The vehicle includes a display, a dial input device configured to receive a first input from a user, and a controller configured to control the display based on the first input, wherein the controller is configured to control the display to display a plurality of characters, a first indicator indicating one character among the plurality of characters, and a second indicator indicating at least one character not indicated by the first indicator among the plurality of characters, controls the display to change the characters indicated by the first indicator and the second indicator based on the first input, and determines the character indicated by the first indicator as the character selected by the user based on the second input.

A steering wheel input device includes a first steering switch disposed on a front face of a steering wheel and a second steering switch disposed on a rear face of the steering wheel. When the second steering switch is operated, an icon corresponding to the second steering switch is displayed on the first steering switch. The steering wheel input device allows various operations to be implemented. Furthermore, an operator can intuitively operate the steering wheel input device.

A vehicle user interface system including an operation device, a display device, and a control device, is provided. The operation device is positioned at a position where a driver operates, and inputting multiple operations. The display device displays a display image with using a windshield. The control device controls the display device to display multiple icons, which are selectable by operating the operation device. In a case where a selected icon, which has been selected among the multiple icons displayed by the display device, is distinguishably displayed, the control device controls the display device to display an operation display image and the selected icon. The operation display image indicates one of the multiple operations to which a processing is assigned among the multiple operations.

An operating element to be installed in a center console of a motor vehicle includes at least two planar elements which are at least partially touch-sensitive such that an operator can trigger a function via a touch with a hand of the operator or at least one finger of the operator and a rotary element disposed between the at least two planar elements where a cylindrical surface of the rotary element is touch-sensitive.

The invention is a control device intended for the choice and the selection of functions in a vehicle. The device comprises three binary active sensors, arranged on an electronic board fixed in a case, the sensors switch on the passage of passive markers arranged on a support displaceable by means of a manipulable control element. The support being displaceable in translation along a first longitudinal main axis towards a front position and a rear position and perpendicularly along a second transversal main axis towards a right position and a left position, and in rotation about a normal axis perpendicular to the main axes in the clockwise direction and in the anticlockwise direction. The marker support and the control element are moreover connected to an indexing and return means which biases them permanently towards a neutral position.

A remote operation device includes a first operation acceptance portion provided as a mechanism to accept an operation from an outside and having a rotary dial supported in a displaceable and rotatable manner, a second operation acceptance portion formed of a touch panel provided on an outer surface of the rotary dial, and a control portion. The control portion accepts displacement of the rotary dial from a preliminarily determined neutral position as one operation from the outside, accepts a rotation angle of the rotary dial as one operation from the outside, and accepts an operation on the second operation acceptance portion as one operation from the outside. The control portion operates an in-vehicle device by remote control by transmitting contents of accepted operations to the in-vehicle device.

A screen-based operating system includes a housing having a screen accommodated therein and a rotary ring rotatably mounted to the housing. A first part of the rotary ring is mounted axially into the housing and a remaining second part of the rotary ring extends out of the housing and above the screen.

Provided is an engine control apparatus for construction machinery, including: an engine control dial manually operated by a user and configured to generate a control signal for increasing and decreasing revolutions per minute (rpm) of an engine by a predetermined unit; a jog shuttle including a jog switch, which is manually rotated and pressed by the user, and configured to generate a selection signal for selecting or changing functions corresponding to various operation modes; an instrument panel configured to display operation information of various elements which the user requires while driving the construction machinery; an engine controller configured to control the engine to respond to the control signal generated by the engine control dial; and an equipment controller configured to receive either the control signal generated by the engine control dial or the control signal corresponding to the rotation and the press of the jog switch, and provide the engine controller with a value of an rpm of the engine corresponding to the received control signal among values of the rpms of the engine corresponding to the respective control signals.

A remote operation device includes a first operation acceptance portion having a rotary dial, a second operation acceptance portion provided along an outer periphery of the rotary dial and allowed to rotate separately from the rotary dial, and a control portion. When a relative position of a user's hand with respect to the first operation acceptance portion is at a covered position, the control portion switches the first operation acceptance portion and the second operation acceptance portion to a locked state and accepts an operation on the first operation acceptance portion. When the relative position of the user's hand with respect to the first operation acceptance portion is at an uncovered position, the control portion switches the first operation acceptance portion and the second operation acceptance portion to an unlocked state and accepts an operation on the second acceptance portion.