Wearable device and method for controlling the same

• US 9,521,245 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2014
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Woosock
• Primary Examiner(s): FILE, ERIN M
• Application Number:
  US14/516,135
• Publication Number:
  US 20150111558A1
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/04 using radio waves radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/08 Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions

Abstract

A smart watch including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a battery configured to supply power to the smart watch; a base including a display configured to display information; first and second bands connected to the base such that the smart watch is attachable to a wrist of a user; and a processor configured to receive a palm touch input of the user on the display, and change a current status of the smart watch based on the received palm touch input.

Claims

1. A smart watch comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication;

a battery configured to supply power to the smart watch;

a base including a display configured to display information;

first and second bands connected to the base such that the smart watch is attachable to a wrist of a user; and

a processor configured to;

receive a palm touch input of the user on the display that covers the entire display,

calculate a sum of a recognition strength of one or more areas of a palm touching a touch panel of the display,

determine the palm touch input is a palm touch when the calculated sum of the recognition strength is greater than a size, which is previously determined, and

change a current status of the smart watch based on the received palm touch input.

2. The smart watch according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive a gesture input of the palm touch input, and

display an image on the display in accordance with a direction of the received gesture of the palm touch input.

3. The smart watch according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive an incoming communication event on the smart watch, and

accept or reject the incoming communication event based on a length of time the palm touch input remains on the display.

4. The smart watch according to claim 1, further comprising:

a speaker configured to output sound,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

mute or lower a volume of the sound output by the speaker based on the palm touch input.

5. The smart watch according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

execute a predetermined function previously linked to the palm touch input.

6. The smart watch according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display different pages on the display based on the palm touch input.

7. The smart watch according to claim 1, wherein the base includes a touch pad and the at least one of the first and second bands includes a sensor, and

wherein the processor is further configured to:

execute a predetermined function on the display based on a user input through the sensor or touch pad.

8. The smart watch according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined function includes one of moving or scrolling information displayed on the display in a direction of the user input.

9. The smart watch according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined function includes forwarding or rewinding a media content being output on the smart watch based on a direction of the user input.

10. The smart watch according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined function includes paging through a picture gallery being output on the display based on a direction of the user input or rotating a currently displayed picture being output on the display based on the direction of the user input.

11. The smart watch according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined function includes snoozing or dismissing an alarm being output on the smart watch based on a direction of the user input.

12. The smart watch according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined function includes enlarging information displayed on the display based on the sensor sensing a stretching of the smart watch towards the user.

13. The smart watch according to claim 7, wherein the predetermined function includes locking and unlocking the smart watch based on rotating the smart watch on the wrist of the user in a predetermined rotating pattern including clockwise and counterclockwise predetermined rotations of the smart watch on the wrist of the user.

14. The smart watch according to claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to:

sense whether the smart watch is detached from the wrist of the user or whether the display is detached from the base.

15. The smart watch according to claim 14, wherein when the display is sensed to be detached from the base, the processor is further configured to transmit control signals to the detached display via the wireless communication unit to control functions of the display based on the user input.

16. The smart watch according to claim 14, wherein when the display is sensed to be detached from the base, the processor is further configured to:

perform pairing with at least one external device,

receive a control signal from the paired external device, and

control the display based on the received control signal, and

wherein the paired external device includes at least one of a head mounted display (HMD), glasses, a mobile device, and a standing device.

17. The smart watch according to claim 14, wherein when the smart watch is sensed to be detached from the wrist of the user, the processor is further configured to:

perform at least one of a powering off of the smart watch, powering off the display, and entering a watch mode.

18. A method of controlling a smart watch including a processor, a battery configured to supply power to the smart watch, a base including a display configured to display information, and first and second bands connected to the base such that the smart watch is attachable to a wrist of a user, the method comprising:

providing wireless communication via a wireless communication unit;

supplying power to the smart watch via the battery;

displaying information on the display;

receiving, via a process or the smart watch, a palm touch input of the user on the display covering the entire display,

calculating, via the processor, a sum of a recognition strength of one or more areas of a palm touching a touch panel of the display,

determining, via the processor, the palm touch input is a palm touch when the calculated sum of the recognition strength is greater than a size, which is previously determined, and

changing, via the processor, a current status of the smart watch based on the received palm touch input.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising:

receiving a gesture input of the palm touch input; and

displaying an image of the display in accordance with a direction of the received gesture of the palm touch input.