INFORMATION DISPLAY WITH OPTICAL DATA CAPTURE

• US 20090322706A1
• Filed: 06/26/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Austin, Timothy B.
• Application Number:
  US12/147,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20090322706A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/175
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Systems, devices, and/or methods that facilitate information display with optical data capture are presented. A display surface comprises optically selectable materials and/or contact transparent materials. The disclosed subject matter facilitates displaying information on a surface and collecting optical information about objects interacting with the display surface. The collected optical data, at least in part, is used in determinations related to updating display information. Additional sensors can be incorporated into the system to provide additional information that can be employed in determinations relating to updating display information.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates an information display with optical data capture comprising:

a display surface whereon information is displayed;

an optical data capture component that captures optical data through regions of the display surface that can also display information; and

a display controller component that updates the displayed information based at least in part on captured optical data.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the display surface further comprises at least one contact transparent material.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the contact transparent material comprises one or more portions of the display surface.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the display surface further comprises at least one optically selectable material.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the optically selectable material comprises one or more portions of the display surface.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the display surface further comprises at least one contact transparent material and at least one optically selectable material.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the at least one contact transparent material and at least one optically selectable material are spatially distinct, nested, or some combination thereof

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising an RFID component that can access an RFID tag, a proximity sensor component that can determine the proximity of an object with respect to the display surface, a physical sensor that can sense a physical, electrical, or chemical attribute of an object interacting with the display surface, or some combination thereof.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the displayed information is selectably rotatable by a predetermined amount.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the displayed information is dynamically modified to present predetermined user interfaces based at least in part upon the type of optical data to be captured, a number of users, a context of a user, or some combination thereof.

11. The system of claim 1, embodied in a point of sale system, an information kiosk system, a security system, a banking system, a health and wellness system, a customer service system, or some combination thereof.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one contact transparent material to facilitate optical masking of objects interacting with the display surface.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one material having contact transparency properties based at least in part on internal dyes, diffraction gratings, refraction gratings, lensing, deformable surfaces, material surface patterning or distress, inks, laminar structures, molecular or crystalline structures or arrangements, or some combination thereof.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one optically selectable material wherein that material is smart glass or switchable glass.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the optical data captured is in at least the visible spectrum, UV spectrum, IR spectrum, a predetermined narrow spectral band, a predetermined broad spectral band, or some combination thereof.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the optical data captured comprises optical data from a plurality of perspectives relative to an imaged object, optical data over time, optical data at one or more levels of zoom, optical data from a plane not co-planar with the display surface, or some combination thereof.

17. An electronic device comprising:

a display surface whereon information is displayed;

an optical data capture component that captures optical data, related to objects interacting with the display surface, through regions of the display surface that can also display information; and

a display controller component that updates the displayed information based at least in part on captured optical data.

18. A method that facilitates information display with optical data capture comprising:

displaying an image on a display surface;

capturing optical data related to an object interacting with the display surface through a region of the display surface that is capable of displaying information;

updating a stored value that facilitates updating the displayed image, based at least in part upon the captured optical data.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising accessing data related to an RFID component that can access an RFID tag, a proximity sensor component that can determine the proximity of an object with respect to the display surface, a physical sensor that can sense a physical, electrical, or chemical attribute of an object interacting with the display surface, or some combination thereof.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein capturing optical data occurs through a portion of the display surface comprising a contact transparent material, an optically selectable material, smart glass, switchable glass, or some combination thereof.