INTUITIVE COMPUTING METHODS AND SYSTEMS
First Claim
1. A method of sensor-based, human-powered navigation along a route, comprising the acts:
- determining a route to a destination;
sensing a user'"'"'s progress along the determined route using one or more sensors in an electronic apparatus conveyed by the user; and
providing feedback to the user to aid in navigation;
wherein the feedback comprises a pattern of clicks that grows more frequent as the user progresses towards the destination.
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Abstract
A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user'"'"'s environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone'"'"'s camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user'"'"'s apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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35 Claims
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1. A method of sensor-based, human-powered navigation along a route, comprising the acts:
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determining a route to a destination; sensing a user'"'"'s progress along the determined route using one or more sensors in an electronic apparatus conveyed by the user; and providing feedback to the user to aid in navigation; wherein the feedback comprises a pattern of clicks that grows more frequent as the user progresses towards the destination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of operating a camera-equipped portable device that processes image data, the device being conveyed by a user, the method including the following acts:
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performing an initial set of plural different image processing operations; and without express user command, invoking additional image processing operations as circumstances warrant; wherein the device acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of operating a smart phone equipped with a magnetic sensor, the method characterized by sensing magnetic signals emitted by plural electromagnetic emitters in a retail environment, and providing navigation or product information to a user based thereon.
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23. A method comprising the acts:
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in a first phase of operation, capturing a sequence of imagery from a user'"'"'s surroundings; processing the sequence to recognize features therein, and identify related information, said processing being performed at least in part by a portable apparatus conveyed by the user; and in a second phase of operation following the first, presenting the related information to the user using an output device associated with the portable apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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- 25. A linked data method characterized by restricting a user'"'"'s ability to access assertions, or make assertions, about a physical object unless the user has a demonstrable relationship with the object, or with another user who earlier made such an assertion.
- 27. A linked data method characterized by checking motion information based on data produced by a sensor conveyed by a user, and restricting the user'"'"'s ability to access assertions, or make assertions, relating to a physical object if the motion information indicates the user is moving in a restricted manner.
- 29. A processing device including a processor, memory, a touch screen, a location determination module, and at least one audio or image sensor, the memory storing instructions configuring the processor to present on the touch screen a user interface, a first part of the user interface presenting information from the sensor, and a second part of the user interface simultaneously presenting information related to a location of the device.
- 31. A processing device including a processor, memory, a screen, and an image sensor, the memory storing instructions configuring the processor to present on the touch screen data corresponding to imagery sensed by the image sensor, the processor further presenting a sweeping radar trace effect on the touch screen to indicate device activity in processing image data.
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34. A method of sound source localization, comprising the acts:
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sampling ambient audio using plural wireless phones within an environment; sending audio information sensed by a first phone to a second phone; discerning location data relating the position of the first phone to the second location; and in the second phone, processing the location data, audio information received from the first phone, and audio sampled by the second phone, to discern a sound source direction relative to the second phone. - View Dependent Claims (35)
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