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US 9182822
Interactive display unit
Current assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
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Patent summary
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Patent Overview — US9182822B2
Title: Interactive display unit
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US9182822](/patent/US9182822)/en
Identification: US 9,182,822 B2; application US13/982,882 (also published as US20140307179A1). Inventors Yanning Zhao, Andreas Eppinger, and Daniel Jendritza. Original assignee Johnson Controls GmbH; current assignee listed as Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (a 2022 nunc pro tunc assignment from Johnson Controls Technology Company is noted; the earlier 2014 assignment was to Johnson Controls Technology Company).
Dates: Priority date 2011-02-01; filing date 2011-12-29; publication date 2015-11-10; status listed as expired – fee related, with adjusted expiration 2032-03-06.
Purpose and plain-language scope: The invention relates to an interactive display unit for presenting information and/or for interaction with a user, particularly in a vehicle interior. The excerpt's definitions explain that human visual perception is three-dimensional and that three-dimensional presentation of information is used in display units; currently known three-dimensional technology is based, for example, on stereoscopic methods. The supplied text also lists prior-art keywords — display unit, light source, interactive display, polymer material, actuator — and classifies the document under interactive input/output and tactile (haptic) feedback, vehicle instrumentation and haptic output, and holography including photorefractive polymer recording materials and holographic haptic interaction. Together these indicate a unit combining a display with light-based (possibly holographic) presentation and an actuator-based tactile/haptic response to user interaction, but the excerpt does not restate this as an express device characterization.
What the excerpt does not establish: It provides no claim text, description body, drawings, or prior-art citations, so the precise claimed elements and their relationships cannot be quoted. It also does not disclose specific materials, light-source types, actuator constructions, control methods, dimensions, or embodiments. The listed classifications and keywords are metadata, not claim limitations. No litigation, validity, ownership-transfer, or prior-art analysis is included above, per instruction.
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