Vehicular manipulation apparatus

摘要

A remote manipulation apparatus includes a main body and a manipulating handle manipulated by a user to move to cover all the orientations from a manipulation basis position defined on a basis of the main body. Movement of the manipulating handle relative to the manipulation basis position corresponds to movement of a pointer image relative to a screen basis position on a screen of a display apparatus. An auxiliary navigational display window includes a specified button image assigned with pointer-pulling information. When the auxiliary navigational display window appears on the screen, the manipulating handle is automatically driven to a position that corresponds to a position of the specified button image on the screen so that the pointer image is moved onto the specified button image that is assigned with the pointer-pulling information.

主权项

1. A vehicular manipulation apparatus to display a selector image and a display window on a screen of a display apparatus, the display window containing a button image to operate an in-vehicle apparatus, the vehicular manipulation apparatus moving the selector image to the button image to select the button image,
the vehicular manipulation apparatus comprising: a main body; a manipulating portion provided in the main body to be manipulated by a user to perform a movement to a manipulation position that is defined as a position relative to a manipulation basis position, the manipulation basis position being defined on a basis of the main body; a detector to detect a detected direction and a detected magnitude of the movement of the manipulating portion; a display control section to control a selector position of the selector image depending on the detected direction and the detected magnitude of the movement of the manipulating portion, the selector position being defined as a position on the screen relative to a screen basis position, the screen basis position being defined on a basis of the screen, the screen basis position corresponding to the manipulation basis position; a determination section to determine whether the display window appearing on the screen contains a specified button image that is a button image assigned with selector-pulling information indicating pulling of the selector image onto the specified button image; a drive section to drive the manipulating portion to permit an automatic movement of the manipulating portion to cause the manipulation position to correspond to a specified button position when it is determined that the display window appearing on the screen contains the specified button image, the specified button position being defined on the screen as a position of the specified button image relative to the screen basis position; and a stop section to stop the driving of the manipulating portion by the drive section during the automatic movement, when an external force is applied to the manipulating portion so as to prevent the manipulating portion from moving and cause a duration to exceed a predetermined time under a state where the manipulation position does not correspond to the specified button position of the specified button image assigned with the selector-pulling information.