公开(公告)号：US20240118771A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-11

申请号：US18532390

申请日：2023-12-07

Applicant: NEONODE INC.

Inventor： Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Jan Tomas Hartman ,  Tom Richard Berglind ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Jonas Daniel Justus Hjelm ,  Jon Elis Gõsta Karlsson ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Gunnar Martin Frõjdh ,  Joseph Shain ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Clarence Ray King, III ,  Oscar Ritzén Praglowski de Radwan

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G01V8/20 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F3/0421 ,  G01V8/20 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F2203/04108

Abstract: A proximity sensor including a structure suspending at least one lens above a circuit board, light emitters operable to project light beams through the lens along a common projection plane, light detectors operable to detect amounts of light arriving through the lens at the detector, wherein an object in the projection plane reflects light from an emitter to one or more of the detectors, and wherein each emitter-detector pair, including one of the emitters and one of the detectors, when synchronously activated, is expected to generate a greater detection signal at the activated detector than the other detectors, were they to be synchronously activated with any of the emitters, when the object is located at a specific 2D location in the projection plane corresponding to the emitter-detector pair, and a processor identifying gestures performed by the object based on amounts of light detected by the detector of each emitter-detector pair.

公开(公告)号：US11842014B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-12

申请号：US17788456

申请日：2020-12-30

Applicant: NEONODE INC.

Inventor： Stefan Johannes Holmgren ,  Jan Tomas Hartman ,  Tom Richard Berglind ,  Lars Bertil Sparf ,  Jonas Daniel Justus Hjelm ,  John Elis Gõsta Karlsson ,  Per Carl Sture Rosengren ,  Gunnar Martin Frõjdh ,  Joseph Shain ,  Xiatao Wang ,  Clarence Ray King, III ,  Oscar Ritzén Praglowski de Radwan

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G01V8/20 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G06F3/0421 ,  G01V8/20 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F2203/04108

Abstract: A proximity sensor, including light emitters and light detectors mounted on a circuit board, two stacked lenses, positioned above the emitters and the detectors, including an extruded cylindrical lens and a Fresnel lens array, wherein each emitter projects light through the two lenses along a common projection plane, wherein a reflective object located in the projection plane reflects light from one or more emitters to one or more detectors, and wherein each emitter-detector pair, when synchronously activated, generates a greatest detection signal at the activated detector when the reflective object is located at a specific 2D location in the projection plane corresponding to the emitter-detector pair, and a processor sequentially activating the emitters and synchronously co-activating one or more detectors, and identifying a location of the object in the projection plane, based on amounts of light detected by the detector of each synchronously activated emitter-detector pair.

公开(公告)号：US20230384895A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-30

申请号：US18346263

申请日：2023-07-02

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 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  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

CPC classification number: G06F3/0421 ,  G01S17/48 ,  G01J1/0411 ,  G01J1/42 ,  G06F3/0304 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F3/0428 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/021 ,  G06F3/0219 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G01S17/88 ,  G01S7/4811 ,  G01S7/4813 ,  G01S7/4815 ,  A63F13/26 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/92 ,  G01S17/04 ,  A63F13/21 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/31 ,  A63F9/24 ,  G06F3/017 ,  A63F13/211

Abstract: An optical method for identifying locations of objects in a plane, including serially projecting light beams along a detection area, from a plurality of locations along an edge of the detection area, whereby a reflective object inserted into the detection area reflects the projected light beams, directing the reflections of the projected light beams arriving at the edge of the detection area onto a plurality of light detectors, in a manner that maximizes amounts of reflected light arriving at the detectors when the light arrives at a particular angle in relation to the edge, and calculating two-dimensional coordinates of the inserted object in the detection area based on the particular angle and the outputs of the detectors.

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：US20160011715A1

公开(公告)日：2016-01-14

申请号：US14859369

申请日：2015-09-21

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Remo Behdasht ,  Richard Henriksson ,  Thomas Eriksson ,  Joseph Shain ,  Anders Jansson ,  Niklas Kvist ,  Robert Pettersson ,  Lars Sparf ,  John Karlsson

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/045 ,  G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/044

CPC classification number: G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0414 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/0425 ,  G06F3/0428 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/045 ,  G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F2203/04104 ,  G06F2203/04105 ,  G06F2203/04106 ,  G06F2203/04806 ,  G06F2203/04808

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of an electronic device that includes a touch sensitive and pressure sensitive display, cause the processor to enable a user interface of the electronic device, by which a glide gesture along the display and an amount of pressure applied to the display both generate the same user interface command.

