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Light-based controls on a toroidal steering wheel

US9389710B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Neonode Inc. · SE

Inventors

Gunnar Martin Fröjdh · Tyresö, SE
Simon Fellin · Floda, SE
Thomas Eriksson · Stockholm, SE
John Karlsson · Brooklyn, US
Maria Hedin · Bromma, SE
Richard Berglind · Ayacucho, PE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 24, 2014
Grant date	Jul 12, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 24, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04M2250/22
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A steering wheel for a vehicle, including a toroidal steering wheel surrounding an airspace and mounted in a vehicle, an array of invisible-light emitters mounted in the steering wheel to project invisible light beams across the airspace, an array of light detectors mounted in the steering wheel to detect the invisible light beams projected by the invisible-light emitters, and to detect gestures inside the airspace that interrupt the invisible light beams projected by the invisible-light emitters, and a processor connected to the light detectors to identify the gestures inside the airspace detected by the light detectors, and to control an item of equipment mounted in the vehicle, in response to the thus-identified gestures inside the airspace.

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