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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Neonode Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Dalarö, SE;
Simon Fellin, Sigtuna, SE;
Thomas Eriksson, Stockholm, SE;
John Karlsson, Märsta, SE;
Maria Hedin, Bromma, SE;
Richard Berglind, Alvsjö, SE;
Neonode Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
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.