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Input device for a motor vehicle
Hans Roth,Olaf Preissner,Christoph Reifenrath,Alexa Wackernagel,Stefan Marti,Michael Reuss,Stephan Bergmann,Kelei Shen +7 more
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An input device for a motor vehicle having a dashboard (120) and a steering wheel (110), comprising a sensor (302) and/or a circuit (200) connected to the sensor(302), is presented in this article.Abstract:
An input device for a motor vehicle having a dashboard (120) and a steering wheel (110), comprising a sensor (302) and a circuit (200) connected to the sensor (302), - wherein the sensor (302) is positioned in the dashboard (120) sensitive toward the steering wheel (110), - wherein the sensor (302) is designed to output a sensor signal (S302) based on a contactless hand gesture (912, 913), - wherein the circuit (200) is configured to evaluate the sensor signal (S302), and - wherein the circuit (200) and/or the sensor (302) is configured to distinguish between a steering movement (910, 911) and the hand gesture (912, 913), and - wherein the circuit (200) is configured to output a detection signal (S3) based on the detection of the hand gesture (912, 913)read more
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