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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Axel Platz, München, DE;
Sonja Sander, München, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, , DE;
Abstract
A user interface, computer program, computer readable media and method arranges displays on a lateral surface of a cylinder, which displays can be easily viewed and selected by rotation about the axis of rotation of the cylinder. A user operates an input element for this purpose. A drive rotates the lateral surface containing the displays according to the user's inputs. In addition to this exemplary embodiment of a mechanical arrangement, a user interface is also proposed which visualizes the displays and the lateral surface only virtually as graphical objects on a graphical user interface. The rotation of the displays is now output as an animation on the graphical user interface. This affords the advantage that a visualization is provided which images a mental model of the user on the graphical user interface and simultaneously increases the user's attention by means of the animation.