Patent ID: 11959326
Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E  H | IPC E  H

Claim 10:
11. A vehicle operation detection method for detecting an operation for causing an opening-closing body of a vehicle to open and close using sensor electrodes arranged so as to form a row, an arrangement direction of the sensor electrodes including a first direction corresponding to an opening direction of the opening-closing body and a second direction corresponding to a closing direction of the opening-closing body, the sensor electrodes including two sensor electrodes at leading ends in the first direction and the second direction, the vehicle operation detection method comprising:
defining, as an operation start electrode, one of the two sensor electrodes having the capacitance greater than or equal to a first determination value;
determining whether the capacitance of one of the sensor electrodes increases, the determining including determining that a first operation has been performed in a case where the one of the sensor electrodes having the increased capacitance is sequentially shifted in the first direction from the operation start electrode and determining that a second operation has been performed in a case where the one of the sensor electrodes having the increased capacitance is sequentially shifted in the second direction from the operation start electrode; and
outputting a first command that causes the opening-closing body to open based on the first operation being determined as having been performed and outputting a second command that causes the opening-closing body to close based on the second operation being determined as having been performed, wherein
the sensor electrodes include an adjacent electrode that is adjacent to the operation start electrode, and
the determining whether the capacitance of the one of the sensor electrodes increases includes determining that a capacitance of the adjacent electrode has increased in a case where the capacitance of the adjacent electrode becomes greater than or equal to a second determination value, the second determination value being greater than the first determination value.