So, the Image provides the passengers with information. But how do the passengers communicate with the vehicle? How do you instruct the machine? With your voice, or by touching and how do you know you’ve been heard and understood? We facilitate the collaboration of man and machine by providing an interactive surface. This results in safety on the road. Nothing happens by chance, and you will get feedback from your car about your actions.
Everybody is used to working with a touchscreen. This is not a new technique, but we strive to always deliver the best touch modules possible. Integrating the touch module in the display makes Innolux’s TOD technology an excellent automotive solution for thin and light weight displays. Reflection is reduced by using less layers in the optical stack.
Force sensing is exactly what it says. The display module can feel how hard you push down on the screen. This prevents a machine from acting to fast or it can be used to integrate a secondary command.
Users expect that certain CE-gestures are embedded in the device, but gesture recognition also improves safety as you don’t have to aim for a certain button on the screen. In fact, for some gestures, you don’t even have to touch the screen at all. So called air gestures can be recognised by proximity technology using infra-red. Twist your hand to the right and you increase the volume, swipe your hand to the left and you'll hang up the phone.
Al the above technologies are input from the human communicating to the machine. Haptic feedback is the machine saying it heard you. It replaces the feel of a clicking button by gentle vibration.
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