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• US 9,213,410 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2010
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Campbell, Robert, Suggs, Bradley, McCarthy, John P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chuang, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US13/387,103
• Publication Number:
  US 20120137259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,090 Days
• Field of Search: 715/863, 715/711, 707/703, 358/403
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042

Abstract

A method for accessing a file on a computing machine including configuring a sensor to detect an object and a user interacting with the object, associating the object with at least one file on the computing machine, and configuring a display device to render an associated file being accessed in response to the user interacting with the object.

Claims

1. A method for operating a computing device, the method comprising:

detecting a physical object within a viewing area of a three-dimensional depth sensor of the computing device;

determining whether the physical object is within a predefined proximity of the computing device;

on a display of the computing device, prompting a user to re-position the physical object when the physical object is determined to be outside the predefined proximity;

determining that the physical object, when re-positioned within the predefined proximity, is not associated with a file stored in a memory of the computing device;

in response to determining that the physical object is not associated with a file stored in the memory, enabling the user to associate the physical object with at least one file stored in the memory by performing a hand gesture with respect to the physical object and a representation of the at least one file presented on the display of the computing device;

detecting the hand gesture using the sensor by detecting the user (i) closing a hand over a portion of the display on which the representation of the at least one file is presented, (ii) moving the closed hand away from the display and to the physical object, and (iii) opening the hand over the physical object; and

in response to detecting the user opening the hand over the physical object, associating the physical object with the at least one file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the physical object includes causing the sensor to detect the physical object in response to receiving a request to scan the viewing area of the sensor.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the physical object includes determining information corresponding to the detected physical object, and wherein determining that the physical object is not associated with a file stored in a memory includes (i) comparing the information corresponding to the detected physical object with predefined information of a plurality of objects stored in the memory, and (ii) determining that the information corresponding to the detected physical object does not match predefined information for any of the plurality of objects.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein associating the physical object with the at least one file includes storing the information corresponding to the detected physical object with the predefined information of the plurality of objects in the memory.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the hand gesture performed by the user includes determining that the hand gesture corresponds to a command to associate the physical object with the at least one file.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the physical object includes determining one or more dimensions of the physical object using the sensor.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting the physical object includes detecting a bar code provided on the physical object using the sensor.

8. A computing device, comprising:

a three-dimensional depth sensor;

a display;

a memory storing instructions and a plurality of files; and

a processor, coupled to the at least one sensor, the display, and the memory, the processor to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising;

detecting a physical object within a viewing area of the sensor;

determining whether the physical object is within a predefined proximity of the computing device;

on a display of the computing device, prompting a user to re-position the physical object when the physical object is determined to be outside the predefined proximity;

determining that the physical object, when re-positioned within the predefined proximity, is not associated with any of the plurality of files;

in response to determining that the physical object is not associated with any of the plurality of files, enabling the user to associate the physical object with at least one file of the plurality of files by performing a hand gesture with respect to the physical object and a representation of the at least one file presented on the display;

detecting the hand gesture using the sensor by detecting the user (i) closing a hand over a portion of the display on which the representation of the at least one file is presented, (ii) moving the closed hand away from the display and to the physical object, and (iii) opening the closed hand over the object; and

in response to detecting the user opening the hand over the physical object, associating the physical object with the at least one file.

9. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the physical object by determining information corresponding to the detected physical object, and cause the computing device to determine that the physical object is not associated with any of the plurality of files by (i) comparing the information corresponding to the detected physical object with predefined information of a plurality of objects stored in the memory, and (ii) determining that the information corresponding to the detected physical object does not match predefined information for any of the plurality of objects.

10. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the hand gesture performed by the user by (i) tracking a movement and direction of the hand gesture, and (ii) determining that the hand gesture corresponds to a command to associate the physical object with the at least one file.

11. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the physical object by determining one or more dimensions of the physical object using the sensor or detecting a bar code provided on the physical object using the sensor.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

detecting a physical object within a viewing area of a three-dimensional depth sensor of the computing device;

determining whether the physical object is within a predefined proximity of the computing device;

on a display of the computing device, prompting a user to re-position the physical object when the physical object is determined to be outside the predefined proximity;

determining that the physical object, when re-positioned within the predefined proximity, is not associated with a file among a plurality of files stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium or another memory of the computing device;

in response to determining that the physical object is not associated with a file, enabling the user to associate the physical object with at least one file of the plurality of files stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium or the other memory of the computing device by performing a hand gesture with respect to the physical object and a representation of the at least one file presented on a display of the computing device;

detecting the hand gesture using the sensor by detecting the user (i) closing a hand over a portion of the display on which the representation of the at least one file is presented, (ii) moving the closed hand away from the display and to the physical object, and (iii) opening the closed hand over the physical object; and

in response to detecting the user opening the hand over the physical object, associating the physical object with the at least one file.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the physical object by causing the sensor to detect the physical object in response to receiving a request to scan the viewing area of the sensor.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the physical object by determining information corresponding to the detected physical object, and cause the computing device to determine that the physical object is not associated with any of the plurality of files by (i) comparing the information corresponding to the detected physical object with predefined information of a plurality of objects stored in the memory, and (ii) determining that the information corresponding to the detected physical object does not match predefined information for any of the plurality of objects.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to associate the physical object with the at least one file by storing the information corresponding to the detected physical object with the predefined information of the plurality of objects in the memory.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the hand gesture performed by the user by (i) tracking a movement and direction of the hand gesture, and (ii) determining that the hand gesture corresponds to a command to associate the physical object with the at least one file.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the physical object by determining one or more dimensions of the physical object using the sensor.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the physical object by detecting a bar code provided on the physical object using the sensor.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions cause the computing device to detect the physical object by detecting an image provided on the physical object using the sensor.