Systems and methods for assisting an operator in operating vehicle controls
AssigneeWoven By Toyota, Inc.
InventorsManuel Ludwig Kuehner, Hiroshi Yasuda
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Abstract
Systems and methods for assisting an operator in operating vehicle controls are disclosed herein. One embodiment detects that an operator is touching a control in a vehicle and automatically takes, in response to the operator touching the control, one or more actions to assist the operator with regard to the vehicle being a left-hand-drive vehicle or a right-hand-drive vehicle.
Claims20
A system for assisting an operator in operating vehicle controls, the system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- detect that the operator is touching a control in a vehicle, wherein the control is one of a pair of controls whose positions with respect to a steering column are swapped in a left-hand-drive vehicle compared with a right-hand-drive vehicle;
- and
- take, in response to the operator touching the control, one or more actions automatically to assist the operator in actuating a correct control of the pair of controls.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium for assisting an operator in operating vehicle controls and storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- detect that the operator is touching a control in a vehicle, wherein the control is one of a pair of controls whose positions with respect to a steering column are swapped in a left-hand-drive vehicle compared with a right-hand-drive vehicle;
- and
- take, in response to the operator touching the control, one or more actions automatically to assist the operator in actuating a correct control of the pair of controls.
A method, comprising:
- detecting that an operator is touching a control in a vehicle, wherein the control is one of a pair of controls whose positions with respect to a steering column are swapped in a left-hand-drive vehicle compared with a right-hand-drive vehicle;
- and
- taking, in response to the operator touching the control, one or more actions automatically to assist the operator in actuating a correct control of the pair of controls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.