Wireless Mobile Phone Methods

• US 20110019001A1
• Filed: 07/20/2010
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
• Original Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
• Inventors: Rhoads, Geoffrey B., Rodriguez, Tony F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,457,449 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/158
• 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: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

A user gestures with a wireless mobile phone device to control some aspect of its operation, or the operation of a remote system with which the device communicates. (The gestures may be sensed by tracking movement of a feature across a field of view of a mobile phone device camera.) The resultant operation may additionally depend on other data obtained by the wireless device, e.g., obtained from an electronic or physical object, or sensed from the environment. A variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Claims

1. In a portable device with an associated camera system, a method of user interaction including the acts:

sensing image data using the camera system of the portable device;

deriving identification information from the image data; and

by reference to said identification information, adapting a user interface of said device.

2. The method of claim 1 that includes determining whether the sensed image data corresponds to first or second talismans, and adapting the user interface in first or second respective manners.

3. The method of claim 1 in which the identification information serves to identify a particular user of the portable device.

4. The method of claim 2 in which one of said talismans comprises a steganographically-encoded business card.

5. The method of claim 2 in which said adapting the user interface comprises adapting the user interface to perform a first action if a first gesture is made with the first talisman, and performing a second, different, action if said first gesture is made with the second talisman.

6. The method of claim 1 that comprises employing one of plural lists of favorites web sites, in dependence on said derived identification information.

7. The method of claim 1 that includes employing one of plural desktop arrangements, in dependence on said derived identification information.

8. The method of claim 1 that includes tailoring a selection of application programs presented to a user, in dependence on said derived identification information.

9. A method employing image data captured by a 2D sensor in a handheld wireless communications device, the method comprising the acts:

at a system remote from said handheld wireless communications device, receiving data including said image data and device data, the device data enabling a response to be sent to said device;

at said remote system, deriving identification information from said received image data; and

invoking an action based, at least in part, on the identification information derived from the image data by the remote system.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the received data also includes GPS-based location data, and the invoked action depends on the derived identification information, the location data, and the device data.

11. A method responsive to audio or visual information, comprising the acts:

at a first computer at a first location, receiving data comprising data resulting from processing of audio or visual information by a handheld wireless communications device;

at said first computer determining, by reference to the received data, which of plural possible further computers should receive at least part of said data, and sending same to the determined further computer;

at said further computer, identifying information corresponding to the sent data; and

taking an action associated with said handheld wireless communications device, in accordance with the identified information.