Mobile, portable operating device for operating a device wirelessly coupled to the operating device, and method for operating a device using a mobile, portable operating device

摘要

The invention relates to a mobile, portable operating device (10) for operating a device (28) wirelessly coupled to the operating device (10). The operating device (10) has a base body with only a single control element, which is designed as a touch panel (12) and forms an uninterrupted portion of a lateral surface of the base body, wherein the touch panel (12) extends over at least 50% of the lateral surface. The operating device (10) also has a control device (16) which is adapted to receive an operating signal from the touchpad (S6), based on the received operating signal an operating function of the device (28) from a plurality of operating functions of the device (28 ) (S8), and depending on the selected operating function, generate (S9) a control signal describing performing the selected operating function and transmit the generated control signal to the apparatus (28) (S10). The invention also relates to a method for operating a device using the mobile, portable operating device.