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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2018
Nio Usa, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
James A. Chion, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy J. Meador, Fairfield, CA (US);
Pierluigi Dalla Rosa, Oakland, CA (US);
Robin Bigio, San Francisco, CA (US);
NIO USA, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A multiple input rotary dial user interface device and system is provided. The rotary dial user interface device may include a rotationally fixed touchpad, disposed within a center of a rotatable dial. Although fixed rotationally, the touchpad of the rotary dial user interface device may move in a linear axial direction, along the rotational axis, with or independently of the rotary dial. In addition to providing input by rotating the rotary dial, a user can provide input via touching the touchpad, actuating the touchpad, and/or actuating the rotary dial in the linear axial direction. In some cases, the rotary dial user interface device may employ the use of a static rotary encoder sensing rotation of an encoder wheel affixed to the rotary dial to determine momentum characteristics associated with the dial.