EXECUTE A COMMAND

• US 20120005632A1
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Broyles, Paul J. III, Graham, Christoph J.
• Application Number:
  US12/827,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20120005632A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• 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: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015

Abstract

A method for executing a command including detecting a gesture from a user with a sensor, identifying the gesture and a command associated with the gesture, and identifying at least one corresponding device to execute the command on and configuring a device to execute the command on at least one of the corresponding devices.

Claims

1. A method for executing a command comprising:

detecting a gesture from a user with a sensor;

identifying the gesture and a command associated with the gesture; and

identifying at least one corresponding device to execute the command on and configuring a device to execute the command on at least one of the corresponding devices.

2. The method for executing a command of claim 1 further comprising detecting at least one corresponding device coupled to the device.

3. The method for executing a command of claim 2 further comprising identifying at least one protocol utilized by at least one of the corresponding devices.

4. The method for executing a command of claim 3 wherein executing the command on at least one of the corresponding devices includes utilizing at least one of the protocols to transmit the command.

5. The method for executing a command of claim 1 further comprising identifying at least one of the corresponding devices to not execute the command on.

6. The method for executing a command of claim 1 further comprising identifying another command associated with the gesture and at least one of the corresponding devices to execute another command on.

7. The method for executing a command of claim 1 further comprising prompting the user to identify which of the corresponding devices to execute the command on.

8. A device comprising:

a sensor configured to detect a gesture from a user in an environment around the device;

a communication component configured to couple the device to corresponding devices; and

a processor to identify a command associated with the gesture and at least one of the corresponding devices to execute the command on.

9. The device of claim 8 further comprising a display device configured to render a user interface of at least one of the corresponding devices.

10. The device of claim 8 wherein the sensor includes at least one from the group consisting of an image capture device, a 3D depth image capturing device, a touch device, a proximity sensor, an infra red device, a motion detection device, a GPS, a stereo device, a microphone, a mouse, and a keyboard.

11. The device of claim 8 further comprising a database configured to store at least one recognized gesture and information corresponding to at least one of the recognized gesture.

12. The device of claim 8 wherein the gesture application configures the communication component to identify at least one protocol utilized by at least one of the corresponding devices in response to coupling to the corresponding devices.

13. The device of claim 8 wherein the communication component includes at least one from the group consisting of a wireless device, an infrared device, and a physical port.

14. The device of claim 12 wherein a first protocol utilized to execute the command on a first corresponding device is different from a second protocol utilized to execute the command on a second corresponding device.

15. A computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium comprising:

a gesture application configured to utilize a sensor to detect a gesture from a user;

wherein the gesture application is additionally configured to identify a command associated with the gesture and at least one corresponding device which the command can be executed on; and

wherein the gesture application is further configured to instruct a communication component to utilize at least one protocol of the corresponding devices when executing the command.

16. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 15 wherein the gesture application is additionally configured to instruct a display device to render a user interface for the user to interact with.

17. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 16 wherein the user interface prompts the user to associate a gesture with at least one command.

18. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 15 wherein the user interface prompts the user to associate at least one of the commands with at least one of the corresponding devices.

19. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 15 wherein a gesture includes at least one from the group consisting of an audio gesture, a touch gesture, a visual gesture, and a location based gesture.

20. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 15 wherein a command includes at least one from the group consisting of a power on instruction, a power off instruction, a standby instruction, a mode of operation instruction, a volume up instruction, a volume down instruction, a channel up instruction, a channel down instruction, and a menu instruction.