Input device

US9256318B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC · US

Inventors

• David Voss · Gerolzhofen, DE
• Joerg HEDRICH · Mainz, DE
• Marc FUERST · Gerolzhofen, DE
• Stefan Poppe · Darmstadt, DE
• Andreas Lang · Ettringen, DE
• Michael Wagner · Rimbach, DE
• Marius WRZESNIEWSKI · Darmstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2013
• Grant date: Feb 9, 2016
• Expiry date: Mar 11, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K2360/334
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An input device for controlling a device is provided. The input device comprises a sensor surface sensitive to being touched by a foreign body, and an evaluation unit, which is equipped to sense the positions of successively touched points of the sensor surface, and convert them into a control command for the device. The evaluation unit is connected to means for estimating an acceleration acting on the sensor surface and equipped, when converting into the control command, to weight a point touched at a time of intense acceleration change lower than a point touched at a time of slight acceleration change.