公开(公告)号：US12032817B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

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 ,  B60K35/10 ,  B62D1/04 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  B60K35/60 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/0487

CPC classification number: G06F3/04847 ,  B60K35/10 ,  B62D1/04 ,  B62D1/046 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  B60K35/60 ,  B60K2360/141 ,  B60K2360/1446 ,  B60K2360/782 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/0487 ,  G06F2203/0339 ,  H04M2250/22

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：US20200348831A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-05

申请号：US16931735

申请日：2020-07-17

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

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

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

Abstract: A vehicle gesture control system to improve safety and comfort during driving of a vehicle, the vehicle including an adaptive cruise control or autonomous drive arrangement configured to control velocity of the vehicle and distance between the vehicle and another vehicle, the system including a plurality of sensors configured to detect gestures performed by a driver on the surface of a steering wheel grip in the vehicle, the steering wheel grip including a circular tube surrounding a steering wheel, and a processor receiving outputs from the sensors and connected to a memory unit storing instructions for the processor to activate a plurality of features of the adaptive cruise control or autonomous drive arrangement, in response to a respective plurality of different gestures detected by the sensors, one of the gestures including movement of the driver's thumb around a lateral section of the steering wheel grip that faces the driver.

公开(公告)号：US10719218B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-21

申请号：US16365657

申请日：2019-03-26

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

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

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

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.

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：US09678601B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-13

申请号：US14726533

申请日：2015-05-31

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Robert Pettersson ,  Per Rosengren ,  Erik Rosengren ,  Stefan Holmgren ,  Lars Sparf ,  Richard Berglind ,  Thomas Eriksson ,  Karl Erik Patrik Nordström ,  Gunnar Martin Fröjdh ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Remo Behdasht

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0354

CPC classification number: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/0425 ,  G06F3/0428 ,  G06F2203/04102 ,  G06F2203/04104 ,  G06F2203/04109

Abstract: Activating a plurality of light emitters and light detectors around a screen, each emitter-detector pair corresponding to a light path crossing the screen, wherein some of the light paths are blocked when one or more objects touch the screen, providing a look-up table, listing, for each cell from a plurality of cells, those light paths that traverse that cell when no object is touching the screen, wherein the cells partition the screen, for each cell: accessing the look-up table to identify those light paths that traverse that cell, determining whether the thus-identified light paths are blocked during the activating and, if affirmative, recognizing that cell as being a touched cell, and combining adjacent touched cells into a common touch location, thereby calculating one or more touch locations wherein each touch location is a combination of one or more constituent touched cells.

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.

Inventor： Gunnar Martin Fröjdh ,  Simon Fellin ,  Thomas Eriksson ,  John Karlsson ,  Maria Hedin ,  Richard Berglind

IPC: G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/042 ,  H04M1/725 ,  B62D1/04

CPC classification number: G06F3/04883 ,  B60K37/06 ,  B60K2350/1012 ,  B60K2350/1036 ,  B60K2350/928 ,  B60R16/037 ,  B62D1/046 ,  G01C21/3664 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/0304 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F2203/04808 ,  H04M1/72583 ,  H04M2250/22 ,  H04N21/42201

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。

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：US20180275865A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-27

申请号：US15992162

申请日：2018-05-29

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Gunnar Martin Fröjdh ,  Simon Fellin ,  Thomas Eriksson ,  John Karlsson ,  Maria Hedin ,  Richard Berglind

IPC: G06F3/0488 ,  B60K37/06 ,  G06F3/042 ,  H04N21/422 ,  B60R16/037 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G01C21/36 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  H04M1/725 ,  G06F3/03 ,  B62D1/04 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F3/04883 ,  B60K37/06 ,  B60K2370/141 ,  B60K2370/1446 ,  B60K2370/782 ,  B60R16/037 ,  B62D1/046 ,  G01C21/3664 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/0304 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F2203/04808 ,  H04M1/72583 ,  H04M2250/22 ,  H04N21/42201

Abstract: An adjustable mirror, including a mirror within a fixed housing, whereby at least one angle of the mirror relative to the housing is adjustable, electrical equipment within the housing and attached to the rear of the mirror, operative to adjust the at least one angle of the mirror, a rounded surface projecting toward an operator of the mirror, and a sensor, connected to the electrical equipment, operative to detect the operator's hand following the rounded surface, and to instruct the electrical equipment to adjust the at least one angle of the mirror in response to the detection.

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：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。