Computerized interactor systems and methods for providing same
First Claim
1. A system for controlling a computerized system, the system comprising:
- means for providing a detection space;
means for placing a physical and identifiable member having a semantic meaning independent of the member within the detection space, the semantic meaning being dependent upon an identity of a user who placed the member within the detection space;
means for determining the semantic meaning of the member within a given semantic context; and
means for controlling a computerized system in response to the semantic meaning of the identifiable number.
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Abstract
A computerized interactor system uses physical, three-dimensional objects as metaphors for input of user intent to a computer system. When one or more interactors are engaged with a detection field, the detection field reads an identifier associated with the object and communicates the identifier to a computer system. The computer system determines the meaning of the interactor based upon its identifier and upon a semantic context in which the computer system is operating. The interactors can be used to control other systems, such as audio systems, or it can be used as intuitive inputs into a computer system for such purposes as marking events in a temporal flow. The interactors, as a minimum, communicate their identity, but may also be more sophisticated in that they can communicate additional processed or unprocessed data, i.e. they can include their own data processors. The detection field can be one-dimensional or multi-dimensional, and typically has different semantic meanings associated with different parts of the detection field.
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17 Claims
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1. A system for controlling a computerized system, the system comprising:
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means for providing a detection space; means for placing a physical and identifiable member having a semantic meaning independent of the member within the detection space, the semantic meaning being dependent upon an identity of a user who placed the member within the detection space; means for determining the semantic meaning of the member within a given semantic context; and means for controlling a computerized system in response to the semantic meaning of the identifiable number. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for marking events occurring in a recorded media, the system comprising:
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a display component configured to display the recorded media and associate event timing information with events occurring in the recorded media; multiple interactors, wherein each of the multiple interactors includes an identifier; a detection field configured to detect a respective one of the multiple interactors and the associated identifier during an event time, wherein the event time corresponds to at least a portion of the event timing information; and a processor operable to mark at least a portion of the recorded media with events corresponding to the event time based on the identifier. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for marking events occurring in a recorded media, the system comprising:
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means for displaying a recording; means for ascertaining an event timing information concerning events occurring in the recording; means for receiving an event marker in an event marker time, wherein the event marker includes an event marker identifier; and means for marking an event based upon the event timing information, the event marker time, and the event marker identifier. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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