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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2017
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Matthias Wunderlich, Ingolstadt, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
One, some or all of a specified number of multiple operating functions of an operating device can be selected by a user. Each operating function is assigned to a respective finger of a hand of the user in the operating device by a controller, and a detection device is used to detect a contact of at least one of the fingers of the hand on a specified contact surface of the operating device and ascertain which of the fingers of the hand is contacting the contact surface. Each of the operating functions whose assigned finger contacts the contact surface is determined as the user selection by a controller, and the user selection is signaled to a subsequent process of the operating device using selection data which identifies each selected operating function.