Sensor and Tag to Determine a Relative Position

• US 20160109956A1
• Filed: 07/10/2013
• Published: 04/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: HAMBERGER, KARL FREDRIK, CAMPBELL, ROBERT
• Granted Patent: US 9,990,042 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/017 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 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A computing device can include a first enclosure and a display enclosure. A tag can be on the first enclosure. A sensor on the display enclosure can detect the tag location and generate sensor data. A controller can determine from the sensor data the relative position between the display enclosure and the first enclosure.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

a first enclosure;

a display enclosure;

a tag on the first enclosure;

a sensor on the display enclosure to detect a tag location on the first enclosure and generate sensor data; and

a controller to determine from the sensor data the relative position between the display enclosure and the first enclosure.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensor is an infrared sensor (IR).

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the effects IR light different than the material surrounding the tag.

4. Thee device of claim 1. comprising a fastener to remove the display enclosure from the first enclosure when the display enclosure is attached to the first enclosure.

5. The device of claim 1, a hinge between the first enclosure and the display enclosure to adjust the display enclosure angle relative to the first enclosure.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the sensor determines the location of a user'"'"'s hands and wherein the controller determines a gesture volume from the relative position between the display enclosure and the first enclosure.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the enclosure is a tablet computing device.

8. Thee device of claim 7, wherein the first enclosure is a docking station of the tablet computing device.

9. The device of claim 1, further comprising a code embedded in the tag that can be decoded by the controller.

10. A system comprising:

a tablet computing device;

a IR sensor in the tablet computing device generate IR sensor data from an object moving in a volume;

a connector to couple the tablet computing device to a docking station;

a controller in the tablet computing device to determine relative position between the docking station and the tablet computing device from a tag in the IR sensor data.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising a docking station having a keyboard.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the controller determines the gesture input volume.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising a gesture module to determine if the object is providing a gesture.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code that if executed by a controller of a computing device in an enclosure causes the controller to:

receive IR sensor data from an IR sensor;

determine a relative position of IR tags from the IR sensor data;

determine from the relative position of the IR tags an enclosure relative position between an enclosure and a first enclosure; and

determine the gesture input volume based on the relative position between the enclosure and the first enclosure.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14 further comprising code that if executed causes a computing device to:

execute an instruction related to a gesture detected in the gesture input volume by the IR sensor.