METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING MOTION BASED ON MOTION SENSOR AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME

• US 20100216517A1
• Filed: 02/18/2010
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HONG, Hyun Su, JUNG, Woo Jin, PARK, Sun Young
• Application Number:
  US12/707,695
• Publication Number:
  US 20100216517A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• 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 method for recognizing motion based on a motion sensor and a mobile terminal using the same are provided. The method includes determining an input type of the user'"'"'s motion; compensating output data of the input user'"'"'s motion using a compensated parameter value set corresponding to the determined input type of the user'"'"'s motion; and recognizing the input user'"'"'s motion by the compensated output data. The mobile terminal can uniformly recognize the user'"'"'s motion regardless of the position of the mobile terminal in which a tapping motion is input and the direction in which a snapping motion is input, and thus the motion recognition rate of the mobile terminal is significantly improved.

Claims

1. A method for recognizing a user'"'"'s motion in a mobile terminal having a motion sensor, comprising:

determining an input type of the user'"'"'s motion,

compensating output data of the input user'"'"'s motion using a compensated parameter value corresponding to the determined input type of the user'"'"'s motion; and

recognizing the input user'"'"'s motion using the compensated output data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the input type comprises determining position of the mobile terminal in which the user'"'"'s motion is input.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the input type comprises determining an input direction of the user'"'"'s motion.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising setting the compensated parameter value corresponding to the input type of the user'"'"'s motion.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein setting the compensated parameter value comprises:

displaying at least one user input required;

extracting output data corresponding to the at least user input; and

determining the compensated parameter value based on the extracted output data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein extracting the output data comprises computing an average value of the at least one user input repeated in a predetermined position of the mobile terminal.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein determining the compensated parameter value comprises comparing output data of the user'"'"'s motion input in a first position that is the basis set in the mobile terminal with output data of the user'"'"'s motion input in a second position that is other position than the first position.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein determining the predetermined compensated parameter value comprises comparing output data of the user'"'"'s motion input in a first direction that is the basis set in the mobile terminal with output data of the user'"'"'s motion input in a second direction that is other direction than the first direction.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the output data corresponds to an input strength of the user'"'"'s motion.

10. A mobile terminal for motion recognition, comprising:

a sensor unit sensing an input of a user'"'"'s motion;

a data analysis unit analyzing at least one data of an input position, an input direction and an input strength of the user'"'"'s motion;

a compensation unit compensating the input strength of the user'"'"'s motion using a compensated parameter value set corresponding to the analyzed input position of the mobile terminal or the input direction; and

a motion recognition unit recognizing the input of the user'"'"'s motion by applying the compensated input strength.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, further comprising a compensated parameter value setting unit calculating the compensated parameter value based on at least one data received from the data analysis unit, and setting the calculated compensated parameter value corresponding to the position of the corresponding mobile terminal or the input direction.

12. A method for recognizing a user'"'"'s motion in a mobile terminal having a motion sensor, comprising:

determining an input type of the user'"'"'s motion in a specific position of the mobile terminal;

extracting a compensated parameter value corresponding to the determined input type of the user'"'"'s motion from a predetermined compensated database;

generating a compensated input strength using the extracted compensated parameter value; and

recognizing the input user'"'"'s motion using the compensated input strength.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein determining the input type comprises determining an input direction of the user'"'"'s motion.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the predetermined compensated database is obtained by:

displaying at least one user input required in the mobile terminal;

sensing the at least one user input;

measuring an input strength for a preset number of times; and

determining the compensated parameter value by computing an average value of the at least one user input repeated in a predetermined position of the mobile terminal.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing the determined compensated parameter value in the predetermined compensated database.