PERFORMANCE OF AN OPERATION BASED AT LEAST IN PART ON TILT OF A WRIST WORN APPARATUS

• US 20170010678A1
• Filed: 02/09/2015
• Published: 01/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: TULI, Apaar
• Granted Patent: US 10,466,796 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection
• 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 3/0346 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites

Abstract

A method comprising determining occurrence of a software event on a wrist worn apparatus, determining a notification based, at least in part, on the software event such that the notification comprises information that signifies the software event, causing rendering of the notification, determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from a user-facing direction to a non-user-facing direction, determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to another user-facing direction within a notification tilt actuation threshold duration from determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction, and causing performance of at least one operation associated with the software event is disclosed.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A method comprising:

determining occurrence of a software event on a wrist worn apparatus;

determining a notification based, at least in part, on the software event such that the notification comprises information that signifies the software event;

causing rendering of the notification;

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from a user-facing direction to a non-user-facing direction;

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to another user-facing direction within a notification tilt actuation threshold duration from determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction; and

causing performance of at least one operation associated with the software event based, at least in part, on the determination that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to the another user-facing direction within the notification tilt actuation threshold duration from determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the operation associated with the software event comprises:

determining supplemental information associated with the software event; and

causing rendering of, at least part of, the supplemental information.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the notification fails to comprise a part of the supplemental information.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the notification excludes the supplemental information.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising causing display of an animation indicative of a transition from display of the notification to display of the supplemental information.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising determining that the wrist worn apparatus is tilting from the non-user-facing direction towards the another user-facing direction, wherein causing display of the animation is based, at least in part, on the determination that the wrist worn apparatus is tilting from the non-user-facing direction towards the another user-facing direction.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

determining that the notification tilt actuation threshold duration has elapsed since the determination that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction; and

terminating display of the animation based, at least in part, on the determination that the notification tilt actuation threshold duration has elapsed since determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction.

23. The method of claim 16, wherein determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction comprises:

determining that the wrist worn apparatus is oriented in a user-facing direction; and

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has become oriented in a direction that is beyond a user-facing directional threshold.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to the another user-facing direction comprises determining that the wrist worn apparatus has become oriented in a direction that is within a user-facing directional threshold.

25. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

determining that the wrist worn apparatus is oriented in another non-user-facing direction; and

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has become oriented in the user-facing direction, wherein the determination that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction is predicated by the determination that the wrist worn apparatus is oriented in the other non-user-facing direction.

26. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining another occurrence of the software event on the wrist worn apparatus;

determining another notification based, at least in part, on the software event such that the notification comprises information that signifies the software event;

causing rendering of the notification;

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been reoriented from a user-facing direction to a notification termination orientation; and

terminating rendering of the other notification based, at least in part, on the determination that the wrist worn apparatus has been reoriented from the user-facing direction to the notification termination orientation.

27. The method of claim 16 wherein the another user-facing direction is the user-facing direction.

28. A wrist worn apparatus comprising

a display;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

determining occurrence of a notification;

causing rendering of the notification, the notification comprises information presented on the display;

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from a user-facing direction to a non-user-facing direction with respect to the display;

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to another user-facing direction within a notification tilt actuation threshold duration from determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction; and

causing performance of at least one operation associated with the notification based, at least in part, on the determination that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to the another user-facing direction within the notification tilt actuation threshold duration from determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction.

29. The wrist worn apparatus of claim 28 wherein the operation associated with the notification comprises:

determining supplemental information associated with the notification; and

causing rendering at least part of the supplemental information.

30. The wrist worn apparatus of claim 29 further comprising causing display of a transition from the notification to the supplemental information.

31. The wrist worn apparatus of claim 30 further comprising

determining that the notification tilt actuation threshold duration has elapsed since the determination that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction;

and

terminating display of the transition based, at least in part, on the determination that the notification tilt actuation threshold duration has elapsed since determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction.

32. The wrist worn apparatus of claim 28 wherein determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction comprises:

determining that the wrist worn apparatus is oriented in a user-facing direction; and

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has become oriented in a direction that is beyond a user-facing directional threshold.

33. The wrist worn apparatus of claim 28 wherein determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to the another user-facing direction comprises determining that the wrist worn apparatus has become oriented in a direction that is within a user-facing directional threshold.

34. The wrist worn apparatus of claim 28 wherein the another user-facing direction is the user-facing direction.

35. A non-transitory computer readable medium having executable instructions stored therein that, when executed by at least one processor, cause an apparatus to perform at least the following:

determining occurrence of a notification;

causing rendering of the notification, the notification comprises information presented on a display;

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from a user-facing direction to a non-user-facing direction with respect to the display;

determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to another user-facing direction within a notification tilt actuation threshold duration from determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction; and

causing performance of at least one operation associated with the notification based, at least in part, on the determination that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the non-user-facing direction to the another user-facing direction within the notification tilt actuation threshold duration from determining that the wrist worn apparatus has been tilted from the user-facing direction to the non-user-facing direction.