EXTERNAL USER INTERFACE FOR HEAD WORN COMPUTING

• US 20150205351A1
• Filed: 03/02/2015
• Published: 07/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Osterhout Design Group
• Original Assignee: Osterhout Design Group
• Inventors: Osterhout, Ralph F., Haddick, John D.
• Application Number:
  US14/635,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20150205351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0176 characterised by mechanical features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.

Claims

1. A finger-mounted computer controller for a head-mounted computer, comprising:

a. A housing adapted to mounted on a person'"'"'s finger;

b. A motion sensor mounted in the housing and adapted to sense positional movements of the housing and communicate control signals based on the positional movements to the head-worn computer; and

c. A programmable actuator mounted on the outside of the housing adapted to communicate, when actuated, a signal to the head-worn computer causing the head-worn computer to launch a predestinated software application.

2. The controller of claim 1, wherein the head-worn computer monitors a condition of the head-worn computer and maintains, following receipt of the actuator signal, a substantially clear see-through display when the condition indicates that the user requires an unobstructed view of the surrounding environment.

3. The controller of claim 2, wherein the condition involves the head-worn computer moving forward at a rate above a threshold.

4. The controller of claim 1, wherein the head-worn computer clears its see-through display of content unrelated to the predestinated software application upon receipt of the actuator signal.

5. A finger-mounted computer controller for a head-mounted computer, comprising:

a. A housing adapted to mounted on a person'"'"'s finger;

b. A motion sensor mounted in the housing and adapted to sense positional movements of the housing and communicate control signals based on the positional movements to the head-worn computer; and

c. An actuator mounted on the outside of the housing adapted to communicate, when actuated and held in an actuated position, a signal to the head-worn computer causing the head-worn computer to display content in a see-through display for a duration corresponding to a time the actuator is held in the actuated position.

6. The finger-mouse of claim 6, wherein the actuator is further adapted to automatically hold the actuated position by a user performing a predetermined hold action.

7. The finger-mouse of claim 7, wherein the predetermined hold action is a double-click action.

8. The finger-mouse of claim 7, wherein the predetermined hold action is to actuate the actuator for longer than a predetermined period.