A proximity sensor including a housing, light emitters in the housing projecting light out of the housing along a detection plane, light detectors in the housing detecting amounts of light entering the housing along the detection plane, whereby for each emitter-detector pair (E, D), when an object is located at a target position p(E, D) in the detection plane, corresponding to the pair (E, D), then light emitted by emitter E is scattered by the object and is expected to be maximally detected by detector D, and a processor to synchronously activate emitter-detector pairs, to read the detected amounts of light from the detectors, and to calculate a location of the object in the detection plane from the detected amounts of light, in accordance with a detection-location relationship that relates detections from emitter-detector pairs to object locations between neighboring target positions in the detection plane.


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    Title :

    OPTICAL PROXIMITY SENSOR AND ASSOCIATED USER INTERFACE


    Additional title:

    OPTISCHER NÄHERUNGSSENSOR UND ZUGEHÖRIGE BENUTZERSCHNITTSTELLE
    CAPTEUR DE PROXIMITÉ OPTIQUE ET INTERFACE UTILISATEUR ASSOCIÉE



    Publication date :

    2018-08-15


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G06F ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING , Elektrische digitale Datenverarbeitung / B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR



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