System and Method of Using Sudden Motion Sensor Data for Input Device Input

• US 20080316061A1
• Filed: 08/10/2007
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mark Goggin, Terence Goggin
• Original Assignee: Mark Goggin, Terence Goggin
• Inventors: Goggin, Terence, Goggin, Mark
• Application Number:
  US11/836,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20080316061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/20
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

A system and method effect application behavior by interpreting sudden motion sensor data as input device (e.g., keyboard) input data

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

reading sudden motion sensor data during tilting of a device;

interpreting the read data as input device input for an application that requires input from the input device; and

adjusting application behavior based on the interpreted data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting adjusts application behavior in proportion to the read data values.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the reading reads the data from a sudden motion sensor system used to park a head of a hard drive.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the sudden motion sensor system includes a three-axis accelerometer.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the adjusting adjusts application behavior if a value from any axis exceeds a threshold.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the application includes a game.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the device includes a MACINTOSH computer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the input device includes a keyboard.

9. A system, comprising:

means for reading sudden motion sensor data during tilting of a device;

means for interpreting the read data as input device input for an application that requires input from the input device; and

means for adjusting application behavior based on the interpreted data.

10. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions to cause a computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

reading sudden motion sensor data during tilting of a device;

interpreting the read data as input device input for an application that requires input from the input device; and

adjusting application behavior based on the interpreted data.

11. A system, comprising:

a sudden motion sensor engine for reading sudden motion sensor data during tilting of a device;

an input device driver, communicatively coupled to the sudden motion sensor engine, for interpreting the read data as input device data for an application that requires input from the input device; and

wherein the application is communicatively coupled to the input device driver and adjusts behavior based on the interpreted data.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the application adjusts behavior in proportion to the read data values.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the sudden motion sensor engine reads the data from a sudden motion sensor system used to park a head of a hard drive,

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the sudden motion sensor system includes a three-axis accelerometer.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the application adjusts its behavior if a value from any axis exceeds a threshold.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the application includes a game.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the device includes a MACINTOSH computer.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the input device includes a keyboard.