METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING LOCATION OF A TOUCHED BODY PART

• US 20130085410A1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Published: 04/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Alberth, William P., Alameh, Rachid M., Dickinson, Timothy
• Granted Patent: US 9,924,907 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/557
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0295 adapted for recording user messages or annotations
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/25 User interfaces for surgical systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1114 Tracking parts of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4824 Touch or pain perception evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/748 Selection of a region of interest, e.g. using a graphics tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

A method and system for identifying location of a touched body part. The method includes initializing a tracking system for monitoring travel of a pointer useful for indicating a touching operation, wherein the touching operation is performed on a body part. In addition, the method includes monitoring the travel of the pointer from a predetermined first location to a second location, wherein the second location coincides with a touch endpoint on a body part; and identifying the location of body part that was touched by the pointer.

Claims

1. A method for identifying location of a touched body part, comprising the steps of:

a) initializing a tracking system for monitoring travel of a pointer useful for indicating a touching operation;

wherein the touching operation is performed on a body part;

b) monitoring the travel of the pointer from a predetermined first location to a second location, wherein the second location coincides with a touch endpoint on a body part, and;

c) identifying location of body part touched.

2. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of identifying the location of body part touched employs a galvanic skin response sensor.

3. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of monitoring the travel of the pointer employs an accelerometer.

4. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of monitoring the travel of the pointer employs a gyroscope.

5. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of monitoring the travel of the pointer employs detecting gesture movement corresponding to the pointer.

6. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the pointer is selected from the group consisting of:

a hand, a finger, a foot, a toe, a pointing device.

7. The method claimed in claim 1, further comprising the step of inputting the identified location of the touched body part into a wearable wellness device.

8. The method claimed in claim 7, further comprising the step of displaying a body image upon the wearable device, including highlighting the touched body part.

9. The method claimed in claim 8, further comprising the step of displaying a plurality of wellness conditions, on the wearable device, applicable to the touched body part.

10. The method claimed in claim 9, further comprising the step of enabling a drag and drop operation of the plurality of wellness conditions to the highlighted body part to be performed upon the wearable device.

11. The method claimed in claim 10, further comprising the steps of:

diagnosing the wellness condition associated with the highlighted body part;

analyzing the wellness condition associated with the highlighted body part;

storing the wellness condition associated with the highlighted body part;

updating a look up table with the stored wellness condition associated with the highlighted body part.

12. The method claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of monitoring the travel of the pointer further comprises processing images of the travel of the pointer.

13. A method for enabling selection of wellness conditions upon a display of a wearable device, comprising the steps of:

providing a look up table that includes wellness conditions associated with a human or animal;

displaying the wellness conditions of the look up table as a first selectable user interface for the wearable device;

highlighting selection of one or more of the wellness conditions;

enabling a drag and drop operation of the selected one or more wellness conditions from the first selectable user interface to a second selectable user interface of the wearable device;

wherein the first selectable user interface dynamically changed to the second selectable user interface prior to completion of the drag and drop operation.

14. The method claimed in claim 13, wherein the drag and drop operation is a single action gesture to identify a wellness condition and location of associated body part relevant to the wellness condition.

15. A system for enabling selection of wellness conditions upon a display of a wearable device, comprising:

a processor communicatively coupled to a plurality of sensors of the wearable device for monitoring travel of a pointer useful for indicating a touching operation, wherein the touching operation is performed on a body part;

a display including a user interface for displaying a plurality of wellness conditions in a first selectable user interface for the wearable device;

wherein the display is capable of highlighting selection of one or more of the wellness conditions, and thereafter dynamically changing the first selectable user interface to a second selectable user interface prior upon completion of a drag and drop operation including a selected wellness condition.

16. The system claimed in claim 15, further comprising a look up table including the plurality of wellness conditions.