US 11,079,751 B2 · Gesturing for control input for a vehicle

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for providing input to a vehicle control system to navigate, position and direct a vehicle, by use of a gesture sensing device. The gesture sensing device may be in the form of: a remote, a mobile computing device such as a smartphone, a tablet or smart-watch, or a direction/motion sensor. The vehicle control system with gesture sensing device is useful for the control of radio controlled vehicles, drones and driver and driverless vehicles. In preferred embodiments, the vehicle control system with gesture sensing device is used to control GNSS/GPS enabled electric steer trolling motors, such as motors utilizing the ProNav® Angler, Rhodan® HD GPS® Anchor, Minn-Kota® IPilot, and the MotorGuide® Pinpoint.

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Dependent claims

A method of controlling the travel of a vehicle comprising the steps of:

obtaining a gesture sensing device operable to sense a directional primary gesture input and a magnitude secondary gesture input;
pointing the gesture sensing device in a desired direction;
indicating through the gesture sensing device that a change in position is desired;
running a process on the gesture sensing device to determine the direction of the gesture sensing device;
running a process on an electronic control system determining the global position of the vehicle;
running a process to determine an updated position;
updating the control system commanded position;
and activating the electronic control system to direct the vehicle to the commanded position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/246,897Filed 14 Jan 2019 · us provisional application

Priority

12 Jan 2018

Published

US 2019/0219997 A118 Jul 2019

Granted

3 Aug 2021

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

G05D 1/0016
Associated with a remote control arrangement: characterised by the operator's input device
G06F 3/017
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a…
G06F 3/0346
Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor: with detection of the…
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…

Gesturing for control input for a vehicle

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Gesturing for control input for a vehicle

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Abstract

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