Smart watch device and user interface thereof

• US 10,409,454 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2014
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kagan, Tomer, Shapira, Liron
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Widhlam de Rodrig, Angela M
• Application Number:
  US14/573,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20150253885A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,728 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A smart watch device includes a wrist watch housing configured to be worn around a user'"'"'s wrist, a computing device included in the housing, and a display device included in the housing and communicatively coupled to the computing device. The computing device is configured to transmit a search query to a search system and receive one or more search results from the search system in response to transmitting the search query. Each search result indicates a computing device function. The computing device is further configured to display only one of the search results using the display device, detect a user selection of the displayed search result, and transmit an indication of the user selection to a performing device. The performing device is configured to perform the function indicated by the displayed search result in response to receiving the indication.

Claims

1. A smart watch device comprising:

a wrist watch housing configured to be worn around a user'"'"'s wrist;

a computing device included in the wrist watch housing; and

a display device included in the wrist watch housing and communicatively coupled to the computing device,

wherein the computing device is configured to;

transmit a search query to a search system, wherein the search query includes at least one character;

receive one or more search results corresponding to the search query from the search system in response to transmitting the search query;

display the one or more search results using the display device, wherein the one or more search results comprise an application list of executable functions and one or more external devices;

receive an input for a user selection of one search result of the one or more search results; and

in response to the input for the user selection, transmit an indication of the user selection to a selected performing external device, wherein the selected external device is configured to initiate an attempt to launch an application corresponding to the selected search result in response to receiving the indication.

2. The smart watch device of claim 1,

wherein the selected search result includes an access mechanism, and

wherein, to execute a function of the selected search result, the selected external device is configured to set the application into a state of the application using the access mechanism.

3. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to display only one of the one or more search results, detect a user input configured to cause the computing device to navigate through the one or more search results, and display a different search result of the one or more search results in response to detecting the user input.

4. The smart watch device of claim 3,

wherein the selected search result is associated with the application,

wherein, to detect the user input, the computing device is further configured to detect one of a right swiping gesture or a left swiping gesture at the display device, and

wherein, to display the different search result, the computing device is further configured to display the one of the one or more search results that is associated with the application.

5. The smart watch device of claim 3,

wherein the one of the one or more search results is associated with a first application,

wherein, to detect the user input, the computing device is further configured to detect one of an upward swiping gesture or a downward swiping gesture at the display device, and

wherein to display the different one of the one or more search results, the computing device is further configured to display the one of the one or more search results that is associated with a second application which is different than the first application.

6. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to:

store the one or more search results within one or more of the smart watch device or a data store located outside of the smart watch device;

receive a user input configured to cause the computing device to display the stored one or more search results using the display device; and

display only one of the stored one or more search results using the display device in response to receiving the user input.

7. The smart watch device of claim 6,

wherein the user input comprises a first user input, and

wherein the computing device is further configured to detect a second user input configured to cause the computing device to navigate through the stored one or more search results, and display a different only one of the stored one or more search results using the display device in response to detecting the second user input.

8. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein the computing device is further configured to display an indication of the selected external device using the display device.

9. The smart watch device of claim 8, wherein the computing device is further configured to display an indication of each of one or more of the following using the display device:

whether the selected external device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the selected external device has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a communication interface by which the selected external device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a location of the selected external device;

or

an availability of the selected external device to execute a function of the selected search result.

10. The smart watch device of claim 1, wherein to transmit the indication of the user selection to the selected external device, the computing device is further configured to:

display, in the application list, an indication of each of the one or more external devices including the selected external device using the display device;

receive an input for a user selection of one of the one or more indications that corresponds to the selected external device;

or

select the external device from among the one or more external devices in response to receiving the input for the user selection of the one of the one or more indications that corresponds to the selected external device.

11. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein each of the one or more external devices is capable of executing a function indicated by the one of the one or more search results in response to receiving the indication and one or more of an external device that is communicatively coupled to the computing device, an external device that has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device, an external device that is located proximate to the computing device, or an external device that is available to execute a function of the selected search result.

12. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein the computing device is further configured to display an indication of each of one or more of the following using the display device:

whether at least one of the one or more external devices is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether at least one of the one or more external devices has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a communication interface by which at least one of the one or more external devices is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a location of at least one of the one or more external devices;

or

an availability of at least one of the one or more external devices to execute a function of the selected search result.

13. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein the computing device is further configured to display the one or more indications using the display device along with the one of the one or more search results corresponding to the search query displayed using the display device.

14. The smart watch device of claim 10,

wherein the computing device is further configured to display the one or more indications using the display device after receiving the input for the user selection of the one of the one or more search results, and

wherein the computing device is further configured to display the one or more indications in place of the one of the one or more search results using the display device.

15. The smart watch device of claim 10, wherein to display the one or more indications of the one or more external devices using the display device, the computing device is further configured to arrange at least one of the one or more indications based on one or more of:

whether the corresponding one of the one or more external devices is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the corresponding one of the one or more external devices has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the corresponding one of the one or more external devices is located proximate to the computing device;

whether the corresponding one of the one or more external devices is available to execute a function of the selected search result;

a number of times the corresponding one of the one or more external devices has been previously selected;

or

how frequently the corresponding one of the one or more external devices has been selected.

16. The smart watch device of claim 1,

wherein the one of the one or more search results indicates multiple functions and includes multiple graphical elements that each indicate a different one of the multiple functions,

wherein, to receive the input for the user selection of the one of the one or more search results, the computing device is further configured to receive an input for a user selection of one of the multiple graphical elements,

wherein the indication of the user selection of the one of the one or more search results comprises an indication of the user selection of the one of the multiple graphical elements, and

wherein the selected external device is configured to execute one of the multiple functions indicated by the one of the multiple graphical elements in response to receiving the indication of the user selection of the one of the multiple graphical elements.

17. The smart watch device of claim 16, wherein at least one of the multiple graphical elements further indicates one or more of:

an external device that is configured to execute the one of the multiple functions associated with the graphical element;

whether the external device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

whether the external device has been previously communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a communication interface by which the external device is communicatively coupled to the computing device;

a location of the external device;

or

an availability of the external device to execute the one of the multiple functions.

18. The smart watch device of claim 1,

wherein the computing device is further configured to detect a user input,

wherein the user input is configured to cause the selected external device to display an expanded version of the one of the search results, and transmit an indication of the user input to the external device, and

wherein, to execute a function indicated by the one of the search results, the external device is configured to display the expanded version of the one of the search results in response to receiving the user input, receive an input for a user selection of the expanded version of the one of the search results, and execute the function indicated by the one of the search results in response to receiving the input for the user selection of the expanded version of the one of the search results.

19. A method comprising:

transmitting, using a smart watch device, a search query to a search system configured to generate search results in response to receiving the search query, wherein the search query includes at least one character;

receiving one or more search results corresponding to the search query from the search system in response to transmitting the search query at the smart watch device;

displaying the one or more search results at the smart watch device, wherein the one or more search results comprise an application list of executable functions and one or more external devices;

receiving, using the smart watch device, an input for a user selection of a search result of the one or more search results; and

in response to the input for the user selection, transmitting, using the smart watch device, an indication of the user selection to a selected external device, wherein the selected external device is configured to initiate an attempt to launch an application corresponding to the selected search result in response to receiving the indication.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that cause one or more computing devices to:

transmit, using a smart watch device, a search query to a search system, wherein the search query includes at least one character;

receive one or more search results corresponding to the search query from the search system in response to transmitting the search query;

display the one or more search results at the smart watch device, wherein the one or more search results comprise an application list of executable functions and one or more external devices;

receive, using the smart watch device, an input for a user selection of a search result of the one or more search results; and

in response to the user selection, transmit, using the smart watch device, an indication of the user selection to a selected external device, wherein the selected external device is configured to initiate an attempt to launch an application corresponding to the selected search result in response to receiving the indication.