Patent ID: 8538090

Claim:
A device for manipulating vehicle built-in devices, comprising: a pad configured to come into contact with a user's manipulating hand, the pad formed in a depression so that walls are formed around the depression; a camera installed beneath the pad and configured to photograph the user's fingers on the pad above; a screen configured to display overlay images of at least one user finger captured by the camera overlaid on a manipulation screen of a vehicular device; and a processor configured to issue a relevant manipulation instruction by extracting a trajectory formed by the user's fingers from a time series of images of at least one user's finger captured by the camera and comparing a motion pattern of the user's fingers input through the pad and the camera with motion patterns previously registered in memory, wherein each motion pattern is associated with a specific control function of the vehicle built-in devices, and wherein images taken of the user's fingers from below are converted into an image viewed from the bottom so that the image displayed on the screen is a top-side view of the user's fingers rather than a bottom side.