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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2015
Pyreos Ltd., Edinburgh, GB;
Carsten Giebeler, Edinburgh, GB;
Spyros Brown, Edinburgh, GB;
Tim Chamberlain, Edinburgh, GB;
Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz, Edinburgh, GB;
Pyreos Ltd., Edinburgh, GB;
Abstract
Switch operating device () with: a gesture sensor operating a switch () with a non-tactile push-gesture performed with a heat emitting part. The gesture has an approach phase () during which the part approaches the sensor, a waiting phase () during which the part remains proximate to the sensor, and a withdrawal phase () during which the part is moved away from the sensor. The sensor detects heat emitted by the part with at least one pixel and outputs per pixel a signal (to) with signal deflections () corresponding to a temporal intensity curve of heat detected by the pixel while the gesture () is performed. A signal processing unit () which determines performance of the gesture from a temporal succession of signal deflections. An actuator () is controlled by the signal processing unit and operates the switch when the gesture is performed.