PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC FUNCTIONS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME

• US 20120268580A1
• Filed: 04/11/2012
• Published: 10/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KIM, Hyun, Kim, Hyoung Sun, Park, Nam Shik, Suh, Young Ho, Kim, Myung Eun, Jeong, In Cheol, Lee, Joo Haeng, Cho, Joon Myun, Lee, Moo Hun, Kim, Kun Ouk, Yeom, Jeong Nam, Vladimirov, Blagovest
• Application Number:
  US13/444,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20120268580A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/77
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed is a portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions, including: an input projector providing a user interface screen for user input and mounted with a camera for capturing and recognizing a user behavior on the user interface screen; a main board recognizing a user command according to the user behavior and generating service and contents according to the user command; and an output projector outputting the generated contents.

Claims

1. A portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions, comprising:

an input projector providing a user interface screen for user input and mounted with a camera for capturing and recognizing a user behavior on the user interface screen;

a main board recognizing a user command according to the user behavior and controlling to provide service and contents according to the user command; and

an output projector outputting the generated contents.

2. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, wherein the output projector is mounted with a camera for recognizing and tracking the user behavior.

3. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, wherein the main board recognizes a user command according to a finger gesture on the user interface screen and controls to provide the contents according to the user command.

4. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, wherein the main board receives image information from the camera and provides functions for ambient motion detection, face detection, face recognition, finger tip detection, finger gesture recognition and object detection and recognition.

5. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, further comprising:

a microphone receiving a user'"'"'s voice, wherein the main board controls to recognize user information and a user command according to the user'"'"'s voice.

6. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, wherein the main board transmits the user command to a control unit connected through a network and controls to receive contents according to the user command from the control unit.

7. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, further comprising:

vertical motion motors provided at lower ends of the projectors and the cameras to vertically rotate;

horizontal motion motors provided at lower ends of the vertical motion motors to horizontally rotate the projectors and the cameras; and

an entire rotary motor provided at lower ends of the horizontal motion motors to rotate the projectors and the cameras in their entirety.

8. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, wherein the cameras are mounted at lower ends of the projectors, respectively.

9. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, further comprising:

a knowledge base storing basic information on a user, geometric information and semantic information on a space, device and object information in an environment, and agent state-related information based on ontology,

wherein the main board controls to provide the information at the query request.

10. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 1, wherein the main board controls to learns a behavior pattern in which a user uses a robotic computer and estimate a current state of the user to actively provide related applications and services in accordance with the present state.

11. A portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions, comprising:

an input projector providing a user interface screen for user input and mounted with a camera capturing and recognizing a user behavior on the user interface screen;

a main board recognizing a user command according to the user behavior and controlling to receive service and contents according to the user command from a control unit connected through a network; and

an output projector outputting the generated contents.

12. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 11, wherein the main board recognizes a user command according to a finger gesture on the user interface screen and controls to receive service and contents according to the user command.

13. The portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions of claim 11, wherein the main board receives image information from the camera and provides functions for ambient motion detection, face detection, face recognition, finger tip detection, and object information and receive service and contents according to the user command from the control unit connected through the network.

14. A method for operating a portable computing device with intelligent robotic functions, comprising:

providing a user interface screen and a screen for outputting services and contents;

recognizing a user command according to a user behavior on the user interface screen; and

outputting service and contents according to the user command.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

recognizing and tracking the user behavior.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

detecting a movement state of the user; and

correcting a position according to the movement of the user.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving image information from the camera to provide functions for ambient motion detection, face detection, face recognition, finger tip detection, and object information.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

recognizing user information and user command according to a user'"'"'s voice.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

transmitting the user command to a server connected through a network and receiving the service and contents according to the user command from the server.

20. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

storing basic information on a user, geometric information and semantic information on a space, device and object information in an environment, and agent state-related information based on ontology and rules; and

providing the information at the query request.

21. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

learning a behavior pattern in which a user uses a robotic computer and estimating a current state of the user to actively provide related applications and services in accordance with the current state.