Method for Selecting an Information Source for Display on Smart Glasses

• US 20160041613A1
• Filed: 10/16/2015
• Published: 02/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: KLANNER, Felix, SPIESSL, Wolfgang, ENDERS, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 9,823,741 B2
• 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 2027/0141 characterised by the informative content of the display
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0181 Adaptation to the pilot/driver
• 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 27/0093 with means for monitoring data relating to the user, e.g. head-tracking, eye-tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0179 Display position adjusting means not related to the information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

A method for selecting an information source from a plurality of information sources for display on a display of smart glasses is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes determining an orientation of the smart glasses with respect to a head of a wearer of the smart glasses, and selecting an information source from the plurality of information sources based at least in part on the determined orientation of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer of the smart glasses.

Claims

1. A method for selecting an information source from a plurality of information sources for display on a display of smart glasses, comprising:

determining an orientation of the smart glasses with respect to a head of a wearer of the smart glasses;

selecting an information source from the plurality of information sources based at least in part on the determined orientation of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer of the smart glasses.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the smart glasses comprise a section which is configured to contact at least one of an ear and the head of the wearer in an area of the ear of the wearer, and wherein said section of the smart glasses comprises sensors which are configured to detect a relative positioning of the section with respect to the ear of the wearer,

wherein determining the orientation of the smart glasses comprises detecting the relative positioning of the section of the smart glasses with respect to the ear of the wearer.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the sensors are configured to detect at which position the section and the ear of the wearer are in contact,

wherein the detecting of the relative positioning of the section of the smart glasses with respect to the ear of the wearer comprises detecting at which position the section and the ear of the wearer are in contact.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein selecting an information source comprises:

determining an orientation area from a plurality of orientation areas in which the determined orientation of the smart glasses is located,

selecting an information source from the plurality of information sources using a predetermined allocation between each of the plurality of orientation areas and each the plurality of information sources, respectively;

wherein each of the plurality of orientation areas describes possible orientations of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer, said orientations being successively assumed during a movement of the smart glasses.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein selecting an information source comprises:

determining an orientation area from a plurality of orientation areas in which the determined orientation of the smart glasses is located,

selecting an information source from the plurality of information sources using a predetermined allocation between each of the plurality of orientation areas and each the plurality of information sources, respectively;

wherein each of the plurality of orientation areas describes possible orientations of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer, said orientations being successively assumed during a movement of the smart glasses.

6. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein selecting an information source comprises:

determining an orientation area from a plurality of orientation areas in which the determined orientation of the smart glasses is located,

selecting an information source from the plurality of information sources using a predetermined allocation between each of the plurality of orientation areas and each the plurality of information sources, respectively;

wherein each of the plurality of orientation areas describes possible orientations of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer, said orientations being successively assumed during a movement of the smart glasses.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display of the smart glasses is arranged essentially in a peripheral field of view of the wearer for the wearer of the smart glasses in a first orientation area of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the display of the smart glasses is arranged at least with a significant part in a central field of view of the wearer for the wearer of the smart glasses in a second orientation area of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the plurality of information sources comprises a first information source and a second information source, wherein the first information source provides first information which is not intended for the contact-analogous representation, and wherein the second information source provides second information which is intended for the contact-analogous representation, wherein the method further comprises:

determining whether the smart glasses are arranged in the first or the second orientation area;

if the smart glasses are arranged in the first orientation area, the method comprises representing the first information in a non-contact-analogous manner; and

if the smart glasses are arranged in the second orientation area, the method comprises representing the second information in a contact-analogous manner.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the second information source is a driver assistance system that outputs at least one of:

(i) a symbol corresponding to another road user with whom a collision is imminent, along with a position of the symbol in the display of the smart glasses;

(ii) a marking of a lane which is to be traveled on due to a route guidance, along with a corresponding position in the display, and (iii) a point of interest, along with a corresponding position in the display.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of information sources comprises an information source which provides information intended for contact-analogous representation, wherein the method further comprises:

determining a position in the display of the smart glasses at which the contact-analogous information is to be displayed using a predetermined allocation between orientations of the smart glasses and a respective reference position in the display of the smart glasses.

12. The method as claimed in one of claim 2, further comprising:

executing a configuration sequence for a contact-analogous representation of information based on the orientation of the smart glasses, comprising;

for a number of positions of an information item which is to be represented contact-analogously, in the display of the smart glasses;

displaying an information item which is to be represented contact-analogously, at a respective position in the display of the smart glasses;

detecting a position of contact of the at least one of the ear and the head of the wearer with the section of the smart glasses; and

recording the position of the contact of the at least one of the ear and the head of the wearer with the section of the smart glasses.

13. A device, comprising smart glasses, means for determining the orientation of the smart glasses with respect to the head of a wearer of the smart glasses, and electronic processing means, the device being configured to:

determine an orientation of the smart glasses with respect to a head of a wearer of the smart glasses, and

select an information source from the plurality of information sources based at least in part on the determined orientation of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer of the smart glasses.

14. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor readable medium having processor executable code embodied therein to select an information source from a plurality of information sources for display on a display of smart glasses, the non-transitory processor readable medium having:

processor executable program code to determine an orientation of the smart glasses with respect to a head of a wearer of the smart glasses, and

processor executable program code to select an information source from the plurality of information sources based at least in part on the determined orientation of the smart glasses with respect to the head of the wearer of the smart glasses.