Method and device for actuating a closing element for a vehicle
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorBernd Ette
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Abstract
A method for actuating a closing element of a vehicle including optically detecting a directed movement of an object to any point in an area, generating an optical mark for localizing the point if the directed movement has initially been detected; detecting a sequence of movements of the object, wherein the sequence of movements includes the directed movement, and actuating the closing element if the detected sequence of movements meets at least one predetermined requirement.
Claims15
A method for actuation of a closing element of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- optically detecting a directed displacement of an object to an arbitrary position in a region;
- producing a visual marking for localizing a trigger position in response to the directed displacement having been previously detected;
- detecting a displacement process of the object, wherein the displacement process comprises the directed displacement, including checking whether the object reaches the trigger position and changing a property of the visual marking in response to the object reaching the trigger position;
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- actuating the closing element in response to the detected displacement process meeting meets at least one predetermined condition.
A device for the actuation of a closing element of a vehicle, the device comprising:
- a controller;
- an optical sensor;
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- a light source,
- wherein the optical sensor detect a directed displacement of an object to an arbitrary position in a region,
- wherein the light source and the controller produce a visual marking for localizing the region if the controller has previously detected the directed displacement by the optical sensor, wherein the optical sensor detects a displacement process of the object, wherein the displacement process comprises the directed displacement, wherein the controller checks whether the object reaches a trigger position and changes a property of the visual marking in response to the object reaching the trigger position,
- wherein the device actuates the closing element in response to the controller determining that the detected displacement process meets at least one predetermined condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.