DISPLAY DEVICE AND NOTIFICATION METHOD

• US 20140152545A1
• Filed: 07/25/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ouchi, Kazushige, Itoh, Yoshiyasu, Nagata, Hirokazu
• Application Number:
  US13/951,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20140152545A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• 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

According to one embodiment, a display device includes: a display; an audio output module; a recognition module configured to recognize a time-series motion of a user; an issuing module configured to issue an operating instruction when the recognized time-series motion is a predetermined time-series motion; and a notification module configured to, when the time-series motion is recognized, notify the user of the recognized time-series motion by at least one of outputting of audio and displaying of an image on the display, regardless of whether the operating instruction is issued based on the recognized time-series motion.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display;

an audio output module;

a recognition module configured to recognize a time-series motion of a user;

an issuing module configured to issue an operating instruction when the recognized time-series motion is a predetermined time-series motion; and

a notification module configured to, when the time-series motion is recognized, notify the user of the recognized time-series motion by at least one of outputting of audio and displaying of an image on the display, regardless of whether the operating instruction is issued based on the recognized time-series motion.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the issuing module is configured to issue the operating instruction when the recognized time-series motion corresponds to a time-series motion specified in a current operating mode based on setting information that specifies a time-series motion by which the operating instruction is issued in each operating mode of the display device.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the notification module is configured to, when the operating instruction is issued based on the recognized time-series motion, notify the user of the time-series motion prior to a motion corresponding to the operating instruction.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the notification module is configured to, while receiving the time-series motion of the user, notify the user of an operating guide indicating a correspondence relation between the predetermined time-series motion and the operating instruction by at least one of outputting of audio and displaying of a guide image.

5. The display device of claim 1, further comprising:

an image capturing module configured to capture the user, wherein

the recognition module is configured to recognize a time-series motion of a predetermined part of the captured user.

6. The display device of claim 5, wherein

the recognition module is configured to recognize a motion of a hand of the user, and

the issuing module is configured to issue the operating instruction based on whether a waving motion of the hand of the user is made in a predetermined direction.

7. The display device of claim 1, further comprising:

a remote controller configured to be used by the user, wherein

the recognition module is configured to recognize the time-series motion of the user based on a motion of the remote controller.

8. The display device of claim 1, wherein display of an image indicating the time-series motion is display of an animation image corresponding to the time-series motion.

9. A notification method of a display device comprising a display and an audio output module, the notification method comprising:

recognizing, by a recognition module, a time-series motion of a user;

issuing, by an issuing module, an operating instruction when the recognized time-series motion is a predetermined time-series motion; and

notifying, by a notification module, when the time-series motion is recognized, the user of the recognized time-series motion by at least one of outputting of audio and displaying of an image on the display, regardless of whether the operating instruction is issued based on the recognized time-series motion.