Input apparatus, input method, and input program

• US 9,389,755 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Onaka, Junichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US14/224,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20140289631A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 715741-745, 715/727, 715/825, 715/700
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

An operation input unit detects an operation position corresponding to an operation input; a display processing unit changes a display item to be displayed on a display unit of a plurality of items, depending on a change of the operation position; a processing control unit continues a process of changing the display item to be displayed on the display unit until a predetermined input is received, while a vehicle is moving, and when an operation speed of moving the operation position is higher than a preset threshold of the operation speed, or an operation acceleration at which the operation speed changes is higher than a preset threshold of the operation acceleration; and an item selecting unit selects any of the plurality of items based on the predetermined input.

Claims

1. An input apparatus comprising:

an operation input unit that detects an operation position corresponding to an operation input;

a display processing unit that changes a display item to be displayed on a display unit of a plurality of items, depending on a change of the operation position;

a processing control unit that continues a process of changing the display item to be displayed on the display unit until a predetermined input is received, while a vehicle is moving, and when an operation speed of moving the operation position is higher than a preset threshold of the operation speed, or an operation acceleration at which the operation speed changes is higher than a preset threshold of the operation acceleration;

an item selecting unit that selects any of the plurality of items based on the predetermined input; and

a speech recognizing unit that recognizes an utterance content by a user,

wherein the processing control unit causes the speech recognizing unit to start a process of recognizing at least any of the display items from the utterance content by the user, when the operation speed is higher than the threshold of the operation speed, or when the operation acceleration is higher than the threshold of the operation acceleration.

2. The input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing control unit sets a higher change speed for changing the display items as a running speed of the vehicle increases.

3. The input apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a speech synthesizing unit that synthesizes speech corresponding to a text indicated by any of the display items, at a rate of utterance corresponding to the change speed for changing the display items.

4. The input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of items is classified into one or a plurality of large items, and wherein the processing control unit causes the display unit to display the large item corresponding to the display item, when the change speed for changing the display items exceeds a preset threshold of change speed.

5. The input apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the processing control unit causes the display unit to display each of the large items for a certain predetermined time.

6. The input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of items is classified into one or a plurality of large items, and wherein the processing control unit causes the display unit to display the large item corresponding to the display item, when the change speed for changing the display items exceeds a preset threshold of change speed.

7. The input apparatus according to claim 6, wherein, the processing control unit causes the display unit to display each of the large items for a certain predetermined time.

8. The input apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the processing control unit causes the speech recognizing unit to recognize a large item corresponding to any of the display items as the utterance content of recorded speech.

9. The input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the item selecting unit selects a display item displayed in the past by a predetermined time, from the item selected by the item selecting unit, of the plurality of items.

10. An input method for an input apparatus, the method including:

a display processing step of changing a display item to be displayed on a display unit of a plurality of items, depending on a change of an operation position detected by an operation input unit corresponding to an operation input;

a processing control step of continuing a process of changing the display item to be displayed by the display unit until a predetermined input is received, while a vehicle is moving, and when an operation speed of moving the operation position is higher than a preset threshold of the operation speed, or an operation acceleration at which the operation speed changes is higher than a preset threshold of the operation acceleration;

an item selecting step of selecting any of the plurality of items based on the predetermined input; and

a speech recognizing step of recognizing an utterance content by a user,

wherein the processing control step includes starting a process of recognizing at least any of the display items from the utterance content by the user, when the operation speed is higher than the threshold of the operation speed, or when the operation acceleration is higher than the threshold of the operation acceleration.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an input program that causes a computer of an input apparatus to execute:

a display processing procedure of changing a display item to be displayed on a display unit of a plurality of items, depending on a change of an operation position detected by an operation input unit corresponding to an operation input;

a processing control procedure of continuing a process of changing the display item to be displayed by the display unit until a predetermined input is received, while a vehicle is moving, and when an operation speed of moving the operation position is higher than a preset threshold of the operation speed, or an operation acceleration at which the operation speed changes is higher than a preset threshold of the operation acceleration;

an item selecting procedure of selecting any of the plurality of items based on the predetermined input; and

a speech recognizing procedure of recognizing an utterance content by a user,

wherein the processing control procedure causes the speech recognizing procedure to start a process of recognizing at least any of the display items from the utterance content by the user, when the operation speed is higher than the threshold of the operation speed, or when the operation acceleration is higher than the threshold of the operation acceleration.