Electronic device control system having image displaying function and image capturing function

• US 8,941,768 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Shimada, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): CUTLER, ALBERT H
• Application Number:
  US13/392,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20120154661A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,615 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.1
• US Class Current: 348/333.1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/14 Details
• 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: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6811 based on the image signal

Abstract

According to an aspect, an electronic device includes an image display unit, an image taking unit, and a control unit. The image display unit displays a first image. The image taking unit takes a second image of a target object. The control unit detects a motion of the target object in the second image taken by the image taking unit, and changes the first image displayed by the image display unit in accordance with the detected motion of the target object.

Claims

1. An electronic device control system, comprising:

a housing having a first face and a second face, the second face different from the first face;

an image display unit arranged on the first face, the image display unit configured to emit light in a first direction to project an image;

an image taking unit arranged on the second face, the image taking unit configured to take an image of a user in a second direction transverse to the first direction; and

a control unit configured to

detect a motion of the user from the image taken by the image taking unit,

estimate a momentum of the user based on weight and the motion of the user, and

change an image projected by the image display unit to another image, based on the estimated momentum,

wherein

the housing further has a third face different from the first face and the second face, the third face having thereon a display panel.

2. The electronic device control system according to claim 1, wherein

the third face of the housing has a first side and a second side, the second side longer than the first side,

the first face is connected to the third face along the first side,

the second face is connected to the third face along the second side, and

the first face is connected to the second face.