EXTERNAL USER INTERFACE FOR HEAD WORN COMPUTING

• US 20160025979A1
• Filed: 09/22/2014
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC (Magic Leap, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Osterhout Design Group
• Inventors: Border, John N., Osterhout, Ralph F.
• Application Number:
  US14/493,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20160025979A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• 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: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1639 the display being based on projection
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00

Abstract

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

Claims

1. A method of detecting user interaction with a virtual user interface, comprising:

a. Presenting to a user of a head-worn computer a virtual user interface that appears, from the user'"'"'s perspective, to be positioned on a surface proximate the user;

b. Causing the user to position a finger of the user on the surface at a position that intersects, from the user'"'"'s perspective, the user interface, forming an interaction pose;

c. Causing a detection system of the head-worn computer to capture the interaction pose, forming an interaction position; and

d. Storing the interaction position as a reference to determine future user interactions with the virtual user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual user interface is presented by projecting an image on to the surface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the virtual user interface is presented as augmented reality content in a see-through display of the head-worn computer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the detection system is a stereo camera system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the detection system is a structured light system that produces a structured pattern of light and the detection is based on an interference pattern resulting in the pattern of light.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the detection system is a time of flight measurement system.

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