公开(公告)号：US20210349569A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-11

申请号：US17385260

申请日：2021-07-26

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Sairam Iyer ,  Tom Richard Berglind ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren ,  John Elis Gösta Karlsson ,  Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Björn Alexander Jubner ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Simon Greger Fellin ,  Robin Kjell Åman ,  Joseph Shain

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G01S17/48 ,  G01J1/04 ,  G01J1/42 ,  G06F3/03 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G01S17/88 ,  G01S7/481 ,  A63F13/26 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/92 ,  G01S17/04 ,  A63F13/21 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F9/24 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A sensor determining coordinates of a proximal object, including a one-dimensional array of alternating light emitters and detectors, including a plurality of light emitters projecting light along a detection plane, and a plurality of light detectors detecting reflections of the projected light, by a reflective object in the detection plane, and a plurality of lenses mounted and oriented relative to the emitters and the detectors such that the light detectors receive maximum intensity when light enters a corresponding lens at a first particular angle, whereby for each emitter-detector pair, light emitted by the emitter of that pair passes through one of the lenses and is reflected by the object back through one of the lenses to the detector of that pair when the object is located at one of a set of positions in the detection plane, that position being associated with that emitter-detector pair.

公开(公告)号：US10802601B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US16694018

申请日：2019-11-25

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Björn Alexander Jubner ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Håkan Sven Erik Andersson ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Gunnar Martin Fröjdh ,  Jan Tomas Hartman ,  Per Oscar Sverud ,  Sangtaek Kim ,  Rasmus Dahl-Örn ,  Tom Richard Berglind ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren ,  John Elis Gösta Karlsson ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Robin Kjell Åman ,  Joseph Shain

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0488

Abstract: A sensor, including light emitters projecting directed light beams, light detectors interleaved with the light emitters, lenses, each lens oriented relative to a respective one of the light detectors such that the light detector receives maximum intensity when light enters the lens at an angle b, whereby, for each emitter E, there exist corresponding target positions p(E, D) along the path of the light from emitter E, at which an object located at any of the target positions reflects the light projected by emitter E towards a respective one of detectors D at angle b, and a processor storing a reflection value R(E, D) for each co-activated emitter-detector pair (E, D), based on an amount of light reflected by an object located at p(E, D) and detected by detector D, and calculating a location of an object based on the reflection values and target positions.

公开(公告)号：US20200167034A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-28

申请号：US16775057

申请日：2020-01-28

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Sven Robert Pettersson ,  Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Per Erik Lindström ,  Emil Anders Braide ,  Jonas Daniel Justus Hjelm ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G09G5/00

Abstract: A sensor including lenses, light emitters, each emitter projecting light out of a lens in a particular emission direction along a detection plane, light detectors, each detector detecting maximum light intensity when light enters a lens at a particular detection angle, a table of hotspots, each hotspot corresponding to an emitter-detector pair, the hotspot being a two-dimensional location in the detection plane along the emission direction of the emitter of the pair where projected light reflected by an object placed at that location, enters the lens for the detector of the pair at the detection angle of the detector, and a processor receiving outputs from the detectors corresponding to detected amounts of projected light reflected by an object in the detection plane, and calculating a two-dimensional location of the object in the detection plane based on the received outputs and based on hotspots for synchronously activated emitter-detector pairs.

公开(公告)号：US20200150823A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-14

申请号：US16739142

申请日：2020-01-10

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Sairam Iyer ,  Tom Richard Berglind ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren ,  John Elis Gösta Karlsson ,  Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Björn Alexander Jubner ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Simon Greger Fellin ,  Robin Kjell Åman ,  Joseph Shain

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G01S17/48 ,  G01J1/04 ,  G01J1/42 ,  G06F3/03 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G01S17/88 ,  G01S7/481 ,  A63F13/26 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/92 ,  G01S17/04 ,  A63F13/21 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F9/24 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A sensor including multiple sensor modules and a processor, each sensor module including lenses, light detectors, each detector positioned along the image plane of a lens so as to receive maximum light intensity when light enters the lens at a particular angle, light emitters, each emitter being positioned in relation to a lens so as to project light into a detection zone, an activating unit synchronously co-activating each emitter with at least one of the detectors, and a calculating unit receiving outputs from the detectors corresponding to amounts of projected light reflected by an object in the detection zone to the detectors, and calculating a two-dimensional location of the object in the detection zone based on the detector outputs and the particular angle, wherein neighboring modules monitor different detection zones, and the processor receiving outputs from the sensor modules and mapping the object location in multiple detection zones over time.

公开(公告)号：US20180181209A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-28

申请号：US15898585

申请日：2018-02-18

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Alexander Jubner ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Håkan Sven Erik Andersson ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Gunnar Martin Fröjdh ,  Simon Greger Fellin ,  Jan Tomas Hartman ,  Per Oscar Sverud ,  Sangtaek Kim ,  Rasmus Dahl-Örn ,  Richard Tom Berglind ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren ,  John Elis Gösta Karlsson ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Robin Kjell Åman ,  Joseph Shain ,  Oskar Bertil Hagberg ,  Joel Verner Rozada

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F1/16

CPC classification number: G06F3/017 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/0428 ,  G06F3/04883

Abstract: A proximity sensor including a housing, light emitters mounted in the housing for projecting light out of the housing along a detection plane, light detectors mounted in the housing for detecting amounts of light entering the housing along the detection plane, whereby for each emitter-detector pair (E, D), when an object is located at a target position p(E, D) in the detection plane, corresponding to the pair (E, D), then the light emitted by emitter E is scattered by the object and is expected to be maximally detected by detector D, and a processor to synchronously activate emitter-detector pairs, to read the detected amounts of light from the detectors, and to calculate a location of the object in the detection plane from the detected amounts of light, in accordance with a detection-location relationship that relates detections from emitter-detector pairs to object locations between neighboring target positions in the detection plane.

