A vehicular apparatus includes: a control portion that executes an internal application pre-installed to the vehicular apparatus and an external application obtained from an external device located outside the vehicular apparatus; a load acquisition portion that acquires a load of the control portion when the external application is executed; and a display portion that displays the load acquired by the load acquisition portion.

An impact feedback operation device includes a base member, an operation member having an operation part equipped with a touch sensor, an actuator having a shape memory alloy wire, a temperature sensor, a voltage sensor, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines an energization condition required for the shape memory alloy wire, depending on a detected temperature and a detected voltage. The operation part is fixed to the base member through an elastically deformable elastic portion.

A multi-dimensional track pad is described that acts as human-machine interface (HMI). Inputs to the HMI can be made not only using the tradition two-dimensional (X-Y) inputs of a track pad, but also a third dimension, force, and even a fourth dimension, time. Tactile or audible feedback to the inputs can be provided. Methods of using the HMI to control a system are described as well as a track pad system that utilizes the HMI in communication with a processor.

A haptic interface, including: a button moving in a first direction or in a second direction; an interaction element interacting with a magnetorheological fluid with a viscosity that varies in accordance with a magnetic field; a brake including a magnetorheological fluid and a generation system to generate a magnetic field on command; a sensor detecting the current position of the button; a mechanism determining speed of the button; and a controller configured to send orders to the system to generate a magnetic field, the orders being generated according to the current position of the button and the current actuation speed of the button.

The operating unit for a vehicle, in particular for a vehicle component, is provided with a housing (10) which has an operating element (12), such as a display for example, and is designed to be secured in a device, in particular in a vehicle dashboard. The operating element (12) is elastically mounted on the housing (10). An actuator (16) is additionally provided for mechanically exciting the operating element (12) when an operation of the operating element (12) has been detected. Finally, the operating unit also has a vibration compensating mass (20) which can be mechanically excited by the actuator or by one actuator (16) when an operation of the operating element (12) has been detected and/or which is mounted on the housing (10) and can be moved in order to substantially compensate for forces acting on the housing (10) when the operating element (12) is moved.

An actuating element, actuator device, and a control device are included in an operating device for a motor vehicle. The actuating element detects a user actuation and is movably mounted. The actuator device has an electromagnet and a permanent magnet. The control device applies a first electrical current to the electromagnet, by which the electromagnet applies a first magnetic force to the permanent magnet, which deflects the actuating element out of a rest position. The deflection of the actuating element can be felt as a brief jolt without reverberation. An elastically deformable restoring device presses or pulls the actuating element with a restoring force toward the rest position against a mechanical stop element.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a vibration panel and a touch display apparatus. The vibration panel includes: a fixed substrate; a piezoelectric device, located on the fixed substrate, and configured to generate an inverse piezoelectric effect to generate vibration under an action of an alternating voltage signal; and a vibration transmission structure, located on the piezoelectric device, and configured to transmit force generated during vibration of the piezoelectric device.

The present disclosure relates to a vibration generation device, a display apparatus including the vibration generation device, and a vehicle including the vibration generation device. A vibration generation device includes a piezoelectric ceramic part having a certain interval, a piezoelectric material layer between the piezoelectric ceramic parts, and an electrode part configured to provide electric field to one or more of the piezoelectric ceramic part and the piezoelectric material layer.

The present invention provides a recognition device that is mounted on a moving object and recognizes a lighting situation of a traffic signal, the recognition device comprising: an imaging unit that periodically images an external environment of the moving object; at least one processor with a memory comprising instructions cause the at least one processor to at least: sequentially detect, for each image periodically obtained by the imaging unit, a lighting mode of the traffic signal included in the image; and determine, in a case where a same lighting mode of the traffic signal is continuously detected for a predetermined time, the lighting mode as a lighting situation of the traffic signal, wherein the predetermined time is twice or more as long as an imaging cycle of the imaging unit.

An operating input device for a vehicle and to a steering input device is disclosed. The operating input device has an upper part having an operating input surface with an input area associated with an operating function, and a lower part serving as a support structure for the upper part. The upper part is relatively movable to the lower part by an operating input force applied on the operating input surface in an operating input direction extending substantially perpendicular to the operating input surface. For generating a haptic feedback, the upper part and the lower part are coupled movably relative to each other such that by a feedback actuation mechanism, which is couplable to the operating input device, the upper part is movable relatively to the lower part at least in a first haptic feedback generating direction extending at least substantially parallel to the operating input surface.