Patent ID: 9594472
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B60K,G01C,G06F

Claim:
1. A method for providing a user interface coupled to a processor, in a vehicle, the method comprising: displaying at least one graphical object for interaction in a display area of the user interface outside the user's reach; detecting a user's gesture in a detection space which is spatially separate from the display area such that the detection space is within the user's reach; selecting a graphical object of the at least one graphical object for interaction via the processor; and carrying out an interaction associated with the gesture using the selected graphical object via the processor, wherein one or more position(s) adopted by the selected graphical object in the display area during interaction are outside the user's reach, wherein the position of the selected object provided for interaction in the display area is independent of the area in the detection space in which the gesture was detected, and gestures are detected in the detection space without user approach to the selected object, wherein the method further comprises: detecting a first phase of the gesture on a touch-sensitive surface within the detection space in the user's reach; determining, in the first phase of the gesture, a contact zone based on the gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, and selecting the object based on the determined contact zone on the touch-sensitive surface; and contactlessly detecting a second phase of the gesture within the detection space, wherein the trajectories of the first and second phases of the gesture are associated with one another to interact with the display area of the user interface outside the user's reach.