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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Yi Li, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Miles J. Johnson, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kristofer D. Kusano, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Danil V. Prokhorov, Canton, MI (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
A system and associated methodology that controls a vehicle component as a function of a user input. The system stores a plurality of functions associated with a plurality of touching gestures, receives the user input, determines, based on the user input, a user gesture wherein the user gesture corresponds to one of the plurality of touching gestures, determines a function associated with the user gesture, determines a feature of the user gesture, determines an operational parameter of the function based on the feature. Then, the system controls the vehicle component associated with the function as a function of the operational parameter.