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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2010
Applicants:
William Brian Lathrop, San Jose, CA (US);
Evan Small, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Enrique Rodriguez, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
William Brian Lathrop, San Jose, CA (US);
Evan Small, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Enrique Rodriguez, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
VOLKSWAGEN AG, Wolfsburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); B60K 37/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 37/06 (2013.01); B60K 2350/928 (2013.01); Y10T 74/20834 (2015.01);
Abstract
A motor vehicle includes a steering wheel, a first touchpad integrated into the steering wheel adapted to input commands, a second touchpad integrated into the steering wheel and spatially separated from the first touchpad adapted to input commands, and a coordination module adapted to generate a command to operate a function of the motor vehicle as a function of a touch motion over the first touchpad and a simultaneously-occurring touch motion over the second touchpad.