STEERING WHEEL USER INTERFACE
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Abstract
A steering wheel that identifies gestures performed on its surface, including a circular gripping element including a thumb-receiving notch disposed along its circumference, an array of light-based proximity sensors, mounted in the gripping element, that projects light beams through the notch radially outward from the gripping element, and detects light beams reflected back into the gripping element by a moving object at or near the notch, and a processor, coupled with the proximity sensor array, for determining polar angles along the circumference of the gripping element occupied by the object, responsive to light beams projected by the proximity sensor array and reflected back by the object being detected by the proximity sensor array.
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36 Claims
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1-21. -21. (canceled)
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22. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor connected to a curved touch-sensitive user input device, cause the processor to generate one or more data structures for an object moving along the perimeter of the curved user input device, each data structure corresponding to a component gesture and comprising:
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a) a time stamp, b) a polar angle at which the moving object starts, c) a polar angle at which the moving object ends, d) a middle polar angle of the moving object, and e) an assigned state being one of the group RECOGNIZED, UPDATED and ENDED, wherein the instructions cause the processor to assign the RECOGNIZED state to the data structure when the moving object is initially detected on the perimeter of the user input device, to assign the UPDATED state to the data structure when the moving object is further detected on the perimeter of the user input device after the initial detection, and to assign the ENDED state to the data structure when the moving object ceases to be detected on the perimeter of the user input device. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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