynamically alterable character set which contains only characters which, in addition to the already input character string, produce an extended character string, which is an initial component of at least one of the stored labels. Also presented is a motor vehicle navigation system in which address database entries are selected by the above described method.

Method for selecting a designation

The invention relates to a rotating actuator/pressure actuator () comprising a ring-shaped rotary transducer () consisting of an inner ring and a rotary ring with a handle () and which can rotate around the inner ring about an axis (z) and which is displaceably arranged in a linear manner along the axis (Z) in relation to a housing (), in addition to an inner part (touchpad) which is arranged in an inner area () of the ring-shaped rotary transducer () and which is displaceable in a linear manner along the axis (z) together with the ring-shaped rotary transducer () in relation to the housing (). Linear displacement of the handle () and/or inner part (touchpad) triggers a push-button function. According to the invention, the rotary transducer () and inner part (touchpad) are arranged in a pan-shaped guide element () which is arranged in a linear displaceable manner along the axis (z) in the housing; the inner ring of the rotary transducer () is rotationally fixed in the guide element (); the rotary transducer () and the inner par (touchpad) are connected to the guide element () in such a way that they are not displaceable along the axis (z) and the guide element () acts upon the push button ().

Operating element for a multi-media system in a motor vehicle

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Bernhardswald, Germany

Boris Basche