METHODS CIRCUITS APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACING WITH AN ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE

• US 20120176414A1
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jungo Connectivity Ltd. (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Extreme Reality Ltd.
• Inventors: Givon, Dor
• Granted Patent: US 9,218,126 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

Disclosed are methods, circuits, apparatus and systems for human machine interfacing with a computational platform or any other electronic device such as a cell-phone, smart-phone, e-book, notebook computer, tablet computer, etc. According to some embodiments, there may be provided an adaptive touch-screen input arrangement such as a keyboard, keypad or any other touch screen input arrangements including one or more input elements such as rendered or projected keys or buttons which may be projected onto or rendered on a touch screen display. The adaptive touch-screen input arrangement may be adapted to alter the size, shape or location of input elements within proximity of a finger, limb or implement used by a user to touch the screen.

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13. A user interface apparatus, comprising:

a touch-screen input arrangement including a touchscreen and graphics processing circuitry for rendering on said touchscreen one or more user input elements;

a touchless sensor adapted to sense a position or motion vector of a user finger, limb or implement relative to said screen; and

wherein said graphics processing circuitry is adapted to alter a size, position or shape of a rendered input element based on an indication from said touchless sensor.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said touchless sensor is selected from the group of sensors consisting of (1) proximity sensors, (2) image sensors, (3) image sensor arrays, (4) electrostatic sensors, and (5) capacitive sensors.

15. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the size of an input element in proximity with a position of a finger, limb or implement is enlarged.

16. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a battery;

a touch-screen input arrangement including a touchscreen and graphics processing circuitry for rendering on said touchscreen one or more user input elements;

a touchless sensor adapted to sense a position or motion vector of a user finger, limb or implement relative to said screen; and

wherein said graphics processing circuitry is adapted to alter a size, position or shape of a rendered input element based on an indication from said touchless sensor.

17. The device according to claim 16, wherein said touchless sensor is selected from the group of sensors consisting of (1) proximity sensors, (2) image sensors, (3) image sensor arrays, (4) electrostatic sensors, and (5) capacitive sensors.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein the size of an input element in proximity with a position of a finger, limb or implement is enlarged.