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• US 20120137259A1
• Filed: 03/26/2010
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Campbell, Robert, Suggs, Bradley, McCarthy, John P.
• Granted Patent: US 9,213,410 B2
• 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: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042

Abstract

A method for accessing a file on a computing machine including configuring a sensor to detect an object and a user interacting with the object, associating the object with at least one file on the computing machine, and configuring a display device to render an associated file being accessed in response to the user interacting with the object.

Claims

1. A method for accessing a file on a computing machine comprising:

configuring a sensor to detect an object and a user interacting with the object;

associating the object with at least one file on the computing machine; and

configuring a display device to render an associated file being accessed in response to the user interacting with the object.

2. The method for accessing a file on a computing machine of claim 1 further comprising configuring the sensor to detect at least one gesture made by the user if the user is interacting with the object.

3. The method for accessing a file on a computing machine of claim 2 further comprising utilizing at least one of the gestures to associate the object with at least one of the files on the computing machine.

4. The method for accessing a file on a computing machine of claim 2 wherein an associated file is accessed in response to at least one of the gestures made by the user.

5. The method for accessing a file on a computing machine of claim 2 further comprising editing an associated file in response to at least one of the gestures.

6. The method for accessing a file on a computing machine of claim 1 further comprising configuring the sensor to identify the object in response to information detected from the sensor and associate at least one of the files with the object in response to identifying the object.

7. The method for accessing a file on a computing machine of claim 6 wherein detecting information of the object includes configuring the sensor to scan a bar code of the object.

8. A computing machine comprising:

a processor;

at least one sensor configured to detect an object and a user interacting with the object;

a display device configured to render an associated file;

a file application executed by the processor from a storage medium and configured to associate at least one file of the computing machine with the object and configure the display device to render an associated file being accessed in response to the user interacting with the object.

9. The computing machine of claim 8 wherein the display device is configured to render the user interacting with the object.

10. The computing machine of claim 8 wherein the sensor is configured to capture at least one gesture from the user if the user is interacting with the object and the file application utilizes at least one of the gestures to access an associated file.

11. The computing machine of claim 10 wherein a gesture includes at least one from the group consisting of a touch gesture, an audio gesture, and a visual gesture.

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

a the application configured to utilize a sensor to identify an object and detect a user interacting with the object;

wherein the application is additionally configured associate the object with at least one the on a computing machine in response to the user interacting with the object; and

wherein the file application is further configured to render a user interface of an associated file being accessed.

13. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 12 wherein the sensor is a 3D depth sensor configured to track the user interacting with the object along at least one axis.

14. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 12 wherein identifying the object includes configuring the sensor to identify at least one dimension of the object.

15. The computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium of claim 12 wherein the sensor captures an image of the object for the file application to utilize when identifying the object.