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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2015
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Tahar Bouaziz, Ingolstadt, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
An operator controls a combination instrument of a vehicle where the combination instrument has a display device for displaying a piece of information. Also in the vehicle are a bracket for detachably holding a mobile electronic apparatus, an interface for transmitting signals to the mobile electronic apparatus and for identifying whether there is a mobile electronic apparatus in the bracket, and an operator control device for operator control of the mobile electronic apparatus. Additionally, a processing device is set up to automatically process operator control inputs on the operator control device for operator control of the combination instrument according to whether a mobile electronic apparatus is in the bracket.