Gesture-Controlled Interactive Information Board

• US 20130159940A1
• Filed: 08/20/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Technological University
• Original Assignee: International Technological University
• Inventors: Duffy, Mikel, Jin, Taiheng (Matthew), Huang, May, Hecker, Barbara Jill
• Application Number:
  US13/589,387
• Publication Number:
  US 20130159940A1
• 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

Abstract

A method of controlling an information board comprises the steps of sensing a gesture using a gesture capturing controller, determining a type of action having provided the gesture expression from the gesture capturing controller, where the type of command is one of a navigation request. Depending on the determined type of gesture, user interface elements of a spatial configuration are displayed.

Claims

1. A method of controlling an information board comprising a visual information display, the method comprising the steps of:

sensing a human body gesture given to the gesture controller for the visual information display, determining a type of implement having provided the sensed activation of a control or interaction on the gesture sensitive display, said type of implement being one of at least a command type and a navigation type, and depending on the determined type of implement, displaying user interface elements of a first spatial configuration when the determined type of implement is the command type and displaying user interface elements of a second spatial configuration when the determined type of implement is the navigation type.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the human initiated gesture corresponds to a human hand or body part movement.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the human initiated gesture corresponds to a body part position and movement characteristics.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of sensing a gesture is based on the body part distance to the gesture capturing device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of sensing a gesture involves providing selection information in the form of measuring the body part gesture speed information.

6. An information board display terminal comprising a digital display and:

gesture sensing means for sensing an activation of a control or interaction on the gesture sensitive display, determining means for determining a type of implement having provided the sensed activation of a control or interaction on the gesture sensitive display, said type of implement being one of at least a command type and a navigation type and control means configured for, depending on the determined type of implement, displaying user interface elements of a first spatial configuration when the determined type of implement is the command type and displaying user interface elements of a second spatial configuration when the determined type of implement is the navigation type.

7. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the first and second spatial configurations correspond to a respective first and second spatial distribution of user interface elements.

8. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the step of sensing a gesture is based on the body part distance to the gesture capturing device.

9. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the step of sensing a gesture involves providing selection information in the form of measuring the body part movement speed information.

10. The terminal according to claim 6, wherein the gesture capture sensing means comprises means for providing activation of a control or interaction on information comprising information regarding spatial distribution of the gesture controlled information.

11. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer readable software instructions embodied therein, wherein the computer readable software instructions comprise:

computer readable software instructions capable of sensing a gesture activation of a control or interaction on the gesture sensitive display, computer readable software instructions capable of determining a type of implement having provided the sensed activation of a control or interaction on the sensitive display, said type of implement being one of at least a command type and a navigation type, and computer readable software instructions capable of, depending on the determined type of implement, displaying user interface elements of a first spatial configuration when the determined type of implement is the command type and displaying user interface elements of a second spatial configuration when the determined type of implement is the navigation type.

12. The computer program product according to claim 11, wherein the computer readable software instructions that are capable of sensing a gesture are further capable of providing gesture information in the form of at least one of distance from device information, body part movement speed information and spatial distribution of gesture initiated activation of a control or interaction on the information display.