INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH PROXIMITY DETECTION PERFORMANCE AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD USING THE SAME

• US 20170131786A1
• Filed: 01/25/2017
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Koshiyama, Atsushi, Oba, Haruo
• Granted Patent: US 9,870,065 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041661 using detection at multiple resolutions, e.g. coarse and fine scanning; using detection within a limited area, e.g. object tracking window
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An information display apparatus with proximity detection performance contains a display device that displays image information, a sensor constituted of plural detection electrodes, and an adjusting device of detection resolution that adjusts the detection resolution to be detected based on a distance between the sensor and an object that is contacted to any one of the detection electrodes.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. Information processing apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

detect proximity of an approaching individual; and

display information to the individual, at a position corresponding to the individual'"'"'s eye level, the information displayed being based on the detected proximity of the individual.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the circuitry includes a sensor disposed at a predetermined position to sense the proximity of the approaching individual.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, further comprising a display device for displaying the information as a function of the detected proximity of the individual.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the display device is disposed in the vicinity of eye level of the individual.

25. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein first information is displayed when the individual enters a first detection space from the sensor, and a second information is displayed when the individual enters a second detection space from the sensor;

and wherein the first detection space is further from the sensor than the second detection space.

26. An information processing method, comprising:

detecting proximity of an approaching individual; and

displaying information to the individual at a position corresponding to the individual'"'"'s eye level, the information being based on the detected proximity of the individual.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein first information is displayed when the individual enters a first detection space, and a second information is displayed when the individual enters a second detection space;

and wherein the first detection space is further from a proximity sensor than the second detection space.

28. A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing instructions that, when read, causes a processor to implement an information processing method comprising:

detecting proximity of an approaching individual; and

displaying information to the individual at a position corresponding to the individual'"'"'s eye level, the information being based on the detected proximity of the individual.

29. The medium of claim 28, wherein first information is displayed when the individual enters a first detection space, and a second information is displayed when the individual enters a second detection space;

and wherein the first detection space is further from a proximity sensor than the second detection space.