Cooking hob , comprising: - a cooking hob surface having a heating region for placing cooking vessels for heating, - a multiplicity of heating devices in the heating region under the cooking hob surface , wherein the heating devices have a regular arrangement in rows (HZ) and columns (HS), - pot detection means in the heating region for detecting a position and a size of the cooking vessels , - a display device having a display surface , wherein - the display device has elongated luminous segments which can be individually illuminated on the display surface , - the luminous segments are arranged in such a manner that they form fields in the display surface , - the fields are arranged in rows (AZ) and columns (AS)corresponding to the arrangement of the heating devices in the heating region with the same number of rows (HZ) and columns (HS), - a luminous segment runs in the intermediate space between two fields , - a display for presenting at least one arbitrary sign or arbitrary digit is arranged in each field , - a hob controller, characterized in that the hob controller is programmed and the hob controller is configured such that: - the pot detection means detect a cooking vessel placed on the heating region , the position thereof and the size thereof, - on the display device those luminous segments which form fields corresponding to those heating devices which are covered by the detected cooking vessel are illuminated, wherein these fields corresponding to these heating devices form an area and the luminous segments remain unilluminated or deactivated within this area. - a cooking hob surface having a heating region for placing cooking vessels for heating, - a multiplicity of heating devices in the heating region under the cooking hob surface , wherein the heating devices have a regular arrangement in rows (HZ) and columns (HS), - pot detection means in the heating region for detecting a position and a size of the cooking vessels , - a display device having a display surface , wherein - the display device has elongated luminous segments which can be individually illuminated on the display surface , - the luminous segments are arranged in such a manner that they form fields in the display surface , - the fields are arranged in rows (AZ) and columns (AS)corresponding to the arrangement of the heating devices in the heating region with the same number of rows (HZ) and columns (HS), - a luminous segment runs in the intermediate space between two fields , - a display for presenting at least one arbitrary sign or arbitrary digit is arranged in each field , - a hob controller, - the display device has elongated luminous segments which can be individually illuminated on the display surface , - the luminous segments are arranged in such a manner that they form fields in the display surface , - the fields are arranged in rows (AZ) and columns (AS)corresponding to the arrangement of the heating devices in the heating region with the same number of rows (HZ) and columns (HS), - a luminous segment runs in the intermediate space between two fields , - a display for presenting at least one arbitrary sign or arbitrary digit is arranged in each field , - a hob controller, - the pot detection means detect a cooking vessel placed on the heating region , the position thereof and the size thereof, - on the display device those luminous segments which form fields corresponding to those heating devices which are covered by the detected cooking vessel are illuminated, wherein these fields corresponding to these heating devices form an area and the luminous segments remain unilluminated or deactivated within this area. <EOS>