Vehicle computing system to provide feedback

• US 10,496,170 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2017
• Issued: 12/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JJR Laboratories LLC
• Original Assignee: HJ Laboratories, LLC
• Inventors: Vartanian, Harry, Jurikson-Rhodes, Jaron
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Gene W
• Application Number:
  US15/498,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20170228023A1
• Time in Patent Office: 951 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/113 Scrolling through menu items
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• 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 2203/014 Force feedback applied to GUI
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04809 Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/043 using propagating acoustic waves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A vehicle computing system may provide feedback in a vehicle, using a vehicle processor of the vehicle. A touch display may display windows with different vibrations to provide the feedback. A vibration may vary in relation to data.

Claims

1. A method performed by a vehicle computing system, the method comprising:

displaying, by a flexible multi-touch display electrically coupled to a processor and having embedded in a same plane an ultrasound transducer that generates touch sensations to a user over air, a pop-up window, wherein the pop-up window provides a vibration on touch, wherein the vibration increases over time and the flexible multi-touch display detects at least two touches simultaneously;

controlling, by a controller in communication with the ultrasound transducer, ultrasound projected over air to the user by the ultrasound transducer to produce tactile virtual resistance via substantially circular ultrasound using multiple focal points in a zone for the pop-up window when moving into obstacles or boundaries on the flexible multi-touch display, wherein an intensity of the virtual resistance is dependent on location determined by a global positioning system (GPS) device and wherein predicted finger input is detected by an ultrasound detector electrically coupled to the controller; and

displaying, by the flexible multi-touch display, a detailed list of items to navigate by touch gesture for scrolling through the list of items, wherein hitting a threshold level or end point causes an ultrasound tactile feedback, and wherein for scrolling momentum, an ultrasound pattern provides higher intensity initially and then less intensity as momentum increases.

2. A vehicle computing system comprising:

a flexible multi-touch display, electrically coupled to a processor, having embedded in a same plane an ultrasound transducer that generates touch sensations to a user over air, and configured to display a pop-up window, wherein the pop-up window provides a vibration on touch, wherein the vibration increases over time and the flexible multi-touch display detects at least two touches simultaneously; and

a controller configured to control, in communication with the ultrasound transducer, ultrasound projected over air to the user by the ultrasound transducer to produce tactile virtual resistance via substantially circular ultrasound using multiple focal points in a zone for the pop-up window when moving into obstacles or boundaries on the flexible multi-touch display, wherein an intensity of the virtual resistance is dependent on location determined by a global positioning system (GPS) device and wherein predicted finger input is detected by an ultrasound detector electrically coupled to the controller,

wherein the flexible multi-touch display is further configured to display a detailed list of items to navigate by touch gesture for scrolling through the list of items, wherein hitting a threshold level or end point causes an ultrasound tactile feedback, and wherein for scrolling momentum, an ultrasound pattern provides higher intensity initially and then less intensity as momentum increases.