TERMINAL, VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150158500A1
• Filed: 10/26/2014
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Lee, Tae Ho
• Granted Patent: US 9,573,471 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/146 Instrument input by gesture
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/21 using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883

Abstract

An apparatus is provided that includes a terminal, a detection unit configured to detect movement of a user, and a control unit to control operation of the terminal so that operation and functions corresponding to a number of times the movement is detected. Accordingly, it may be possible to intuitively input operation instructions of the terminal, give cognition of the intuitive and sensuous terminal to the user since the operation instructions of the terminal are input in an input manner by operation struck with a hand two or three times such as clicking or double clicking.

Claims

1. An apparatus installed in a vehicle comprising:

a terminal;

a detection unit configured to detect movement of a user; and

a control unit configured to control operation of the terminal based on a number of times a movement is detected by the detection unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises at least one of a navigation device, a black box, a GPS, a Bluetooth device, and a rear camera.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit comprises a proximity sensor which detects movement of a hand located in a predetermined detection region.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit activates a redetection mode when the movement is detected, maintains the redetection mode in response to activating the redetection mode, counts the number of times of the movement is redetected when the movement is redetected within a time period during the redetection mode, and terminates the redetection mode when the movement is not redetected within the time period.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the control unit is configured to count the number of times the movement is detected for from a point in time at which the movement is initially detected until the time period expires.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit configured to set operation instructions according to the number of times the movement is detected,

wherein the control unit activates the detection unit when key signals to set the operation instructions are input, and matches the number of times of the movement is detected by the detection unit with the operation instructions input to the input unit to generate operation instructions according to the number of times movement is detected.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a storage unit which stores the operation instructions according to the number of times the movement is detected.

8. A terminal which performs at least one of a vehicle driving route guidance operation mode, an external broadcasting output operation mode, and an A/V output operation mode, the terminal comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect movement of a user;

a control unit configured to identify operation instructions corresponding to a number of times a movement is detected and controls the at least one operation mode based on the identified operation instructions correlated with the number of time the movement is detected; and

a storage unit that stores the operation instructions corresponding to the number of times the movement is detected.

9. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the control unit is configured to convert a current operation mode into another operation mode based on the number of times the movement is detected.

10. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the control unit is configured to perform at least one of screen capture operation, channel storage operation, and menu expansion and reduction operation in a current mode, based on the number of times the movement is detected.

11. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the detection unit comprises a proximity sensor which detects movement of a hand located in a predetermined detection region.

14. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the control unit further comprises identifying a detection time at which the movement is detected within a preset detection region and identifying an operation instruction corresponding to the identified detection time.

15. The terminal according to claim 8, wherein the control unit further comprises identifying a detection direction of the movement when the movement is detected within a preset detection region and identifying an operation instruction corresponding to the identified detection direction.

12. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the control unit activates a redetection mode when the movement is detected and maintains the redetection mode, when the movement is redetected within a time period during performance of the redetection mode, counting the number of times of the movement is redetected, and terminates the redetection mode when the movement is not redetected within the time period.

13. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the control unit is configured to count the number of times the movement is detected from a point in time when the movement is initially detected until the time period expires.

16. A method of controlling a terminal provided in a vehicle, the method comprising:

activating a detection unit when an instruction to perform a detection mode is input to an input unit;

identifying, when a movement is detected by the detection unit, a number of times the movement is detected;

identifying operation instructions corresponding to the number of times the movement is detected; and

controlling operation of the terminal based on identified operation instructions.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the detecting the movement comprises determining the movement is detected within a preset detection region among the movements detected by the detection unit as movement for an operation instruction.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein:

the identifying the number of times of the detected movement comprises activating a redetection mode when the movement is detected;

the performing the redetection mode comprises determining whether the movement is redetected within a time period and repeating a process of additionally counting the number of times the movement is detected once the movement is redetected before the time period elapses; and

when the movement is not redetected within the time period, the redetection mode is terminated.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein the identifying the number of times the movement is detected, comprises:

counting the number of times the movement is detected for a preset reference time from a point of time at which the movement is initially detected; and

identifying the number of times of the counted movement for the reference time.

20. The method according to claim 16, further comprising:

activating the detection unit when key signals to set operation instructions are input to the input unit;

identifying the operation instructions input to the input unit;

identifying the number of times the movement is detected by the detection unit;

generating a new operation instruction by matching the number of times the movement is detected with the operation instructions input to the input unit; and

storing the generated new operation instruction and the number of times the movement is detected.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein the identifying movement detected by the detection unit further comprises identifying the number of times the movement is detected by the detection unit and a time interval between detected movements.

22. The method according to claim 20, wherein the identifying movement detected by the detection unit further comprises:

identifying a reference time input to the input unit; and

identifying the number of times of the movement detected by the detection unit for the reference time.