GESTURE BASED CONTROL APPLICATION FOR DATA SHARING

• US 20160154471A1
• Filed: 02/05/2016
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harman Professional, Inc. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Amx LLC (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Smith, George Carl, Skaf, Rashid, Smith, Darin William
• Granted Patent: US 10,496,178 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1061 using node-based peer discovery mechanisms static access to replicated servers H04L67/1006; service discovery H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70

Abstract

Receiving user gesture input commands and interpreting the commands to conduct presentation level control system processing and related presentation communications includes, in one example, detecting an input gesture command via a controller and processing the input gesture command via a processor. The example may also include retrieving at least one data file object responsive to the processed input gesture command, and transmitting the at least one media object to a remote device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying a registration code on a display within a room containing a control panel device;

establishing a plurality of registered devices with a master controller using the displayed registration code;

processing an input gesture command via the control panel device to determine that at least one data file object is to be shared with the plurality of registered devices;

transmitting a message to the master controller that indicates the at least one data file object that is to be shared with the plurality of registered devices and triggering one or more of the plurality of registered devices to send a request from an application on the one or more of the plurality of registered devices to a server to download the at least one data file object; and

transmitting the at least one data file object from the server to the one or more of the registered devices.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising detecting the input gesture command via the control panel device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying an input gesture associated with the input gesture command via a movement performed on an electronic device detected via an accelerometer.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the at least one data file object from memory;

forwarding the at least one data file to a network server;

transmitting an access link to a plurality of user devices linked to the network server; and

identifying the input gesture as a flick operation which controls an audio/video (A/V) switch to activate and generate a content preview on an AV presentation display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one data file object is a media object comprising at least one of a video file and a photo image file.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of user devices are registered with an application operating with the control panel device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating an object identifier associated with the at least one data file object, a uniform resource identifier (URI) that identifies an online data file storage location of the at least one data file object, and a direction of the gesture indicating an object included on a user interface associated with the control panel device responsive to gesture input command.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a display configured to display a registration code;

a control panel co-located with the display, the control panel configured to establish a plurality of registered devices with a master controller using the displayed registration code;

a processor configured to;

process an input gesture command to determine that at least one data file object is to be shared with the plurality of registered devices; and

transmit a message to the master controller that indicates the at least one data file object that is to be shared with the plurality of registered devices and trigger one or more of the plurality of registered devices to send a request from an application on the one or more of the plurality of registered devices;

a server configured to;

receive the request;

download the at least one data file object; and

transmit the at least one data file object to the one or more of the respective registered devices.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to detect the input gesture command via the control panel device.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to identify an input gesture associated with the input gesture command via a movement performed on an electronic device detected via an accelerometer.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to retrieve the at least one data file object from memory and wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit the at least one data file to a network server and an access link to a plurality of user devices linked to the network server, and identify the input gesture as a flick operation which controls an audio/video (A/V) switch to activate and generate a content preview on an AV presentation display.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one data file object is a media object comprising at least one of a video file and a photo image file.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the plurality of user devices are registered with an application operating with the control panel device.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to create an object identifier associated with the at least one data file object, a uniform resource identifier (URI) that identifies an online data file storage location of the at least one data file object, and a direction of the gesture indicating an object included on a user interface associated with the controller responsive to gesture input command.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform:

displaying a registration code on a display within a room containing a control panel device;

establishing a plurality of registered devices with a master controller using the displayed registration code;

processing an input gesture command via the control panel device to determine that at least one data file object is to be shared with the plurality of registered devices;

transmitting a message to the master controller that indicates the at least one data file object that is to be shared with the plurality of registered devices and triggering one or more of the plurality of registered devices to send a request from an application on the one or more of the plurality of registered devices to a server to download the at least one data file object; and

transmitting the at least one data file object from the server to the one or more of the registered devices.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to perform detecting the input gesture command via the control panel device.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to perform identifying an input gesture associated with the input gesture command via a movement performed on an electronic device detected via an accelerometer.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to perform:

retrieving the at least one data file object from memory and;

forwarding the at least one data file to a network server;

transmitting an access link to a plurality of user devices linked to the network server; and

identifying the input gesture as a flick operation which controls an audio/video (A/V) switch to activate and generate a content preview on an AV presentation display.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the at least one data file object is a media object comprising at least one of a video file and a photo image file.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the plurality of user devices are registered with an application operating with the control panel device and wherein the processor is further configured to create an object identifier associated with the at least one data file object, a uniform resource identifier (URI) that identifies an online data file storage location of the at least one data file object, and a direction of the gesture indicating an object included on a user interface associated with the controller responsive to gesture input command.