Wearable motion sensing computing interface

• US 9,110,505 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2011
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Innovative Development Group LLC
• Original Assignee: Innovative Devices, LLC
• Inventors: Mastandrea, Nicholas J. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHENG, TOM V
• Application Number:
  US13/640,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,583 Days
• Field of Search: 345157-167, 345/173, 463/37, 463/38
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• 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 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

An apparatus comprises a sensor configured to detect movement and generate movement data related to at least part of a detected movement; a messaging unit configured to create a message that is configured to include movement information based at least in part upon the movement data; a transmitter in data communication with the messaging unit and configured to transmit the message; and a housing configured to at least partially enclose at least one of the sensor, the messaging unit, and the transmitter, and including a finger grip configured to secure the housing to a human finger. Methods of using the apparatus are also provided.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving data associated with at least a portion of a movement of a wearable motion sensing device;

filtering the data to produce a rate of change of the movement of the wearable motion sensing device;

integrating the rate of change of the movement to produce a measured movement of the wearable motion sensing device;

summing the measured movement and an accumulated movement to produce at least one of an updated position of the wearable motion sensing device and an updated orientation of the wearable motion sensing device; and

updating a feature of a user interface of a computing device based at least in part upon one of the updated position and the updated orientation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is at least one-axis acceleration data from an accelerometer of the wearable motion sensing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is at least one-axis angular rate data from a gyroscope of the wearable motion sensing device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

scaling the data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the scaling is performed by a scaling function selected from the group consisting of a linear scaling function, an exponential scaling function, a scaling function that scales according to the formula A,′

=((4/32768)*A_i)*9.81 where A, is an acceleration data for a single axis selected from the x, y, and z axes, and a scaling function that scales according to the formula G_i′

=((500 dps/32786)*(pi/180))*G, where G, is an angular rate data for a single axis selected from the x, y, and z axes.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the feature of the user interface of the computing device is a cursor position.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the cursor position is updated based at least in part upon a scaled measured movement.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein a change of the cursor position in a first axis is produced by a movement in a second axis of the wearable motion sensing device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an indication of a sensor activation of the wearable motion sensing device, and wherein the feature is updated at least in part upon receiving the indication of the sensor activation.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the feature is selected from the group consisting of a left button click, a right button click, an application defined button click, a user defined button click, a scrolling function, a zoom in function, a zoom out function, an opening of an application, a closing of an application, a checking of an email, an editing of a character, a typing of a character, a copying of a character, a deleting of a character, a pasting of a character, a selecting of a user-selectable option, a sending of an item to a recycle bin, a modifying of a volume level, a muting of a volume, a selecting of a multimedia item, a playing of a multimedia item, a pausing of a multimedia item playback, a changing of a speed of playback of a multimedia item, a rewinding of a playback of a multimedia item, a fast forwarding of a playback of a multimedia item, a skipping of a portion of playback of a multimedia item, a rotation of an image, a resizing of an image, a scaling of an image, a trimming of an image, an image processing of an image, and a movie editing function.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering is performed by a filter selected from the group consisting of smoothing filter, a high pass filter, a Kalman filter or an iterative algorithm.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering further comprises:

selecting a plurality of data points from the data;

calculating a mean of the selected plurality of data points;

calculating a standard deviation of the selected plurality of data points;

comparing the standard deviation with a minimum standard deviation; and

subtracting the mean from a data point, when the standard deviation is less than the minimum standard deviation, to remove a DC offset from the data point and to produce the rate of change of the movement of the wearable motion sensing device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the minimum standard deviation is 0.03 for data associated with an axis of acceleration, and wherein the minimum standard deviation is 0.003 for data associated with an axis of angular rate.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the operation of selecting a plurality of data points is performed by applying a window function to the data to select about 50 data points.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining an orientation of the wearable motion sensing device using a measurement of acceleration due to gravity on the wearable motion sensing device.