ADJUSTMENT OF RETICLE DISPLAY BASED ON BIOMETRIC INFORMATION

• US 20170090561A1
• Filed: 10/29/2015
• Published: 03/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dow, Eli M., Fitzsimmons, Thomas D., Metruck, Emily M., Stocker, Charles J. IV
• Granted Patent: US 10,139,904 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0291 for reading, e.g. e-books constructional details of portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• 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 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• 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 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

An embodiment of a computer implemented method of displaying textual data includes receiving a request to display textual data and displaying textual data in a region within a display area. Displaying textual data includes sequentially presenting successive components of the textual data at a fixed position relative to the display area. The method also includes monitoring a point of gaze of a user based on biometric information, and based on detecting that the point of gaze is away from the region, automatically stopping the displaying by the processor at a time point corresponding to a current component, and determining a previous component of the textual data displayed at a previous time point. The method further includes, based on detecting that the point of gaze has returned to the region, commencing by the processor the displaying at the previous component and continuing to display successive components of the textual data.

Claims

1. A method of displaying textual data, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a request to display textual data;

displaying, by the processor, textual data in a region within a display area, wherein displaying textual data includes sequentially presenting successive components of the textual data at a fixed position relative to the display area;

monitoring a point of gaze of a user based on biometric information;

based on detecting that the point of gaze is away from the region, automatically stopping the displaying by the processor at a time point corresponding to a current component, and determining a previous component of the textual data displayed at a previous time point; and

based on detecting that the point of gaze has returned to the region, commencing by the processor the displaying at the previous component and continuing to display successive components of the textual data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying includes detecting whether the point of gaze is at the region within the display area.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying includes presenting the successive components at an display speed corresponding to an initial time window during which each successive component is presented in the region.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising monitoring at least one biometric characteristic of the user during the displaying, and controlling the display speed based on the at least one biometric characteristic.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the monitoring the at least one biometric characteristic includes detecting whether the user is experiencing at least one of stress and fatigue.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the controlling the display speed includes reducing the display speed by the processor in response to determining that the user is experiencing at least one of stress and fatigue.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring the point of gaze includes receiving biometric data from at least one sensor, the biometric data indicating at least one of eye movement and a position of one or more components of an eye.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the region of the display area is defined by a reticle on which successive textual data components are displayed.