SMART PHONE LIKE GESTURE INTERFACE FOR WEAPON MOUNTED SYSTEMS

• US 20140019918A1
• Filed: 07/10/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Incorporated (BAE Systems Plc)
• Original Assignee: Systems Oasys Llc Bae
• Inventors: ROSNER, BRETT
• Granted Patent: US 9,280,277 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A smart phone like gesture based interface for controlling weapon mounted system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a gesture input is detected via the gesture based interface. One or more inputs and/or one or more outputs associated with the detected gesture interface is then identified. The weapon mounted system is then controlled based on the identified one or more inputs and/or one or more outputs.

Claims

1. A weapon mounted system including a smart phone like gesture based interface for controlling the weapon mounted system, comprising:

a gesture interface;

memory including a gesture interpreter module; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled to the gesture interface and the memory and for executing instructions in the gesture interpreter module to perform operations comprising;

receiving a gesture input via the gesture interface;

interpreting the gesture input as one or more gestures; and

controlling one or more inputs and/or outputs of the weapon mounted system based on the interpreted one or more gestures.

2. The weapon mounted system of claim 1, wherein the gesture interface is a smart phone like gesture interface.

3. The weapon mounted system of claim 1, wherein the gesture interface is a smart phone like touch screen configured to receive gesture inputs.

4. The weapon mounted system of claim 3, wherein the gesture interface is configured to receive a predefined movement of a finger or hand on the touch screen of the weapon mounted system.

5. The weapon mounted system of claim 3, wherein the gesture interface is configured to receive a predefined movement across the touch screen of the weapon mounted system.

6. The weapon mounted system of claim 4, wherein the gesture is a swipe of a finger from center to corner of the touch screen.

7. The weapon mounted system of claim 1, wherein the inputs are similar to input functions received from components selected from the group consisting of multiple buttons, knobs, switches, multi-position switch, infrared imagery, network interface and communication connector.

8. The weapon mounted system of claim 1, wherein the network interface is a wired interface or a wireless interface configured to receive inputs from an external gesture interface or touch pad. The weapon mounted system of claim 1, wherein the outputs are similar to output functions coming from devices selected from the group consisting of a laser, an eyepiece, a multi-color light emitting diode (LED), a video and a network interface

9. A method of controlling a weapon mounted system comprising a smart phone like gesture interface, the method comprising:

detecting a gesture input via the gesture interface;

identifying one or more inputs and/or one or more outputs associated with the detected gesture interface; and

controlling the weapon mounted system based on the identified one or more inputs and/or one or more outputs.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the gesture interface is a smart phone like touch screen or touch pad.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the gesture interface comprises a predefined movement of a finger on the touch screen of the weapon mounted system.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the gesture interface comprises a predefined movement across the touch screen of the weapon mounted system.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the gesture is a swipe of a finger from center to corner of the touch screen.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the inputs are similar to input functions received from components selected from the group consisting of multiple buttons, knobs, switches, multi- position switch, infrared imagery, network interface and communication connector.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the network interface is a wired interface or a wireless interface. The method of claim 10, wherein the outputs are similar to output functions coming from devices selected from the group consisting of a laser, an eyepiece, a multi-color light emitting diode (LED), and a network interface.

16. A computer-readable storage medium including instructions that are configured, when executed by a computing system, to perform a method of controlling a weapon mounted system comprising a smart phone like gesture interface, the method comprising:

detecting a gesture input via the gesture interface;

identifying one or more inputs and/or one or more outputs associated with the detected gesture interface; and

controlling the weapon mounted system based on the identified one or more inputs and/or one or more outputs.