公开(公告)号：US20140146249A1

公开(公告)日：2014-05-29

申请号：US14160751

申请日：2014-01-22

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Stefan Holmgren ,  Lars Sparf ,  John Karlsson ,  Anders Jansson ,  Thomas Eriksson ,  Joseph Shain ,  Niklas Kvist ,  Robert Pettersson

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  F21V8/00

CPC classification number: G06F3/0421 ,  B60K37/06 ,  G02B6/0001 ,  G02B6/0008 ,  G02B6/32 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1643 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F2203/04104 ,  G06F2203/04806 ,  G06F2203/04808

Abstract: A light-based touch-sensitive surface, including a housing, a surface attached to the housing for receiving touch input, a plurality of light sources in the housing for emitting light that crosses the surface, a plurality of light receivers in the housing for detecting the light emitted by the light sources, a curved lens adjacent to the surface through which the light emitted by the light sources passes, including two substantially similarly curved exterior panels, one of which forms a curved rim for the surface, and a calculating unit in said housing, connected to the light receivers, for calculating a touch location based on an absence of light expected to be received by the receivers.

Abstract translation: 一种基于光的触摸敏感表面，包括壳体，附接到外壳的接收触摸输入的表面，用于发射穿过表面的光的壳体中的多个光源，用于检测的壳体中的多个光接收器 由光源发射的光，与光源发射的光通过的表面相邻的弯曲透镜，包括两个基本相似的弯曲的外部面板，其中一个形成用于表面的弯曲边缘，以及计算单元 所述壳体连接到光接收器，用于基于预期由接收器接收的光的不存在来计算触摸位置。

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：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.

公开(公告)号：US10004985B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-26

申请号：US14880231

申请日：2015-10-11

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

CPC classification number: A63F13/31 ,  A63F9/24 ,  A63F13/21 ,  A63F13/211 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/26 ,  A63F13/33 ,  A63F13/355 ,  A63F13/428 ,  A63F13/92 ,  A63F2009/245 ,  G01J1/0411 ,  G01J1/42 ,  G01S7/4811 ,  G01S7/4813 ,  G01S7/4815 ,  G01S17/026 ,  G01S17/48 ,  G01S17/88 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F3/017 ,  G06F3/021 ,  G06F3/0219 ,  G06F3/0304 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/0428 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F2203/04809

Abstract: A system including two handheld electronic devices, each device including a housing, a communicator mounted in the housing continuously receiving images from an internet server, a display mounted in the housing, and a sensor mounted in the housing and connected to the communicator, configured to detect sizes of objects in an adjacent detection zone, and including an analyzer recognizing the other handheld electronic device when the sensor detects that an object in the adjacent detection zone is as long as an edge of the housing, wherein the server receives outputs from the analyzer and partitions each of the images into two half-images, and continuously transmits one of each half-image to the handheld electronic device and the other of each half-image to the other handheld device, such that each full image spans the two device displays.

公开(公告)号：US09411430B2

公开(公告)日：2016-08-09

申请号：US14016076

申请日：2013-08-31

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

Inventor： Stefan Holmgren ,  Lars Sparf ,  Remo Behdasht ,  Thomas Eriksson ,  Michael Elyan ,  Joseph Shain ,  Anders Jansson ,  Robert Pettersson ,  John Karlsson

IPC: G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/03 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/0488

CPC classification number: G06F3/0308 ,  G06F1/1616 ,  G06F1/1643 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F3/0421 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F2203/04806 ,  G06F2203/04808

Abstract: A method for use by a touch screen in which light transmitted inside the screen is scattered by an object touching the screen from outside the screen, the method including activating emitter-receiver pairs for a plurality of emitters and receivers while an object is touching a screen from outside the screen, wherein light emitted by each emitter is transmitted inside the screen, wherein each emitter is associated with a limited number of receivers that detect significant light from such emitter while no object is touching the screen, and wherein the activated emitter-receiver pairs include pairs for which the receiver is not associated with the emitter in the pair, determining that receivers not associated with emitters detect significant light due to the object scattering the light emitted by the emitters, and deriving the location where the object is touching the screen from the determining.

Abstract translation: 一种触摸屏使用的方法，其中透射在屏幕内的光被屏幕外部触摸屏幕的物体散射，该方法包括在物体触摸屏幕的同时激活多个发射器和接收器的发射器 - 接收器对 从屏幕外部，其中由每个发射器发射的光在屏幕内传输，其中每个发射器与有限数量的接收器相关联，所述接收器在没有物体接触屏幕的情况下检测来自该发射器的重要光，并且其中激活的发射器 - 接收器 对包括接收器不与该对中的发射器相关联的对，确定与发射器不相关联的接收器由于物体散射由发射器发射的光而检测到有效的光，并且导出对象接触屏幕的位置 从确定。