Interactive badge

• US 9,606,635 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2013
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Hodges, Stephen Edward, Pohl, Norman Timo, Helmes, John, Villar Martinez, Nicolas, Paek, Timothy S., Apacible, Johnson Tan
• Primary Examiner(s): Lao, Lun-Yi
• Assistant Examiner(s): DEADERICK, ELLIOTT J
• Application Number:
  US13/769,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20140232632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,502 Days
• Field of Search: 320138-139, 345/3.1, 345/182, 345/156
• 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 3/03 Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

A wearable interactive device, such as a wearable identity badge is disclosed. When a user moves the device, such as to position a display (e.g., part) of the device a sensed distance at a sensed horizontal and vertical angle, the device outputs content that is based on the position. Context data also may be used in determining the content to output, as well as any other sensed data that may be available.

Claims

1. A method performed at least in part on at least one processor, comprising:

manipulating a first piece of a multi-piece wearable interactive device relative to a second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device, the second piece being connected to the first piece by a connecting wire and a sensor mechanism and worn by a wearer of the device to provide position data, the sensor mechanism includes at least one sensor that senses the position data including a distance of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device relative to the second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device based upon movement of the connecting wire;

sensing a position of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device relative to the second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device to provide the position data based on the manipulation;

determining, based at least in part upon the position data, an output to be rendered via the multi-piece wearable interactive device; and

rendering the output via the multi-piece wearable interactive device based upon the determination.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising, using context data to determine the output that is rendered via the multi-piece wearable interactive device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein sensing the position of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device to provide the position data comprises sensing coordinates corresponding to the distance, a vertical angle and a horizontal angle.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining data from a remote device corresponding to at least part of the output to be rendered via the multi-piece wearable interactive device, or obtaining content from a remote device corresponding to the output to be rendered via the multi-piece wearable interactive device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the output comprises a displayed representation of a part of content, and wherein rendering the output via the multi-piece wearable interactive device comprises panning, scrolling, or zooming, or any combination of panning, scrolling or zooming to display a different representation of the content as the position data is changed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein rendering the output via the multi-piece wearable interactive device comprises at least one of rendering a badge image when there is no manual interaction, outputting control data for controlling a remote device, and unlocking a remote device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

inputting touch-based data, proximity-based data, gesture-based data, button-based data, pressure-based data, magnetometer-based data, accelerometer-based data, or gyroscope-based data, or any combination of touch-based data, proximity-based data, gesture-based data, button-based data, pressure-based data, magnetometer-based data, accelerometer-based data, or gyroscope-based data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein rendering the output via the multi-piece wearable interactive device comprises augmenting an image of the rendered output with virtual data.

9. In a computing environment, a system comprising:

a multi-piece wearable interactive device that includes at least one processor programmed to;

determine a position data of a first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device based at least in part on interaction with the multi-piece wearable interactive device, the position data being determined relative to a second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive, the second piece being connected to the first piece by a connecting wire and a sensor mechanism and worn by a wearer of the device to provide the position data, the sensor mechanism includes at least one sensor that senses the position data including a distance of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device relative to the second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device based upon movement of the connecting wire; and

render output content, in which the output content is rendered based at least in part upon a position of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device relative to the second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the multi-piece wearable interactive device includes a rules engine configured to render the output content.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein at least a part of the multi-piece wearable interactive device comprises an identity badge.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the sensor mechanism further comprises at least one sensor that provides at least one angle of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device relative to the second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive device.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the first piece comprises a display part and the second piece comprises a belt clip part, and wherein at least a part of the sensor mechanism is incorporated into the belt clip part.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the belt clip part provides at least some power to another part of the multi-piece wearable interactive device, or wherein the belt clip part receives at least some power from another part of the multi-piece wearable interactive device.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the multi-piece wearable interactive device learns a gait of an authorized wearer of the multi-piece wearable interactive device over a period of time and detects a change in gait upon a different person wearing the multi-piece wearable interactive device.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the rendered output comprises panning, scrolling, or zooming, or any combination of panning, scrolling or zooming to display a different representation of the content as the position data is changed.

17. The system of claim 9, wherein the rendered output comprises augmenting an image of the rendered output with virtual data.

18. One or more computer devices storing computer executable instructions, which on execution perform operations, comprising:

manipulating a first piece of a multi-piece wearable interactive badge relative to a second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive badge, the second piece being connected to the first piece by a connecting wire and a sensor mechanism and worn by a wearer of the multi-piece wearable interactive badge, the manipulation being based on an interaction of the wearer with the multi-piece wearable interactive badge, the sensor mechanism includes at least one sensor that senses position data including a distance of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive badge relative to the second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive badge based upon movement of the connecting wire;

determining content based upon the position data; and

rendering the content via the multi-piece wearable interactive badge based at least in part upon a position of the first piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive badge relative to the second piece of the multi-piece wearable interactive badge.

19. The one or more computer devices of claim 18, wherein the multi-piece wearable interactive badge is configured to sense an atypical situation and raise a flag.

20. The one or more computer devices of claim 18 storing further computer executable instructions, which on execution perform operations comprising:

obtaining context data; and

determining the content based upon the position data and the obtained context data.