WEARABLE GESTURE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SMART HOME SYSTEM

• US 20170123502A1
• Filed: 10/27/2016
• Published: 05/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Wang, Yi, Gao, Yekun, Zhao, Xiaoguang, Nie, Rongbao
• Application Number:
  US15/336,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20170123502A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• 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 2203/0384 Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
• 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: G06V 40/1365 Matching; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/32 Remote control based on movements, attitude of remote control device
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

The present invention relates to a gesture control method for a smart home system, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: pre-defining each gesture; associating each predefined gesture with a control command for a smart home system; making a gesture and wirelessly transmitting a control command associated with the gesture in accordance with a wireless protocol; receiving the control command and performing a control operation associated with the gesture to the smart home system.

Claims

1. A gesture control method for a smart home system, characterized in that it comprises the steps of:

pre-defining each gesture;

associating each predefined gesture with a control command for a smart home system;

making a gesture and wirelessly transmitting a control command associated with the gesture in accordance with a wireless protocol;

receiving the control command and performing a control operation associated with the gesture to the smart home system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the making the gesture comprises:

turning the wrist to the left, turning the wrist to the right, turn the wrist full circle to the left, turn the full circle to the right and cross the wrist.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless protocol may be a 802.15.4 protocol and a 345 Mhz Honeywell wireless protocol.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the 802.15.4 protocol comprises:

a BLE protocol and a Zigbee protocol.

5. A wearable gesture control device for a smart home system, comprising:

an axis acceleration sensor for tracing the gesture and translating it into a control command associated with the gesture; and

a wireless transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the control command associated with the gesture in accordance with the wireless protocol.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the axis acceleration sensor is a 6-axis acceleration sensor.

7. The device of claim 5, further comprising a fingerprint identification module to identify the identity of a user of the wearable gesture control device.

8. The device of claim 5, further comprising a timing module for use as an electronic clock.

9. The device of claim 5, further comprising a health module to monitor a health status of the user of the wearable gesture control device.

10. The device of claim 5, further comprising a GPS positioning module to locate the geographic location of the user of the wearable gesture control device.

11. The device of claim 5, wherein the wireless protocol may be a 802.15.4 protocol and a 345 Mhz Honeywell wireless protocol.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the 802.15.4 protocol comprises:

a BLE protocol and a Zigbee protocol.