Volkswagen Ag

Panasonic Corporation

Carsten Rieger

Mark Peter Czelnik

Simon Gerlach

Michael Klaas

Ralf Siegel

Torsten Woyth

A method and an apparatus, particularly in a motor vehicle, for input of data with haptic feedback. The method includes sensing a touch position on a user programmable touch-sensitive display device, selecting a function via the touch position, sensing of a contact pressure force on the user programmable touch-sensitive display device, initiating the selected function when a first force threshold is exceeded, and outputting a haptic feedback item. Also disclosed is an associated apparatus.

Method and apparatus for inputting data with two types of input and haptic feedback

The invention relates to operating devices for a vehicle with haptic feedback comprising a touch-sensitive position detection device () for determining touch positions as input parameters on a touch surface () of the touch-sensitive position detection device (); an actuator device (), coupled to the touch-sensitive position detection device (), for generating the haptically detectable feedback on the touch surface (); and an operating logic () which is designed to execute a triggering of functions and/or vehicle systems depending on detected input parameters, wherein the touch-sensitive position detection device () and the actuator device () are designed with a haptic control device () in an operating device (), and the operating logic () is designed in a central control unit (), which is designed separately from the operating device () and coupled in terms of information technology with the operating device (), and detected input parameters are transmitted to the central control unit () as well as to the haptic control device (), wherein the haptic control device () comprises a memory device () in which multiple different templates (-) are stored, wherein the multiple templates (-) each comprise at least one trigger condition for a haptic feedback, and the operating logic () is designed to transmit a template signal for selecting or generating a current template to the haptic control device (), and wherein the haptic control device () has a comparison device () which compares the detected input parameters touched during a user input in the operating device () via the operating device () with the at least one trigger condition of the current template in order to determine whether the detected input parameters satisfy the at least one trigger condition, and the haptic control device () is designed to control the actuator device () for generating the haptic feedback if the comparison device () has identified the satisfaction of the at least one trigger condition. The invention also relates to a method for detecting user inputs.

Operating device with fast haptic feedback

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Carsten Rieger