US 12,294,921 B2
Data exchange between a mobile terminal and a control module of a car wash for feedback of evaluation signals
Stefan Mayer, Neusaess (DE); Oliver Foerg, Augsburg (DE); and David Stecher, Monheim (DE)
Assigned to WashTec Holding GmbH, Augsburg (DE)
Filed by WashTec Holding GmbH, Augsburg (DE)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/055,746.
Claims priority of application No. 21208275 (EP), filed on Nov. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0156439 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/38 (2018.01); B60S 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)
CPC H04W 4/38 (2018.02) [B60S 3/063 (2013.01); B60S 3/066 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for evaluating a vehicle wash performed on a car wash, comprising the following method steps, which are at least partially performed on a mobile terminal:
providing a human-machine interface and a control interface to a control module of a washing system;
outputting fields on the human-machine interface used to detect at least one evaluation signal to evaluate the wash;
upon detection of a negative evaluation signal: reading in a generated interactive virtualized representation of the vehicle and outputting the same on the human-machine interface of the mobile terminal;
issuing a request on human-machine interface to activate the areas to be objected in the interactive virtualized representation by means of activation signals;
acquisition of the activation signals in the interactive virtualized representation;
reading in an identification of the objected areas on the vehicle based on the detected activation signals;
generating feedback signals for forwarding to the control module via the control interface, the feedback signals encoding the identified objected areas.