INTERACTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENSING MOVEMENT

• US 20120001766A1
• Filed: 03/03/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Westerink, Joanne Henriette Desiree Monique, Bialoskorski, Leticia Sofia Susanna, Van Den Broek, Egidius Leon
• Granted Patent: US 9,532,428 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/686.1
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/20 Controlling the colour of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/155 Coordinated control of two or more light sources

Abstract

A system for sensing emotions, which produce color or sound variation in a series of elements, which experience different patterns of movement.

Claims

1. A system for communication (100), the system comprising:

at least two functionally connected elements (1-4) adapted by means of their mass and provision to be moved by a user, each element comprising a light or sound emitting device (5-8),

at least one motion sensor (9) for sensing motion of the elements,

a control system (10) for controlling the emission of the light or sound from said two of more elements, the control system being arranged to receive inputs from said one or more motion sensors and configured to, in response to input indicating the movement of a first element, control the light or sound emitted by the first element and at least one other element.

2. The system (101) according to claim 1, wherein the one or more motion sensors are distributed so that each element further comprises a motion sensor.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said control of light emission preferably comprises controlling color and/or luminosity of the emitted light.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said control of light emission also comprises inducing periodical variations of the emitted light.

5. The system (102) according to claim 1, further comprising an information storage unit 11 for storing inputs from said one or more motion sensors.

6. The system (102) according to claim 5, wherein the control system 10 is preferably further arranged to receive inputs from said information storage unit 11 and, in response to said received inputs, configured to selectively induce said elements 1-4 to produce variation in their light emission.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the control system further comprises software means for determining one or more motion property characteristics of the motion of a first element from the input indicating the movement of the first element, and software means for mapping the determined motion property characteristics into a provided light color and/or intensity space, the control system being further configured to induce the first element to emit light according to its motion property characteristics'"'"' position in the light color and/or intensity space.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said light emitting device comprises LEDs emitting light having diverse coloration.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said light emitting device comprises a polychromatic source of light and optical filters.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein, in each element, said light emitting device is arranged so that emitted light is visible from at least two opposing sides of the element.

11. A method for communication, the method comprising the steps of:

generating motion of elements in a system for communication comprising two or more functionally connected elements adapted by means of their mass and provision to be moved by a user, each element comprising a light or sound emitting device;

sensing the motion of said elements; and

controlling the emission of the light or sound from a first element in response to a sensed motion of the first element and/or at least one other element.

12. The method according to the claim 11 wherein the third step is:

storing information on said motion of elements

13. The method according to the claim 12 further comprising the step of:

controlling the emission of the light from said two of more elements by inducing said elements to produce variation in their light emission based on stored chronological sequences of their motion.

14. The method according to the claim 11 wherein controlling the emission of the light from a first element in response to a sensed motion of the first element and/or at least one other element is performed in real time.

15. A computer program product for instructing a processing unit to execute the steps of the method according to claim 11 when the product is run on a computer.