LIGHT-BASED CONTROLS IN A TOROIDAL STEERING WHEEL
    12.
    发明申请
    LIGHT-BASED CONTROLS IN A TOROIDAL STEERING WHEEL 审中-公开
    轮式转向轮中的基于光的控制

    公开(公告)号:US20160299681A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-10-13

    申请号:US15190705

    申请日:2016-06-23

    Applicant: Neonode Inc.

    Abstract: A steering wheel for a vehicle, including front and back semi-toroidal surfaces joined at their outer circumferences by a light guide in the shape of a circular rim, and enclosing a toroidal volume having a cavity therein, a PCB mounted in the cavity, an alternating array of invisible-light emitters and receivers mounted on the PCB, such that the light guide projects invisible-light beams emitted by the emitters radially outward of the steering wheel, and directs reflections of the projected light beams off of a driver's hands radially inward to the steering wheel toward the receivers, and a processor connected to equipment mounted away from the steering wheel, the processor synchronously activating each emitter with a respective neighboring receiver, identifying a driver's hand gestures along an arc of the light guide based on reflected light detected by the receivers, and controlling the equipment in response to the thus-identified hand gestures.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于车辆的方向盘,包括通过圆形边缘形状的导光体在其外圆周处连接的前后半圆形表面,并且包围其中具有空腔的环形体积,安装在腔中的PCB, 安装在PCB上的不可见光发射器和接收器的交替阵列,使得光导件将由发射器发射的不可见光发射到方向盘的径向外侧,并将投射光束的反射从驾驶员的手径向向内引导 并且连接到远离方向盘安装的设备的处理器,处理器使用相应的相邻接收器同步地激活每个发射器,基于检测到的反射光来识别驾驶员沿着光导的弧线的手势 并且响应于由此识别的手势控制设备。

    Integrated light guide and touch screen frame and multi-touch determination method
    15.
    发明授权
    Integrated light guide and touch screen frame and multi-touch determination method 有权
    集成光导和触摸屏框架和多点触摸确定方法

    公开(公告)号:US09207800B1

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-08

    申请号:US14588462

    申请日:2015-01-02

    Applicant: Neonode Inc.

    Abstract: A touch screen assembly including a glass screen, LEDs, photo diodes, a transparent plastic frame surrounding the screen, and a light guide that guides light emitted by the LEDs to the photo diodes along light paths that go under the frame on one side, over the screen, and under the frame on the opposite side, and a processor operative to selectively activate LEDs and photo diodes, to identify location of an object touching the screen, based on amounts of light detected by activated photo diodes when light emitted by activated LEDs is blocked along its light path by the object, and to recognize the object touching the frame, based on amounts of light detected by activated photo diodes when light emitted by activated LEDs is absorbed along its light path by the object, thereby providing light-based touch sensitivity to the screen and to the frame.

    Abstract translation: 包括玻璃屏,LED,光电二极管,围绕屏幕的透明塑料框架的触摸屏组件以及将LED发射的光沿着在一侧的框架下方的光路引导到光电二极管的导光体 屏幕,并且在相对侧的框架下方,以及处理器,其可操作以选择性地激活LED和光电二极管,以基于由激活的LED发射的光来激活的光电二极管检测到的光的量来识别触摸屏幕的位置 基于物体沿其光路被阻挡,并且基于由被激活的LED发射的光被物体沿着其光路吸收的激光光电二极管检测到的光量,识别接触到框架的物体,从而提供基于光的 触摸屏幕和框架的灵敏度。

    Integrated light guide and touch screen frame

    公开(公告)号:US09645679B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-09

    申请号:US14960369

    申请日:2015-12-05

    Applicant: Neonode Inc.

    Abstract: A touch screen assembly including a display, infra-red light emitters, photo diodes, a transparent frame including an exposed upper edge along its perimeter, and internally reflective facets for directing light emitted by the emitters along light paths that travel upward through one side of the frame, over the display screen, downward through the opposite side of the frame, and onto the photo diodes, and a processor operative to identify a location of an object touching the display, based on amounts of light detected by photo diodes when light emitted by light emitters is blocked along its light path by the object, and to recognize the object touching an outer wall of the frame, based on amounts of light detected by activated photo diodes when light emitted by activated emitters is absorbed along its light path by the object at the outer wall, thereby providing touch sensitivity to the frame itself.

    Optical touch screen using total internal reflection
    20.
    发明授权
    Optical touch screen using total internal reflection 有权
    光学触摸屏采用全内反射

    公开(公告)号:US09411430B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-09

    申请号:US14016076

    申请日:2013-08-31

    Applicant: Neonode Inc.

    Abstract: A method for use by a touch screen in which light transmitted inside the screen is scattered by an object touching the screen from outside the screen, the method including activating emitter-receiver pairs for a plurality of emitters and receivers while an object is touching a screen from outside the screen, wherein light emitted by each emitter is transmitted inside the screen, wherein each emitter is associated with a limited number of receivers that detect significant light from such emitter while no object is touching the screen, and wherein the activated emitter-receiver pairs include pairs for which the receiver is not associated with the emitter in the pair, determining that receivers not associated with emitters detect significant light due to the object scattering the light emitted by the emitters, and deriving the location where the object is touching the screen from the determining.

    Abstract translation: 一种触摸屏使用的方法,其中透射在屏幕内的光被屏幕外部触摸屏幕的物体散射,该方法包括在物体触摸屏幕的同时激活多个发射器和接收器的发射器 - 接收器对 从屏幕外部,其中由每个发射器发射的光在屏幕内传输,其中每个发射器与有限数量的接收器相关联,所述接收器在没有物体接触屏幕的情况下检测来自该发射器的重要光,并且其中激活的发射器 - 接收器 对包括接收器不与该对中的发射器相关联的对,确定与发射器不相关联的接收器由于物体散射由发射器发射的光而检测到有效的光,并且导出对象接触屏幕的位置 从确定。

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