Volkswagen Ag

Thorsten Bohnenberger

Yongmei Wu

Lennart Bendewald

Christoph Waeller

Christoph Wäller

Stefan Schulz

Ralf Bergholz

Michael Daginnus

Gabriel Schwab

Martin Fesefeldt

Katja Lemke

Martin Hofmann

Christoph Wāller

Karl Rox

Jörg Lilienthal

Goldeh Mehrnaz

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

An information device, e.g., inside a motor vehicle, includes at least one output device and a processing device, to which a memory device is assigned in which all types of vehicle data, in particular data of vehicle functions and/or vehicle elements, their operation, display or manipulation, and/or data of vehicle states, are stored, and a method is for supplying information about the mentioned vehicle data. The corresponding vehicle data, in particular vehicle functions and their operation or manipulation, and/or vehicle elements and/or their function and/or manipulation, and/or vehicle states and/or their change are displayed in animated fashion on the at least one output device.

Information device, preferably in a motor vehicle, and method for supplying information about vehicle data, in particular vehicle functions and their operation

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Braunschweig, Germany

Thorsten Bohnenberger