This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for activating a function by selecting a graphical user interface (GUI) element on a screen of a vehicle using a capacitive controller. In some implementations, the method can include detecting an active selection of a first GUI element on the screen of the vehicle selectable using the capacitive controller positioned on a steering wheel of the vehicle. In addition, the method can include detecting a movement of a finger of a driver in the vehicle across the capacitive controller on the steering wheel of the vehicle. The method can further include determining a direction of the movement of the finger. The method can additionally include automatically moving the active selection to a second selectable GUI element on the screen based on the direction of the movement of the finger.


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    Title :

    STEERING WHEEL CAPACITIVE CONTROL


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2025-05-08


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G06F ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING , Elektrische digitale Datenverarbeitung / B60K Anordnung oder Einbau von Antriebseinheiten oder von Kraft- bzw. Drehmomentübertragungen in Fahrzeugen , ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES / B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge



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