Jaguar Cars Limited

Peter Robert Thomas

Carl Pickering

Colin John Wilson

Richard Dean Parkinson

Ian Richard Thorp

A touch screen control system comprising a touch screen having first and second conductive layers arranged to be brought together by touching of the screen. A detection system is arranged to detect a contact position at which the screen is touched by monitoring electrical signals from at least one of the layers. The system further comprises an antenna, and the detection system includes a proximity sensing signal generator arranged to generate a proximity sensing signal to be transmitted between the antenna and the first layer via a user of the system. The detection system is further arranged to receive the transmitted proximity sensing signal and determine therefrom the distance between a part of the user and the touch screen.

Touch screens

A touch screen control system comprising a touch screen () having first () and second conductive layers () arranged to be brought together by touching of the screen (). A detection system () is arranged to detect a contact position at which the screen () is touched by monitoring electrical signals from at least one of the layers (). The system further comprises an antenna (), and the detection system includes a proximity sensing signal generator arranged to generate a proximity sensing signal to be transmitted between the antenna () and the first layer () via a user () of the system. The detection system is further arranged to receive the transmitted proximity sensing signal and determine therefrom the distance between a part () of the user and the touch screen ().

A vehicle is equipped with a transmitter/receiver user recognition device and a control system for allowing a user to act remotely on one or more sub-systems of a vehicle, e.g., opening a panel such as a boot. In use, the system operates in association with a user identification device so as to activate an illumination block when the identification device has been recognized by the user recognition device and the identified user's hand is approaching, and to control the operation of one of the sub-systems when the identified user s hand is touching the illumination legend.

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Cotesbach, United Kingdom

Peter Robert Thomas