公开(公告)号：US20230325065A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-12

申请号：US18316481

申请日：2023-05-12

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Björn Alexander Jubner ,  Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Gunnar Martin Fröjdh ,  Simon Greger Fellin ,  Stefan Johannes Holmgren

IPC: G06F3/04847 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  B62D1/04 ,  B60K37/06 ,  G06F3/04883

CPC classification number: G06F3/04847 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  B62D1/046 ,  B60K37/06 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  B62D1/04 ,  G06F3/033

Abstract: A vehicle autonomous drive system including a steering wheel, a sensor operable to identify each gesture component within a set of gesture components performed on the steering wheel by a driver of the vehicle, the set of gesture components including thumb-tap, thumb touch-and-hold, thumb-glide, hand-grab and hand-tap, a processor for an autonomous drive system in the vehicle, receiving from the sensor, a series of time-stamped, contact coordinates for the gesture components identified by the sensor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to construct compound gestures based on the series of time-stamped, contact coordinates, and to activate features of the autonomous drive system in response to the compound gestures.

公开(公告)号：US11782557B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US17176033

申请日：2021-02-15

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Sven Robert Pettersson ,  Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Per Erik Lindström ,  Emil Anders Braide ,  Jonas Daniel Justus Hjelm ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G09G5/00

CPC classification number: G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/013 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G09G5/00 ,  G06F2203/04103 ,  G06F2203/04104

Abstract: A method for interacting with controls in a graphical user interface (GUI) having a plurality of GUI controls, the method includes identify one GUI control that a user is gazing at, from among a plurality of GUI controls presented on a display, detect user interface gestures performed by the user, when the detected gesture is performed in an airspace away from the display, apply a relative motion corresponding to the gesture to the identified GUI control, and when the detected gesture is performed by the user touching the display, apply a sequence of absolute display locations touched by the gesture to a GUI control presented at the touched locations that is different than the identified GUI control.

公开(公告)号：US20200089326A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16694018

申请日：2019-11-25

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Björn Alexander Jubner ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Håkan Sven Erik Andersson ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Gunnar Martin Fröjdh ,  Jan Tomas Hartman ,  Per Oscar Sverud ,  Sangtaek Kim ,  Rasmus Dahl-Örn ,  Tom Richard Berglind ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren ,  John Elis Gösta Karlsson ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Robin Kjell Åman ,  Joseph Shain

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0488

Abstract: A sensor, including light emitters projecting directed light beams, light detectors interleaved with the light emitters, lenses, each lens oriented relative to a respective one of the light detectors such that the light detector receives maximum intensity when light enters the lens at an angle b, whereby, for each emitter E, there exist corresponding target positions p(E, D) along the path of the light from emitter E, at which an object located at any of the target positions reflects the light projected by emitter E towards a respective one of detectors D at angle b, and a processor storing a reflection value R(E, D) for each co-activated emitter-detector pair (E, D), based on an amount of light reflected by an object located at p(E, D) and detected by detector D, and calculating a location of an object based on the reflection values and target positions.

公开(公告)号：US10585530B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US15616106

申请日：2017-06-07

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Sven Robert Pettersson ,  Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Per Erik Lindström ,  Emil Anders Braide ,  Jonas Daniel Justus Hjelm ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G09G5/00

Abstract: A method for identifying a proximal object, including providing light emitters, light detectors and lenses, mounted in a housing, each lens, denoted L, being positioned in relation to a respective one of the detectors, denoted D, such that light entering lens L is maximally detected at detector D when the light enters lens L at an angle of incidence θ, activating the detectors synchronously with activation of each emitter to measure reflections of the light beams emitted by each emitter, and calculating a location of a reflective object along a path of a light beam projected by an activated emitter, by calculating an axis of symmetry with respect to which the outputs of the synchronously activated detectors are approximately symmetric, orienting the calculated axis of symmetry by the angle θ, and locating a point of intersection of the path of the emitted light beam with the oriented axis of symmetry.

公开(公告)号：US10534479B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-14

申请号：US15990587

申请日：2018-05-25

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Sairam Iyer ,  Tom Richard Berglind ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Erik Anders Claes Rosengren ,  John Elis Gösta Karlsson ,  Björn Thomas Eriksson ,  Björn Alexander Jubner ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Simon Greger Fellin ,  Robin Kjell Åman ,  Joseph Shain

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G01S17/48 ,  G01J1/04 ,  G01J1/42 ,  G06F3/03 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G01S17/02 ,  G01S17/88 ,  G01S7/481 ,  A63F13/26 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/92 ,  A63F13/21 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F9/24 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F13/211 ,  A63F13/33 ,  A63F13/428

Abstract: A proximity sensor, including a housing, an array of lenses mounted in the housing, an array of alternating light emitters and light detectors mounted in the housing, each detector being positioned along the image plane of a respective one of the lenses so as to receive maximum light intensity when light enters the lens at a particular angle, an activating unit mounted in the housing and connected to the emitters and detectors, synchronously co-activating each emitter with at least one of the detectors, each activated emitter projecting light out of the housing along a detection plane, and a processor receiving outputs from the detectors corresponding to amounts of projected light reflected by an object in the detection plane to the detectors, and calculating a two-dimensional location of the object in the detection plane based on the detector outputs and the particular angle.