Patent ID: 7084748

Claim:
A communication device for communication along a communication path between control elements ( 18 , 20 , 22 , 24 ), which are actuated by a driver of a vehicle and emit control signals, and controlled devices ( 4 , 8 ) of the vehicle which receive the control signals and convert the control signals to responses in or on the controlled devices; wherein the control signals are transmitted in a wireless manner from the control elements ( 18 , 20 , 22 , 24 ) to the controlled devices ( 4 , 8 ) at least along a portion of the communication path, and one controlled device of the vehicle is the transmission control ( 8 ) for one of an automatic and automated transmission ( 6 ); and the communication path comprises a first portion and a second portion, and the first portion of the communication path is a wireless transmission between the control elements ( 18 , 20 , 22 , 24 ) and an interpolated electronic control device ( 10 ) which controls further processing of the control signals according to prescribed computation rules and, during the second portion of the communication path, relays the control signals to at least the transmission control ( 4 , 8 ).