Method for controlling call termination based on gaze, and mobile communication terminal therefor

• US 9,277,380 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2013
• Issued: 03/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Sung Min
• Primary Examiner(s): DOAN, KIET M
• Application Number:
  US13/886,140
• Publication Number:
  US 20140171037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,034 Days
• Field of Search: 455/420, 455/566, 455/456.2, 455/556.1, 455/414.1, 345/156, 345/697, 345/589, 345/158, 345/173, 345/8, 600/558, 434/236
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal for controlling call termination based on a user'"'"'s gaze includes a call answer and decline judging unit configured to compare a user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency with preset call answer and call decline frequencies and judge a call answer or a call decline according to frequencies coinciding with each other; and a call termination control processing unit configured to perform a call mode or a call refusal mode according to the judgment of the call answer and decline judging unit.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal for controlling call termination based on a user'"'"'s gaze, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

a wireless communicating unit;

a call termination control mode managing unit configured to change a mode of the mobile communication terminal into a call termination control mode as a call connection request is received from an originating mobile communication terminal, thereby displaying a gaze movement frequency detecting screen, the gaze movement frequency detecting screen containing one or more moving objects;

an image detecting unit configured to detect a user'"'"'s eyeball image moving according to at least one of the moving objects on the gaze movement frequency detecting screen through a camera apparatus;

a gaze movement frequency detecting unit configured to detect a user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency based on the user'"'"'s eyeball image;

a call answer and decline judging unit configured to compare the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency with preset call answer and call decline frequencies and judge a call answer or a call decline according to frequencies coinciding with each other; and

a call termination control processing unit configured to perform a call mode or a call refusal mode according to the judgment of the call answer and decline judging unit,

wherein the one or more moving objects are at least two pointers, and

wherein the call termination control mode managing unit displays a call answer section displaying a pointer moving according to the call answer frequency and a call decline section displaying a pointer moving according to the call decline frequency on the gaze movement frequency detecting screen.

2. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the gaze movement frequency detecting unit performs the Fourier transform or the unequally spaced fast Fourier transform on the user'"'"'s eyeball image moving according to the pointer of the call answer section or the call decline section to detect the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency.

3. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storing unit configured to store terminal related information including the call answer frequency and the call decline frequency therein; and

an outputting unit configured to display the gaze movement frequency detecting screen according to a request of the call termination control mode managing unit and output the terminal related information in at least one form of a text, an image, and an audio.

4. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the call answer and decline judging unit is configured to judge the call answer or the call decline by determining whether the absolute value of a difference between the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency (f_eye) and the call decline frequency (f₁) is equal to or smaller than a reference value (ε

_thres) through |f_eye−

f₁|≦

ε

_thres or whether the absolute value of a difference between the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency (f_eye) and the call answer frequency (f₂) is equal to or smaller than the reference value (ε

_thres) through |f_eye−

f₂|≦

ε

_thres.

5. A method for controlling call termination based on a gaze in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving, by the mobile communication terminal, a call connection request from an originating mobile communication terminal;

changing a mode of the mobile communication terminal into a call termination control mode to display a gaze movement frequency detecting screen containing one or more moving objects;

detecting, by the mobile communication terminal, a user'"'"'s eyeball image moving according to at least one of the moving objects on the gaze movement frequency detecting screen;

detecting, by the mobile communication terminal, a user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency based on the user'"'"'s eyeball image;

comparing, by the mobile communication terminal, the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency with preset call answer and call decline frequencies to confirm whether or not they coincide with each other; and

changing the mode of the mobile communication terminal into a call mode if the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency coincides with the call answer frequency,

wherein in the step of changing the mode of the mobile communication terminal into the call termination control mode to display the gaze movement frequency detecting screen, a call answer section displaying a pointer moving according to the call answer frequency and a call decline section displaying a pointer moving according to the call decline frequency are displayed on the gaze movement frequency detecting screen.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising, after the step of comparing the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency with the preset call answer and call decline frequencies by the mobile communication terminal to confirm whether or not they coincide with each other, changing the mode of the mobile communication terminal into a call refusal mode in the case in which the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency coincides with the call decline frequency.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein in the step of detecting the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency based on the user'"'"'s eyeball image by the mobile communication terminal, the Fourier transform or the unequally spaced fast Fourier transform is performed on the user'"'"'s eyeball image moving according to the pointer of the call answer section or the call decline section to detect the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the step of comparing the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency with preset call answer and call decline frequencies comprises determining whether the absolute value of a difference between the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency (f_eye) and the call decline frequency (f₁) is equal to or smaller than a reference value (ε

_thres) through |f_eye−

f₁|≦

ε

_thres or whether the absolute value of a difference between the user'"'"'s gaze movement frequency (f_eye) and the call answer frequency (f₂) is equal to or smaller than the reference value (<sub>ε

thres</sub>) through |f_eye−

f₂|≦

ε

_thres.