Audi Ag

Emanuel Angelescu

Tahar Bouaziz

Ulrich Müller

Michael Betz

Werner Hamberger

Carolin Köberle

Jürgen Steinle

The present invention relates to a vehicle-associated device with an operating unit by means of which at least alphanumerical characters and/or symbols can be selected and assembled to form a character or function group, and with a display device by means of which, using a display unit, selectable characters and/or symbols can be displayed in at least one selection field, and selected characters, symbols, a character or function group can be displayed in at least one input field, with a storage device with data stored therein, and with a data processing unit for selecting data from data stored in the storage device, on the basis of predeterminable criteria and taking into consideration the characters and/or symbols selected so far by a user, wherein the device is set up in order to display, on the display unit, a completion designationin the area of the selection fieldin the immediate vicinity of a character or symbol selected most recently by a user, to the extent that a possible completion of the character(s) and/or symbol(s) selected so far is determined by the data processing unit on the basis of the data in the storage device and taking into consideration the character(s) and/or symbol(s) selected by a user so far, the completion designationcan be selected by a user using the operating unit or a selection designation can be positioned automatically on the completion designation, and a displayed completion suggestion can be selected by a user using the operating unit.

Device associated with a vehicle and having a spelling system with a completion indication

A method and an apparatus facilitate the orientation of a user in a virtual environment. This involves a user initiating a change between two views of the virtual environment. A first view provides a detailed representation of a destination and a second view is scaled such that both the destination and a reference point, such as a current position, are presented together.

Orientation zoom in navigation maps when displayed on small screens

A method for resolving and operating POI stacks in a virtual environment displayed on an image screen surface, automatically scales, upon selecting a first POI stack with a first quantity of POI's contained in the POI stack, the representation of the virtual environment such that POI's contained in the first POI stack are displayed on the image screen surface such that individual POI's, when correctly positioned in the virtual environment, maintain a minimum size and a minimum distance to respective neighboring POI's, and, if the minimum distance cannot be maintained, a partial quantity of the quantity of POI's of the first POI stack is combined in at least one second POI stack on the basis of the respective position of the individual POI's in the virtual environment. A corresponding system is also described.

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Ingolstadt, Germany

Emanuel Angelescu