Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
  • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
  • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
  • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
  • G06F3/048—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
  • G06F3/0487—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
  • G06F3/0488—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
  • G06F3/04883—Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Definitions

• the invention relates to the field of man-machine interfaces comprising a touch-sensitive control surface, preferably the domain of the vehicle man-machine interfaces comprising a touch-sensitive control surface.
• man-machine interfaces are used to enable the user, for example a driver of a vehicle, to navigate in a menu tree allowing him to browse the functions of various automotive functions such as audio or multimedia,
• a man-machine interface incorporating a touch-sensitive control surface makes it possible to dispense with a control panel with
• 25 touch control is the accuracy required to activate an icon by support, accuracy not compatible with good driving safety of the vehicle which requires the driver's eyes is the least distracted and the least devious possible. The look will unfortunately be so much
• control touch surface is disposed far from the windshield bottom through which the driver watches the road.
• a man-machine interface comprising an integrated control surface in the center of the steering wheel of a vehicle. Slips of the user's finger, which are in themselves quite comfortable for the user and effective for the interface, allow the user to navigate on a screen page.
• the activation of the preselected icon is always done by pressing precisely located on the icon, which requires a consequent diversion of the eyes of the driver of the vehicle.
• the invention proposes rather to rely on some comfortable sliding for the user, as in the second prior art, but unlike the second prior art, in a limited number so that it remains comfortable for the user and remains simple to memorize . This is why, unlike the second prior art, a single slip can be shared by different functionalities, since this slip allows the activation of an associated icon only if it is displayed in the active screen page.
• the invention instead of associating a sliding direction with a feature and keeping that association regardless of the active screen page, the invention rather associates a sliding direction with a position on the active screen page, and retains that association regardless of the menu or functionality that is displayed on the active screen page, different menus and or different features being successively displayed over time at the same display screen position.
• a vehicle man-machine interface comprising a touch control surface enabling a user to activate different icons of a set of icons displayed on a screen page, for several corresponding sets of icons. at different levels in a menu tree, characterized in that the man-machine interface is structured so that: each icon of a set of icons can be activated by a simple sliding of a part of the hand of a user on the touch control surface; the different icons of a set of icons are associated with different orientation ranges of the direction of said sliding; the different icons of a set of icons are activatable only when said set of icons is displayed on the screen page.
• the screen page is the active screen page of the display screen.
• the orientation comprises the actual orientation of the sliding direction, but can also include the direction of travel of this sliding direction, the same sliding line can be traversed in one direction or the other.
• a vertical line can be traveled from bottom to top or from top to bottom, this corresponds to two different orientations, with two different sliding directions.
• all the icons of all the sets of icons are activatable by a simple sliding of the same part of the hand of a user. So, the man interface machine is more ergonomic, because the movements to be memorized by the user are fewer.
• all the icons of all the sets of icons can be activated by a simple sliding of a single finger of the hand of a user.
• This movement preferably performed with the fingertip, that is to say with the part of the finger that is opposite the nail, is simpler than sliding with several fingers or with another part of the hand.
• the orientation of the sliding direction is estimated by the man-machine interface when the part of the hand of a sliding user leaves the control surface.
• the movement is well finished, it is easier to evaluate the orientation without significant risk of error, especially for a little hesitant movements that would be either slow slips or curved slips seem to take a direction then recovering another.
• This increased tolerance with regard to the shape of the sliding made by the user makes the human-machine interface even more comfortable to use and even more reliable in terms of safety since the user needs even less or even no longer need to look at the touchpad. Indeed, the slip can be a little awkward or hesitant, the man-machine interface corrects itself.
• each set of icons has between 4 and 8 icons.
• a minimum of 4 icons allows the screen page to not be too poor.
• a maximum of 8 icons can be limited, for the user, to the main possible directions, namely the vertical, the horizontal, the two diagonals, each can be traveled in one direction or the other.
• each set of icons comprises 6 icons.
• the icons are preferably spread over two lines of three icons. It is a good compromise between the richness and the simplicity of the display, especially for display screens that are wider than they are tall, as are particularly the display screens at the bottom of the vehicle windshield.
• At least one of the orientation ranges of the sliding direction associated with an icon of each set of icons is a range of orientations whose average direction is oblique.
• at least four of the orientation ranges of the sliding direction associated with four icons of each set of icons are orientation ranges whose average direction is oblique.
• the oblique slide is especially convenient to integrate in his mind for the user without too much effort, because it is a slip that goes into a corner.
• the average directions of the orientation ranges associated with said icons respectively indicate the positions of said icons on the screen page.
• memorization is more natural, it is therefore faster, and remains reliable even during a moment of stress.
• a slide from the bottom right to the upper left on the touch control surface will activate the icon located in the top left corner of the display screen.
• a sliding up and down on the touch control surface will activate the icon located at the bottom middle of the display screen.
