Patent ID: 6597367
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: B60K

Abstract:
A method for providing a graphic display of driver information in a motor vehicle, the driver information originating from a plurality of individual devices linked to each other via a bus, and the driver information being depicted as a foreground on a background of a common driver information display including a graphical user interface, the method comprising the steps of:performing a plurality of preselected calculating operations of a predetermined calculation regime in an external image processing device; storing a partial graphic bitmap corresponding to the driver information to be depicted and including associated &agr;-channels and corresponding results of the plurality of preselected calculating operations conducted in advance in a corresponding one of the plurality of individual devices; transmitting the partial graphic bitmap required in a specific case along with corresponding ones of the associated &agr;-channels from the plurality of individual devices via the bus to the common driver information display; combining the partial graphic bitmap required in the specific case and the background of the graphical user interface of the common driver information display, taking into account the corresponding associated &agr;-channels according to the predetermined calculating regime; and depicting a total result on the graphical user interface of the common driver information display.