VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC B60K35/00 B62D1/04 G06F3/00 H04B10/00 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: vehicle control device contains steering wheel, optical emitter and optically linked with it radiation receivers connected to dedicated computer. Optical receivers represent digital television cameras the field of view of which is optical emitter surface. In the first version, optical emitter is made as strip attached to inner surface of steering wheel. In the second version, the device contains the second optical receiver, herewith the receivers represent light emitting diodes and provide illumination of objects falling into field of view of the first and the second optical receiver. The zone where vehicle operator gestures can be recognised is intersection of fields of view the first and the second television cameras on the surface of optical emitter. Appearance of operator's finger in this zone causes emitted light flux intersection and consequently appearance of shaded segments on images generated by the first and the second television cameras, and according to coordinates of these segments the dedicated computer calculates a number of spatial positions of operator's finger at successive time points and determines motion trajectory from them.

EFFECT: vehicle control device functionality enhancement.

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