System and method for enhanced command input

• US 9,927,972 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2015
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Hatambeiki, Arsham, Kohanek, Jeffrey, Keiles, Pamela Eichler, Hayes, Patrick H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shankar, Vijay
• Application Number:
  US14/978,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20160110039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• 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 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42221 Transmission circuitry, e.g. infrared [IR] or radio frequency [RF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42222 Additional components integrated in the remote control device, e.g. timer, speaker, sensors for detecting position, direction or movement of the remote control, microphone or battery charging device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

A portable electronic device having an input device for receiving a gesture based input from a user is used to control a navigation operation of an appliance. The portable electronic device receives via the input device the gesture based input and uses one or more parameters stored in a memory of the portable electronic device and one or more characteristics associated with the gesture based input to cause the portable electronic device to transmit a navigation step command to thereby control the navigation operation of the appliance.

Claims

1. A device for use in controlling a navigation operation of an appliance, comprising:

a processing device;

a touch-based input device having a maximum resolution (PHY-MAX) wherein the touch-based input device is adapted to provide to the processing device data indicative of a distance traveled on the touch-based input device by a gesture based input provided to the touch-based input device (PHY-D); and

a non-transient memory device;

wherein the non-transient memory device stores instructions that are executable by the processing device to cause the device to transmit to the appliance a logical number of navigation commands (STEP-D), wherein the transmitted navigation commands include data for use by the appliance to control the navigation operation of an appliance, and wherein the logical number of navigation commands to transmit to the appliance is determined using the formula;

STEP-D=int(PHY-D*STEP-MAX/PHY-MAX).

2. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the non-transient memory stores at least one of an acceleration coefficient parameter and a deceleration coefficient parameter and wherein the instructions cause the processing device to use the at least one of the acceleration coefficient parameter and the deceleration coefficient parameter to modify the logical number of navigation commands to be transmitted to the appliance.

3. The device as recited in claim 2, wherein user input provided to the device is used to establish the at least one of the acceleration coefficient parameter and the deceleration coefficient parameter.

4. The device as recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one of the acceleration coefficient parameter and the deceleration coefficient parameter is received by the device from the appliance.