Patent ID: 7848882
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: B60K,G06F

Abstract:
1. A vehicle-mounted man-machine interface device comprising: a display unit adapted to display a screen; a press position detection unit adapted to detect a press position on the screen; a control unit adapted to display, on said display unit, an operating screen on which a plurality of operating figures are arranged and for acquiring operation content specified by a press on the operating screen on the basis of arrangement positions of the operating figures, operations corresponding to the operating figures, and an output from said press position detection unit; and traveling detection unit adapted to detect whether or not a vehicle having the vehicle-mounted man-machine interface device is traveling or for detecting a traveling speed of the vehicle, wherein said control unit has a part for setting or altering one or both of the number of operating figures simultaneously displayed on the operating screen and sizes of the operating figures on the basis of an output from said traveling detection unit, wherein as the operating screen, said control unit displays an operating screen at the time of stopping on which a predetermined number of operating figures of predetermined sizes are arranged when the vehicle is not traveling and displays an operating screen at the time of traveling on which larger and fewer operating figures than the operating figures of the operating screen at the time of stopping are arranged when the vehicle is traveling the operating figures arranged on the operating screen at the time of traveling being some of the operating figures arranged on the operating screen at the time of stopping that are selected in consideration of a frequency of use of or need for each of the operating figures, and wherein said control unit displays, as the operating screen at the time of traveling, an operating screen in which an operating figure to be arranged is set according to a history of operation of each of the operating figures.