Patent ID: 8997019
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G01C,G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for representing information on a display device of a vehicle, on which the information is representable in a form of a list having a first number of list entries, wherein a size of the display device is given and a type and size of a font are predefined, each list entry having a second number of maximally representable characters, the method comprising the acts of: for the first number of list entries currently to be represented on the display device, determining whether, in each case, two mutually successive list entries each have a number of characters that is greater than the second maximally representable number of characters of the respective list entry; in an affirmative case, comparing the second maximally representable number of characters of the mutually successive list entries with respect to distinctiveness; when an indistinctiveness of the two mutually successive list entries to be currently represented on the display device is determined, establishing on the display device a distinctiveness of the two mutually successive list entries, and wherein, for establishing the distinctiveness of the list entries that follow one another and cannot be distinguished in the area of the second number of characters, the concerned list entries are changed in their representation.