• arrows recalling the average directions of sliding associated with said icons are respectively displayed at the level of said icons on the screen page.
• the display screen of said icons is a touch screen whose display surface is also the control surface of the man-machine interface. Sliding can be performed in any area of the display screen, even outside the area where the icon activatable by this sliding is disposed on the display screen.
• control touch surface is offset relative to the display screen of said icons and the touch control surface does not display said icons.
• the separation of the parts touch control and visual display makes more critical the simplicity of the activation gestures, because any diversion of look will be longer and more delicate. But this separation is interesting because it allows to have the display screen in an area optimized for the eye of the user on the one hand and to have the touch control surface in another area optimized this time for the the user's hand on the other hand. Sliding can be performed in any area of the touch control surface, regardless of the layout of the icon that can be activated by this dragging on the display screen.
• the control touch surface can not display anything.
• the invention also relates to a vehicle cabin comprising a man-machine interface according to the invention, two front seats between which is located a central console carrying the control surface of said man-machine interface, and a dashboard above which is located the display screen of said icons of said man-machine interface.
• a vehicle cabin comprising a man-machine interface according to the invention, two front seats between which is located a central console carrying the control surface of said man-machine interface, and a dashboard above which is located the display screen of said icons of said man-machine interface.
• a human machine interface comprising a touch control surface allowing a user to activate different icons of a set of icons displayed on a screen page, for several sets of icons corresponding to different levels in a menu tree, characterized in that the human machine interface is structured such that: each icon of a set of icons is activatable by a simple sliding of a part of a user's hand on the surface control touch; the different icons of a set of icons are associated with different orientation ranges of the direction of said sliding; the different icons of a set of icons are activatable only when said set of icons is displayed on the screen page.
• the control touch surface is offset relative to the display screen of said icons and the touch control surface does not display said icons.
• a vehicle includes a truck, a car, a bus, a boat.
• a vehicle is preferably a motor vehicle, preferably terrestrial.
• a vehicle is preferably a car.
• FIG. 1 shows schematically an example of a man-machine interface according to the invention implanted in a vehicle cabin
• - Figure 2 schematically shows an example of use of a man-machine interface according to the invention implanted in a vehicle cabin
• FIG. 3 shows schematically an example of use of another man-machine interface according to the invention implanted in a vehicle cabin.
• FIG. 1 shows schematically an example of a man-machine interface according to the invention implanted in a vehicle cabin.
• the cabin of the vehicle comprises a dashboard 1 surmounted by a windshield 10.
• a steering wheel 3 is located behind the dashboard 1.
• a front center console 2 is located between the two front seats not shown here.
• the front center console 2 carries the control surface 5.
• a display screen 6 can be placed above the dashboard 1, at the bottom of the windshield 10, either above the steering wheel 3, or laterally staggered at the center front console 2.
• the eye 41 of a driver 4 looks through the windshield 10 or at the display screen 6, while his hand 42 makes slips on the touch control surface 5 to change the display of icons on the display screen 6.
• a dedicated button back to the root of the menu tree may have been provided in the form of an additional key 9 located outside the touch control surface 5.
• FIG. 2 diagrammatically represents an example of use of a human machine interface according to the invention implanted in a vehicle passenger compartment.
• the display screen 6 represents the icons 61 to 66, distributed in a matrix on two lines and three columns, respectively allowing access to six corresponding menus or to six corresponding functionalities, accompanied by their visual learning arrows 11 to 16.
• a sliding 51 from the bottom right to the upper left on the control surface 5 allows the activation of the icon 61 located at the top left on the display screen 6.
• a slip 52 from bottom to bottom high on the control 5 touch surface allows the activation of the icon 62 located at the top middle on the display screen 6.
• a sliding 53 from bottom left to top right on the touch surface of command 5 allows the activation of the icon 63 located at the top right on the display screen 6.
• a slide 54 from top right to bottom left on the control surface 5 allows the activation of the icon 64 located at the bottom left on the display screen 6.
• a sliding 55 from top to bottom on the control surface 5 allows the activation of the icon 65 located in the bottom middle on the display screen 6.
• a slide 56 from top left to bottom right on the control surface 5 allows the activation of the icon 66 situ lower right on the display screen 6.
• Figure 3 schematically shows an example of use of another man-machine interface according to the invention implanted in a vehicle cabin.
• two icons 67 and 68 have been added, respectively corresponding to page-changing functions, resulting in the display of six other icons corresponding to the menus or to the functionalities of a previous page when the icon 67 is activated, or causing six other icons corresponding to the menus or the features of a next page to be displayed when the icon 68 is activated.
• the icons 67 and 68 are 17 and 18.
• a sliding 57 from right to left on the control surface 5 allows the activation of the icon 67 located on the left center of the display screen 6.
• a slip 58 from left to right on the control surface 5 allows the activation of the icon 68 located at the middle right on the display screen 6.

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