Controller, vehicle and method
AssigneeJaguar Land Rover Limited
InventorsCarloalberto MICHIELAN, Jason BEVIS
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Abstract
A controller for controlling a haptic feedback actuator of a vehicle, the controller comprising: at least one input for receiving: vehicle parameter information comprising information indicative of a current position of at least a portion of a seat of the vehicle; and information indicating that it is required to provide haptic feedback, a processor being arranged, in response to receipt of information indicating that haptic feedback is required, to generate a control signal for controlling operation of the haptic feedback actuator, the control signal being responsive at least in part to the vehicle parameter information; and an output for outputting the control signal.
Claims20
A control system for controlling a haptic feedback actuator of a vehicle, the control system comprising one or more controllers, the control system configured to:
- receive vehicle parameter information comprising information indicative of a current position of at least a portion of a seat of the vehicle;
- receive information indicating that it is required to provide haptic feedback;
- in response to receipt of information indicating that haptic feedback is required, generate a control signal for controlling operation of the haptic feedback actuator, the control signal being responsive to the vehicle parameter information;
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- output the control signal.
A method of providing haptic feedback in a vehicle, comprising:
- receiving vehicle parameter information comprising information indicative of a current position of at least a portion of a seat of the vehicle;
- receiving information indicating that it is required to provide haptic feedback;
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- in response to receipt of information indicating that haptic feedback is required, controlling operation of a haptic feedback actuator, whereby controlling operation of the haptic feedback actuator comprises controlling the haptic feedback actuator responsive at least in part to the vehicle parameter information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.