Interactive information processing system responsive to user manipulation of physical objects and displayed images
First Claim
1. An interactive information processing system responsive to human operator movement of physical objects comprising:
- a discriminator for discriminating physical objects and generating an electronic physical object image signal representative of physical attributes of a physical object; and
a menu driven physical object attribute definition system for accommodating operator storage of physical attributes of a plurality of physical objects utilizing the electronic physical object image signal from the discriminator.
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Abstract
An information processing system includes a desk with a planar display unit which also accommodates physical objects to be manipulated by the operator. The physical objects are representative of physical objects normally used in office environments when handling paper files. A camera is provided which continuously monitors the desk display surface and is coupled to an electronic computer which can be controlled by the operator by moving the physical objects and the operator hands to simulate paper processing tasks, such as mailing, faxing, filing, opening files, editing and the like. An operator driven menu is provided on the desk display surface for facilitating operator classification and storage of physical object shapes of those physical objects which are to be used.
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52 Claims
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1. An interactive information processing system responsive to human operator movement of physical objects comprising:
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a discriminator for discriminating physical objects and generating an electronic physical object image signal representative of physical attributes of a physical object; and a menu driven physical object attribute definition system for accommodating operator storage of physical attributes of a plurality of physical objects utilizing the electronic physical object image signal from the discriminator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An information processing apparatus comprising:
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a display unit; a camera unit for photographing an image object displayed on said display unit, and a physical object and the hands of an operator placed on said display unit; recognition means for recognizing the physical object from an image from said camera unit; attribute definition means for operator-interfaceable definition of a physical object based on physical attributes recognized by said recognition means and for defining an associated motion between the physical object recognized by said recognition means and said image object; attribute association processing means for executing an associated motion defined by said attribute definition means for said image object when a comparison value between a characteristic point coordinate of the physical object recognized by said recognition means and another characteristic point coordinate of another physical object, or between characteristic point coordinates in said image object is within a predetermined value; and means for automatically starting said attribute association processing means when said image object or said physical object is recognized to be a hold-state by gesture recognition means.
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18. An information processing apparatus provided with a display unit with a display surface on a horizontal arrangement in which data can be displayed in a document sheet format, and a camera unit for photographing the hands of an operator placed on the display surface of said display unit as well as the data displayed on said display surface of said display unit, comprising:
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definition file store means for storing various information processing motions each corresponding to each of various states of images representative of hand gestures; and process execution means for executing a particular information processing operation for said data upon recognition that a distance between an image of the hand and said data is judged to be within a predetermined value according to images from said camera unit, and that an association for carrying out said particular information process operation intended by the operator is identified between the image of the hand and said definition file store means. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An information processing apparatus provided with a flat panel display capable of displaying a document object including plural pages each being partially overlapped comprising:
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layout coordinate designation means for designating a start point coordinate and an end point coordinate for laying out said document object; page layout coordinate calculation means for obtaining respective coordinates for laying out respective pages of said document from said start and said end point coordinates; and layout display means for displaying respective pages of said document on respective coordinates obtained by said page layout coordinate calculation means. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of information processing using an electronic computing system and a plurality of operator manipulated physical objects corresponding to traditionally used objects for handling paper files in an office, comprising:
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selecting a plurality of physical objects; electronically imaging a first one of the physical objects, and generating a first electronic image signal reflective of the first physical object, utilizing an object attribute definition system menu to manually define the first physical object by object type and to store the first electronic image signal with its object type; electronically imaging a second one of the physical objects and generating a second electronic image signal reflective of the second physical object, utilizing the object attribute definition system menu to manually classify the second physical object type and to store the second electronic image signal with its object type; and subsequently processing information in a file storage unit of the electronic computing system by moving at least one of the physical objects with respect to an image display reflection of at least one other of the physical objects. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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29. An information processing system using a user manipulated object, comprising:
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a display device, file storage means for storing electronic information, discrimination means for discriminating an object indicated by a user, link definition means for generating link information for displaying electronic information corresponding to the discrimination result of the object on said display device, link storage means for storing said link information which designates the correspondence between said object and the corresponding electronic information stored in said file storage means, and file operation means for reading the electronic information corresponding to the discrimination result of the object by said discrimination means from said file storage means on the basis of said link information and for displaying it on said display device. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. An information processing system using a user manipulated object comprising:
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a display device, file storage means for storing electronic information, discrimination means for discriminating an object indicated by a user, link storage means for storing link information which designates the correspondence between said object and the electronic information stored in said file storage means, and link definition means for displaying the electronic information corresponding to the discrimination result of the object on said display device and for displaying a dialogue screen for user-interactive acceptance of a change in said stored link information on said display device.
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41. An information processing system using an object wherein said system comprises:
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a display device, file storage means for storing electronic information, discrimination means for discriminating an object indicated by a user, link storage means for storing link information which designates the correspondence between said object and the electronic information stored in said file storage means, attribute discrimination means for discriminating the attribute information added to said object, and file operation means for executing the operation and for user-interactive modification of said link information on the basis of said discriminated attribute information for the electronic information having the correspondence with said discriminated object. - View Dependent Claims (42)
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43. An interactive information processing system responsive to human operator movement of physical objects comprising:
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a discriminator which discriminates physical objects and generates an electronic physical object image signal representative of physical attributes of a physical object; and a menu driven physical object attribute definition system allowing operator storage of physical attributes of a plurality of physical objects utilizing the electronic physical object image signal from the discriminator. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45)
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46. An information processing apparatus comprising:
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a display unit; a camera unit for photographing an object image displayed on the display unit and the hands of an operator placed on or adjacent said display unit; a file storage unit containing image manipulation operations corresponding to respective operator hand gestures; and a file operator which executes a respective of said image manipulation operations on said object image in response to a respective operator hand gesture photographed by said camera unit. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48)
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49. A method of information processing, comprising:
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displaying an object image on a display unit; photographing said object image displayed on the display unit and the hands of an operator placed adjacent the object image; comparing an operator hand gesture with stored image manipulation operations; and executing a respective of said image manipulation operations on said object image in response to said operator hand gesture photographed by said camera unit. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51)
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52. A method of information processing using an electronic computing system and an operator manipulated physical object, comprising:
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selecting a physical object; electronically imaging the physical object; generating an electronic image signal reflective of the physical object; and utilizing an object attribute definition system menu to manually define the physical object by object type and to store the electronic image signal with its object type.
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Specification