Patents by Inventor Joseph Charles Jira

Joseph Charles Jira has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Finger pointing, gesture based human-machine interface for vehicles
    Patent number: 8760432
    Abstract: An adaptive interface system includes a user interface for controlling a vehicle system, a sensor for detecting a position of an extremity of a user and generating a sensor signal representing the position of the extremity, and a processor in communication with the sensor and the user interface, wherein the processor receives the sensor signal, analyzes the sensor signal based upon an instruction set to determine a pointing vector of the user, and configures the user interface based upon the pointing vector of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Charles Jira, Theodore Charles Wingrove, Royce Duchante Channey
  • FINGER-POINTING, GESTURE BASED HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE FOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20120068956
    Abstract: An adaptive interface system includes a user interface for controlling a vehicle system, a sensor for detecting a position of an extremity of a user and generating a sensor signal representing the position of the extremity, and a processor in communication with the sensor and the user interface, wherein the processor receives the sensor signal, analyzes the sensor signal based upon an instruction set to determine a pointing vector of the user, and configures the user interface based upon the pointing vector of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Charles Jira, Theodore Charles Wingrove, Royce Duchante Channey