Volkswagen Ag

Sap Ag

Sap Se

Diebold Nixdorf Systems Gmbh

Stefan Schulz

Oliver Meyer

Gordon Seitz

Moritz Neugebauer

Imke Gaus

Christoph Waeller

Lorenz Bohrer

Lennart Bendewald

Christoph Wäller

Michael Mischke

Albert Rossmann

Peter Oel

Janine Perkuhn

Ralf Bergholz

Mirko Duchstein

Thomas Werner

Jens Ehrke

Christian Tendyck

Michael Daginnus

Jesko Klandt

Thomas Schwarz

Albert Zedlitz

Yongmei Wu

Mark Pleschka

Gabriel Schwab

Martin Fesefeldt

Omer Yosha

Thorsten Bohnenberger

Katja Lemke

Jörg Lilienthal

Stefan Struhs

Silvio Federau

Martin Hofmann

Johannes Neuber

Christoph Wāller

Karl Rox

Peter Dr Oel

Goldeh Mehrnaz

The invention relates to a method for calibrating an eye tracker unit of an operating device, wherein at least one apparatus is controlled by means of the operating device depending on at least one user input and wherein, in the case of the method, at least one graphical element is displayed respectively by a control unit of the operating device in at least one predetermined usage step of the operating device and at least one piece of viewing direction information is determined by means of the eye tracker unit for the user viewing a screen. The invention provides that, from the at least one displayed element, an optically salient element, on which the user must focus with their eyes in order to successfully perform the usage step, is established, and calibration data for the calibration of the eye tracker unit is generated depending on a display position of the optically salient element on the screen and depending on the at least one piece of viewing direction information.

Operating device with eye tracker unit and method for calibrating an eye tracker unit of an operating device

A method and apparatus for operating a user interface is provided, in which a first user input is detected, and a confidence analysis is carried out. Different kinds of system responses are generated depending on the result of the confidence analysis, wherein a first kind of system response comprises a system output which requires a second user input, and a second kind of system response comprises the automatic selection of a database entry. A third kind of system response comprises the first and second features, wherein the third kind of system response automatically changes into the first or second kind of system response after the expiry of a period of time. In this case, one of the two first kinds can be set as a standard or 'default,' into which the automatic change then takes place after expiry of the period of time without further user interaction.

Method and apparatus for operating a user interface

A method for providing a user interface in which a set of objects stored in the form of data is displayed as a sequential list. The method involves each of the objects being allocated a position in a graphical presentation displayed in addition to the sequential list, the position being taken as a basis for displaying the objects in the graphical presentation. A first user action selects a position in the graphical presentation, and the selected position is taken as a basis for selecting a subset from the displayed set of objects in the sequential list. The positions in the graphical presentation are allocated a metric, wherein it is possible to ascertain a measure of distance between two positions, and an object is included in the subset on the basis of the measure of distance between the position associated with the respective object and the selected position.

Method and apparatus for providing a user interface

A method and a system for processing multimodal input signals, wherein the system includes a merging unit which receives instruction messages from a sensor data evaluation device, which messages each indicate an instruction which can be executed by an application which can be coupled to the merging unit. For at least two of the instruction messages, the merging unit respectively generates a candidate object for the instruction message, the candidate object respectively indicating the instruction and respectively including a validity time specification of the candidate object. The merging unit also merges two of the candidate objects if the validity time specifications of these candidate objects indicate overlapping validity times and to forward an instruction to the application, which instruction is indicated by a candidate object which results from the merging operation.

Method and system for processing multimodal input signals

A navigation system, in particular for a motor vehicle, for determining a route to a destination, wherein the navigation system includes an input device for alphanumeric input of the destination and a display for displaying changing information and includes a processing unit for displaying potential destinations in a representation of a map by means of the display during input of the destination.

Navigation system, particularly for a motor vehicle

A method and system for managing data clusters is provided. A first data cluster is generated having a first data object and a second data object. The first data cluster has a strict hierarchy between the first data object and the second data object. A first object reference from the first data object to the second data object is extracted. The first object reference is stored in a first reference container. A second object reference from the first data object to a third data object is extracted. The third data object is stored in a second data cluster. The second object reference is stored in a second reference container. The second object reference is stored in a second reference container. A memory access is provided to the first data cluster based on the first object reference and the second object reference.

Method and system for managing data clusters

The vehicle system, controlled by control inputs, provides functionalities in the motor vehicle () and has an interface () for acquiring the control inputs and outputting data as well as a control device () for controlling the functionalities in accordance with the acquired control inputs. A storage medium () on which instructions explaining the functionalities and/or operation are stored is linked to the control device (). The control device () is designed to retrieve instructions from the storage medium () and output the same as part of the instructions via the interface (). The vehicle system (') can be operated in an assistance mode in which the user inputs are interpreted and evaluated as control inputs for the functionalities while instructions explaining the respective activated functionality and/or other operational options are additionally output at the same time.

Vehicle system comprising an assistance functionality

A method and system for managing transactions is provided. A transaction is initiated on a first data by a first entity with the first data being comprised in a basis memory. A change in the first data is moved as a second data to a transaction memory. The second data is read from the transaction memory if a request for reading the first data is received from the first entity. The first data is read from the basis memory if the request for reading the first data is received from a second entity. The write access of the second entity to the first data is locked.

Method and system for managing transactions utilizing a basis memory and a transaction memory

A method and system for garbage collection are provided. A memory allocation request is received for an object. An object identifier is generated for the object. A first memory location is allocated to the object. A translation table is generated storing a map of the object identifier and the first memory location. A data structure is generated for the object. A mark flag is set based on the number of references of the object. Data stored in the first memory location is moved to a second memory location based upon the value of the mark flag. The data is deleted from the first memory location based upon a value of the mark flag.

Method and system for garbage collection

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Stefan Schulz