公开(公告)号：US20210223906A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-22

申请号：US17198273

申请日：2021-03-11

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Eriksson ,  Alexander Jubner ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Stefan Holmgren ,  Lars Sparf ,  Bengt Henry Hjalmar Edlund ,  Richard Berglind

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

Abstract: An optical assembly including a reflectance-based sensor emitting light into a detection plane and detecting reflections of the emitted light, reflected by an object located in the detection plane, a light redirector positioned away from the sensor redirecting light emitted by the sensor into one or more spatial planes parallel to the detection plane and, when the object is located in the one or more spatial planes, redirecting light reflected by the object into the detection plane, and a processor controlling light emitted by the sensor and receiving outputs from the sensor, and configured such that when an object passes through one or more of the spatial planes, the processor identifies both the spatial planes through which the object passes, and the location of the object within the spatial planes through which it passes, based on the received outputs and the position of the light redirector relative to the sensor.

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：US20170262134A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-14

申请号：US15588646

申请日：2017-05-07

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Eriksson ,  Alexander Jubner ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Stefan Holmgren ,  Lars Sparf ,  Bengt Henry Hjalmar Edlund ,  Richard Berglind

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F2203/04102 ,  G06F2203/04103 ,  G06F2203/04104 ,  G09G2380/02

Abstract: A flexible touch surface, emitters projecting light beams across the surface such that the beams are incident upon and reflected by the surface when crossing the surface, detectors detecting reflections, by an object on the surface, of projected beams, lenses oriented such that there is a particular angle of entry at which each detector receives a maximal light intensity when beams enter a lens corresponding to the detector at the angle of entry, and such that there are target positions on the surface whereby for each emitter-detector pair, when the object is located at a target position associated with the pair, then light beams emitted by the emitter of the pair are reflected by the object into the lens corresponding to the detector of the pair at the angle of entry, and a processor synchronously co-activating emitter-detector pairs and calculating a location of the object on the surface.

公开(公告)号：US09092093B2

公开(公告)日：2015-07-28

申请号：US14590010

申请日：2015-01-06

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

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

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  G06F3/042 ,  B62D1/04 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/033

CPC classification number: G06F3/04847 ,  B60K37/06 ,  B60K2350/1012 ,  B60K2350/1036 ,  B60K2350/928 ,  B62D1/04 ,  B62D1/046 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  G06F3/0487 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F2203/0339 ,  H04M2250/22

Abstract: A steering wheel that identifies gestures performed on its surface, including a circular gripping element including a thumb-receiving notch disposed along its circumference, an array of light-based proximity sensors, mounted in the gripping element, that projects light beams through the notch radially outward from the gripping element, and detects light beams reflected back into the gripping element by a moving object at or near the notch, and a processor, coupled with the proximity sensor array, for determining polar angles along the circumference of the gripping element occupied by the object, responsive to light beams projected by the proximity sensor array and reflected back by the object being detected by the proximity sensor array.

Abstract translation: 一种方向盘，其识别在其表面上执行的手势，包括圆形夹持元件，包括沿着其圆周设置的拇指接收凹口，安装在夹持元件中的基于光的接近传感器的阵列，其将光束径向投射 并且通过由凹口处或附近的移动物体检测反射回到抓握元件中的光束，以及与接近传感器阵列耦合的处理器，用于确定沿着抓握元件的圆周的极角， 所述物体响应由所述接近传感器阵列投影并被所述物体反射回来的由所述接近传感器阵列检测的光束。

公开(公告)号：US10949027B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-16

申请号：US16365662

申请日：2019-03-26

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Eriksson ,  Alexander Jubner ,  Rozita Teymourzadeh ,  Stefan Holmgren ,  Lars Sparf ,  Bengt Henry Hjalmar Edlund ,  Richard Berglind

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

Abstract: An interactive mid-air display including a display that presents a graphical user interface (GUI), optics projecting and rotating the GUI above the display such that the GUI is visible in-air in a plane rotated away from the display, a sensor including light emitters projecting beams towards the projected GUI, light detectors detecting reflections of the beams by objects interacting with the projected GUI, and a lens structure maximizing detection at each detector for light entering the lens structure at a respective location at a specific angle θ, whereby for each emitter-detector pair, maximum detection of light corresponds to the object being at a specific location in the projected GUI, in accordance with the locations of the emitter and detector and the angle θ, and a processor mapping detections of light for emitter-detector pairs to corresponding locations in the projected GUI, and translating the mapped locations to coordinates on the display.

公开(公告)号：US20180296915A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-18

申请号：US15990587

申请日：2018-05-25

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Stefan Holmgren ,  Sairam Iyer ,  Richard Berglind ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Lars Sparf ,  Per Rosengren ,  Erik Rosengren ,  John Karlsson ,  Thomas Eriksson ,  Alexander Jubner ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Simon Fellin ,  Robin Kjell Åman ,  Joseph Shain

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

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.

公开(公告)号：US20170308281A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-26

申请号：US15647693

申请日：2017-07-12

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

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

IPC: G06F3/0484 ,  B60K37/06 ,  B62D1/04 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/0487 ,  G06F3/033

CPC classification number: G06F3/04847 ,  B60K37/06 ,  B60K2350/1012 ,  B60K2350/1036 ,  B60K2350/928 ,  B62D1/04 ,  B62D1/046 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  G06F3/0487 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F2203/0339 ,  H04M2250/22

Abstract: A user interface for a vehicle, including a steering wheel for the vehicle, including a grip, a sensor operable to detect objects at a plurality of locations along the grip, and an illuminator operable to illuminate different portions of the grip, a processor in communication with the sensor, with the illuminator and with a controller of vehicle functions, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which cause the processor: to identify, via the sensor, a location of a first object along the grip, to illuminate, via the illuminator, a portion of the grip, adjacent to the identified location, to further identify, via the sensor, a second object being at the illuminated portion of the grip, and to activate, via the controller, a vehicle function in response to the second object identified as being at the illuminated portion of the grip.

公开(公告)号：USD776666S1

公开(公告)日：2017-01-17

申请号：US29516687

申请日：2015-02-05

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Designer： John Karlsson ,  Lars Sparf ,  Alexander Jubner ,  Thomas Eriksson

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.

Inventor： Thomas Eriksson ,  Alexander Jubner ,  John Karlsson ,  Lars Sparf ,  Saska Lindfors ,  Robert Pettersson

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F2203/04103 ,  G06F2203/04104

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。

公开(公告)号：US20190258389A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-22

申请号：US16365657

申请日：2019-03-26

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

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

IPC: G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/01 ,  B60K37/06 ,  B62D1/04 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041

Abstract: A vehicle user interface including a vehicle steering wheel including a grip, a sensor mounted in the steering wheel grip detecting objects touching the steering wheel grip, a plurality of individually activatable illumination units illuminating respective locations on the steering wheel grip, and a processor receiving outputs from the sensor, selectively activating a subset of the illumination units adjacent to a detected object, and controlling a plurality of vehicle functions in response to outputs of the sensor.