Unit, an Assembly and a Method for Controlling in a Dynamic Egocentric Interactive Space
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Abstract
A portable unit for providing instructions for navigation in menus or controlling equipment, the unit having a user interface and a camera pointing in the general direction of the user. The unit tracking relative movements between the unit and the user and converting the relative movement into the instructions. The unit may be used as a remote control for audio or video equipment or computers or the like.
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1. -19. (canceled)
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20. An assembly of a controllable apparatus and a portable unit for providing information, the unit comprising:
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a user interface for receiving information from or providing information to a user, the user interface being provided in or at a surface of the unit, an image providing element adapted to provide an image, the image providing element being directed so as to image at least a direction being perpendicular the surface and away from the user interface, means for determining or estimating, on the basis of the image(s) of the image providing element, a relative movement between the unit and one or more items imaged by the image providing element and for providing the information on the basis of the determined or estimated relative movement, means for outputting the information to the apparatus and for receiving second information from the apparatus, means for controlling the user interface to provide the second information received from the apparatus, the apparatus comprising; means for providing visible information, means for receiving the information from the unit, the apparatus being adapted to act in accordance with the received information, and means for providing part of or all of the visible information, as the second information, to the unit. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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