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US 2024/0192787 A1Published application
Customizable and reconfigurable virtual instrument panel
AssigneeApplied Minds, LLC
InventorsBran FERREN, W. Daniel HILLIS, Randall Adam YATES, Ira M. LICHTMAN, Clint Blake HOPE
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Abstract
The invention provides an instrument control panel that is easily customized and reconfigured, and yet provides the familiar tactile sensation of physical knobs, sliders, and buttons. The instrument control panel comprises one or more interface components that are removably coupled to an interface display wherein the interface components communicate with one or more control components disposed behind the interface display. The present invention lends itself particularly well to an instrument panel.
Claims4
A control apparatus comprising:
- an interface device;
- at least one removable tactile interface component coupled to a first portion of the interface device;
- at least one control component coupled to a second portion of the interface device and further operably coupled to at least one electronic application such that the at least one control component is configured to control at least one function of the at least one electronic application, wherein the at least one removable interface component is remotely coupled to the at least one control component through the interface device;
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- a processor operably coupled to each of the interface device, the at least on control component, and the at least on electronic application, wherein the at least one function of the electronic application is controlled responsive to detected manipulation of the at least one interface component by the at least one control component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.