WEARABLE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR WEARABLE DEVICE

• US 20150177270A1
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: TAKANO, Yuichi, NAKAGAWA, Ryo
• Application Number:
  US14/579,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20150177270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/08 with conversion into electric or magnetic values
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/025 for measuring physiological data
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• 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 wearable device wearable on a human body includes a counting unit configured to count, when tap operation is performed, the number of times of taps, which is the number of times of the tap operation, a number-of-times determining unit configured to determine whether the number of times of taps counted by the counting unit reaches a predetermined number of times equal to or greater than three times and equal to or less than ten times, and an executing unit configured to execute predetermined processing when the number-of-times determining unit determines that the number of times of taps reaches the predetermined number of times.

Claims

1. A wearable device wearable on a human body, the wearable device comprising:

a counting unit configured to count, when tap operation is performed, a number of times of taps, which is a number of times of the tap operation;

a number-of-times determining unit configured to determine whether the number of times of taps counted by the counting unit reaches a predetermined number of times equal to or greater than three times and equal to or less than ten times; and

an executing unit configured to execute predetermined processing when the number-of-times determining unit determines that the number of times of taps reaches the predetermined number of times.

2. The wearable device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit; and

a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the number of times of taps counted by the counting unit.

3. The wearable device according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to hide the number of times of taps when a number-of-times display time set in advance elapses from the tap operation of a last time.

4. The wearable device according to claim 2, wherein, when the number-of-times determining unit determines that the number of times of taps reaches the predetermined number of times, the display control unit maintains the number of times of taps displayed on the display unit for a predetermined time.

5. The wearable device according to claim 1, further comprising a number-of-times initializing unit configured to initialize, when a number-of-times retention time set in advance elapses from the tap operation of a last time, the number of times of taps counted by the counting unit.

6. The wearable device according to claim 1, further comprising a regulating unit configured to regulate, when the number-of-times determining unit determines that the number of times of taps reaches the predetermined number of times, the counting by the counting means for a regulation time set in advance.

7. The wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined processing is processing for reducing power consumption of the wearable device.

8. The wearable device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an acceleration detecting unit configured to detect an acceleration value; and

an operation determining unit configured to determine on the basis of a change in the detected acceleration value whether the tap operation is performed,

wherein

the counting unit counts the number of times of taps when the operation determining unit determines that the tap operation is performed.

9. A control method for a wearable device wearable on a human body, the control method comprising:

counting, when tap operation is performed, a number of times of the tap operation; and

executing predetermined processing when the number of times of the tap operation reaches a predetermined number of times equal to or greater than three times and equal to or less than ten times.