DIGITAL ART SYSTEMS AND METHODS

• US 20150178315A1
• Filed: 03/05/2015
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC (WalMart Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Art.com Incorporated (WalMart Inc.)
• Inventors: Topakas, Nasos, Golding, Paul
• Application Number:
  US14/639,844
• Publication Number:
  US 20150178315A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/19 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/70 Multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from different biometric modalities

Abstract

Disclosed here are methods, devices, paradigms and structures for creating, displaying and facilitating the selection of art, design and décor. A digital art device (“device”) facilitates creating and displaying a digital art in accordance with the relationship to a viewer. The device can include sensors such as cameras, gyroscopes, audio processor, photometer, eye-tracking sensors, etc., to identify various types of human interaction, and the environment around the device. The device displays, adapts, or transforms the digital art according to the observed human interaction and/or surroundings of the device. Tools will allow developers to create new applications for displaying and creating digital art to be viewed on the device. Developers can access underlying décor discovery and visualization tools to process color, style and other décor-related attributes. The capabilities of the device and the décor discovery and visualization tools can be exposed as new functions in the applications created for the device.

Claims

1. A digital art device, comprising:

a processor;

an image retrieving module to retrieve a digital art from an image source, the digital art associated with a plurality of actions that transform the digital art, the plurality of actions triggered based on one or more events;

a plurality of sensors to generate sensor data, the sensor data including user interaction data generated based on an interaction of a user with the digital art device;

an event generation module to generate the one or more events based on the sensor data; and

an image processing module to process the digital art based on one or more of the actions triggered by the one or more events to generate a second digital art.

2. The digital art device of claim 1 further comprising:

a display module to display the second digital art.

3. The digital art device of claim 1, wherein the digital art includes a plurality of representations, and wherein the image processing module is configured to transform the digital art from a first representation to a second representation based on an action of the actions.

4. The digital art device of claim 1, wherein the sensors generate the user interaction data based on a gesture performed by the user.

5. The digital art device of claim 4, wherein the event generation module is configured to generate a gesture event of the one or more events based on the gesture, and wherein the image processing module is configured to trigger a first action of the actions corresponding to the gesture event, the first action configured to transform the digital art to the second digital art.

6. The digital art device of claim 5, wherein the event generation module is configured to generate the gesture event by receiving a selection of a portion of the digital art from the user, and wherein the image processing module is further configured to trigger the first action by performing a search at the image source to retrieve the second digital art that matches with the portion of the digital art.

7. The digital art device of claim 6, wherein the sensors generate the user interaction data based on the gesture performed by the user on a touch screen of the digital art device.

8. The digital art device of claim 4, wherein the sensors are configured to generate the user interaction data based on the gesture performed by the user in air and at one or more of the sensors of the digital art device.

9. The digital art device of claim 1, wherein the sensors are configured to generate the user interaction data by generating a first image that represents a face of the user.

10. The digital art device of claim 9, wherein the event generation module is configured to generate a facial recognition event of the one or more events based on the first image, the facial recognition event identifying the user based on the first image, and wherein the image processing module is configured to trigger a first action of the actions corresponding to the facial recognition event, the first action associated with the user.

11. The digital art device of claim 10, wherein the image processing module is configured to retrieve, as part of the first action, one or more of a plurality of digital arts that is determined to be of interest to the user.

12. The digital art device of claim 1, wherein the sensors are configured to generate the user interaction data by generating eye tracking data that includes coordinates of the digital art device where eyes of the user are focused at.

13. The digital art device of claim 12, wherein the event generation module is configured to generate an eye tracking event of the one or more events based on the eye tracking data, the eye tracking event identifying a portion of the digital art the eyes of the user is focused on based on the eye tracking data, and wherein the image processing module is configured to trigger a first action of the actions corresponding to the eye tracking event to transform the digital art to the second digital art.

14. The digital art device of claim 13, wherein the digital art includes a plurality of representations, and wherein the image processing module is configured to transform the digital art to the second digital art by:

obtaining a representation of the digital art that depicts a set of information associated with the portion of the digital art, and

displaying the representation of the digital art as the second digital art.

15. The digital art device of claim 14, wherein the set of information associated with the portion of the digital art is provided by a digital art provider who created the digital art.

16. The digital art device of claim 13, wherein the image processing module is configured to transform the digital art to the second digital art by zooming in to the portion of the digital art.

17. A method, comprising:

displaying a digital art on a digital art device installed in a setting, wherein the digital art is generated using one or more computing devices, includes a plurality of representations and is associated with a plurality of actions that are triggered on an occurrence of one or more events;

receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors of the digital art device, the sensor data including data regarding an interaction of a user with the digital art device;

determining an occurrence of a first event of the one or more events based on the sensor data; and

executing a first action of the actions corresponding to the first event, the first action transforming the digital art to a transformed digital art or altering a state of the digital art device as defined by the first action, the transformed digital art being a first representation of the digital art.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein receiving sensor data from the sensors includes:

generating, by the sensors, the sensor data indicating a plurality of co-ordinates of the digital art device the eyes of the user is focused on, and

generating the first event indicating the plurality of co-ordinates.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein executing the first action includes:

determining, based on the plurality of co-ordinates, a portion of the digital art the eyes of the user is focused on, and

processing the portion of the digital art to generate the transformed digital art.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein processing the portion of the digital art includes:

retrieving a representation of the digital art that depicts an enhanced level of detail of the portion of the digital art by zooming-in to the portion of the digital art, and

displaying the representation of the digital art as the transformed digital art.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein receiving sensor data from the sensors includes:

generating, by the sensors, the sensor data indicating a gesture from the user, and generating the first event indicating the gesture.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein executing the first action includes transforming the digital art to generate the transformed digital art based on the gesture.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein executing the first action includes:

determining, based on the gesture, a portion of the digital art selected by the user,

performing a search at one or more image sources to find a plurality of digital arts that match the portion of the digital, and

displaying the plurality of digital arts to the user.

24. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, comprising:

instructions for displaying a digital art on a digital art device, wherein the digital art is associated with a plurality of events and a plurality of actions that are triggered on an occurrence of the plurality of events, wherein each of the actions modify the digital art or a state of the digital art device;

instructions for receiving, from a plurality of sensors associated with the digital art device, sensor data, the sensor data including an interaction of a user with the digital art device;

instructions for generating a first event of the events based on the sensor data; and

instructions for executing a first action of the actions corresponding to the first event.

25. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the instructions for receiving sensor data from the sensors includes:

instructions for receiving data indicating a plurality of co-ordinates of the digital art device the eyes of the user is focused on as the sensor data, and

instructions for generating the first event indicating the plurality of co-ordinates.

26. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, wherein the instructions for executing the first action includes:

instructions for determining, based on the plurality of co-ordinates, a portion of the digital art the eyes of the user is focused on, and

instructions for processing the portion of the digital art to generate the second digital art.

27. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 26, wherein the instructions for processing the portion of the digital art includes instructions for displaying an enhanced level of detail of the portion of the digital art by zooming-in into the portion of the digital art.

28. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the instructions for receiving the sensor data indicating the interaction of the user includes instructions for generating a first image that represents a face of the user.

29. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 28, wherein the instructions for generating the first event includes:

instructions for generating a facial recognition event based on the first image, the facial recognition event identifying the user based on the first image, and

instructions for triggering the first action corresponding to the facial recognition event, the first action being specific to the user.

30. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 29, wherein the image processing module is configured to retrieve, as part of the first action, one or more of a plurality of digital arts that is determined to be of interest to the user.