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：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：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：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：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：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：US08918252B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-23

申请号：US14312711

申请日：2014-06-24

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

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

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  H04N21/422 ,  G06F3/01 ,  B60R16/037 ,  G06F3/03 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/033

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 system for use in a vehicle, including a steering element situated opposite a driver seat in a vehicle, the steering element including a plurality of proximity sensors encased in the periphery of the steering element operable to detect hand gestures along the outer periphery of the steering element, an interactive deck housed in the vehicle, for providing at least one of radio broadcast, video broadcast, audio entertainment, video entertainment and navigational assistance in the vehicle, and a processor housed in the vehicle, coupled with the proximity sensors and the deck, operable to identify the hand gestures detected by the proximity sensors, and to control the deck in response to thus-identified hand gestures.

Abstract translation: 一种用于车辆的系统，包括位于车辆中的驾驶员座椅相对的操纵元件，所述操舵元件包括被包围在所述操舵元件周围的多个接近传感器，所述接近传感器可操作以检测沿着所述转向器的外周的手势 元件，位于车辆中的交互式甲板，用于在车辆中提供无线电广播，视频广播，音频娱乐，视频娱乐和导航辅助中的至少一个，以及容纳在车辆中的处理器，与接近传感器和甲板 ，可操作以识别由接近传感器检测到的手势，并响应于如此识别的手势来控制甲板。

公开(公告)号：US20140303841A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-09

申请号：US14312711

申请日：2014-06-24

Applicant: Neonode Inc.

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

IPC: H04N21/422

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 system for use in a vehicle, including a steering element situated opposite a driver seat in a vehicle, the steering element including a plurality of proximity sensors encased in the periphery of the steering element operable to detect hand gestures along the outer periphery of the steering element, an interactive deck housed in the vehicle, for providing at least one of radio broadcast, video broadcast, audio entertainment, video entertainment and navigational assistance in the vehicle, and a processor housed in the vehicle, coupled with the proximity sensors and the deck, operable to identify the hand gestures detected by the proximity sensors, and to control the deck in response to thus-identified hand gestures.

Abstract translation: 一种用于车辆的系统，包括位于车辆中的驾驶员座椅相对的操纵元件，所述操舵元件包括被包围在所述操舵元件周围的多个接近传感器，所述接近传感器可操作以检测沿着所述转向器的外周的手势 元件，位于车辆中的交互式甲板，用于在车辆中提供无线电广播，视频广播，音频娱乐，视频娱乐和导航辅助中的至少一个，以及容纳在车辆中的处理器，与接近传感器和甲板 ，可操作以识别由接近传感器检测到的手势，并响应于如此识别的手势来控制甲板。