Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Hannes Trapp

Christian Knoll

Stephan Mueller

Thomas Hilger

Mario Urbina Cazenave

Stefan Breitschaft

Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for providing an active haptic feedback signal for an operating element upon actuation of the operating element. Whether the operating element is actuated is determined. Whether a function is assigned to the operating element, if actuation of the operating element has been determined, is determined. The active haptic feedback signal is output to the operating element only in those cases in which actuation of the operating element has been determined and that a function is assigned to the operating element has been determined.

Method for providing an active haptic feedback signal for an operating element

An audio device for vehicles includes two audio sources; three audio sinks formed of two headphone connections and a speaker system; and a touch-sensitive display. The audio device is configured to simultaneously play back the two audio sources; display one representation each for the audio sources and the audio sinks on the display; and detect a touch input, wherein the touch input includes a motion of a finger of the user on the display. The motion begins on the representation of an origin audio source and proceeds toward a destination audio sink. In response to the detection, the origin audio source is output on the destination audio sink.

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