Capacitive touch textiles and vehicle applications
AssigneeBenecke-Kaliko AG
InventorsDe'Anna Hall, Christopher Tyson, Lynn Kubik, J. Ryan Bailey, Harsh Sanghavi
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Abstract
A vehicle interface system is disclosed. The system includes a conductive textile 100 and circuitry 408. The conductive textile 100 is configured to provide user input information, wherein the user input information is in response to contact with the conductive textile. The circuitry 408 is configured to analyze the user input information, identify a user input based on the user input information, and determine an associated command based on the identified user input.
Claims8
An interface system comprising:
- a conductive textile configured to provide user input information based on a user contact, wherein the user input information is in response to contact with the conductive textile;
- a textile layer of the conductive textile;
- a conductive fiber woven into the textile layer and arranged in rows and columns having a selected spacing;
- a vinyl protective layer formed on the conductive fiber and the textile layer;
- the conductive textile has resistivity based in response to pressure by the user contact and has a plurality of regions assigned to a plurality of control systems;
- a first interface of the conductive textile to provide a first coordinate;
- a second interface of the conductive textile to provide a second coordinate;
- an interface circuitry to analyze the user input information and the first coordinate from the first interface and the second coordinate from the second interface to identify an assigned region, the circuitry determines a control system of the plurality of control systems based on the identified assigned region, the circuitry determines a command based on the user input information and the first coordinate and the second coordinate and the determined control system.
A method of operating a vehicle interface system, the method comprising:
- arranging conductive fibers into a conductive textile having into a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows;
- a user contact generating input information from a conductive textile having the conductive fibers woven into a textile layer, a protective layer formed on the textile layer and a textile interface;
- an interface circuitry determining location information and timing information of the input information using the plurality of rows and the plurality of columns;
- the interface circuitry assigning regions of the conductive textile into a plurality of control systems;
- the interface circuitry determining a vehicle control system of the plurality of control systems based on the determined location and the assigned regions;
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- the interface circuitry determining a command based on the determined vehicle control system and the determined location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.