AUTOMATED CONTROLS FOR SENSOR ENABLED USER INTERFACE

• US 20120054620A1
• Filed: 08/31/2010
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tilley, Patrick, Morley-Smith, James, Sadler, Dan
• Granted Patent: US 9,164,542 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/727
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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 3/0346 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A mobile unit includes a processor, a memory, and a display. The display shows a user interface including a plurality of commands. Each sensory activated command of the plurality of commands is shown with a respective icon indicative of at least one of a motion and an orientation assigned to the sensory activated command.

Claims

1. A mobile unit, comprising:

a processor;

a memory; and

a display showing a user interface including a plurality of commands, each sensory activated command of the plurality of commands being shown with a respective icon indicative of at least one of a motion and an orientation assigned to the sensory activated command.

2. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein the sensory activated commands are associated with default at least one of motions and orientations and respective default icons.

3. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein select ones of the sensory activated commands are associated with personalized motions and personalized icons.

4. The mobile unit of claim 1, further comprising:

a speaker playing audio cues indicative of the at least one of the motion and the orientation.

5. The mobile unit of claim 1, further comprising:

a sensor determining the at least one of the motion and, the orientation.

6. The mobile unit of claim 5, wherein the sensor is one of an accelerometer, a touch screen detector, a magnetometer, a gyroscope, and a combination thereof.

7. The mobile unit of claim 5, further comprising:

at least one further input receiving device.

8. The mobile unit of claim 7, wherein the sensor and the at least one further input receiving device are used for activating the respective motion activated command.

9. The mobile unit of claim 3, wherein the personalized motions are one of selected from a list of available motions and orientations and created by a user and wherein the personalized icons are one of selected from a list of available icons and created by a user.

10. The mobile unit of claim 1, wherein the icon is user created.

11. A method, comprising:

receiving a selection of a command to be sensory activated;

receiving a selection of at least one of a motion and an orientation for the command and a sensory icon for the at least one of the motion and the orientation; and

creating a user interface including the command, a command icon of the command being shown with the sensory icon.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one of the motion and the orientation is selected from a list of available motions and the sensory icon is selected from a list of available icons.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the selection of the at least one of a motion and an orientation is chosen from a gesture template.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

generating a preview of the sensory icon.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the selection of the at least one of the motion and the orientation is filtered as a function of further sensory activated commands on the user interface.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one of the motion and the orientation is categorized into class types.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the user interface includes at least one further sensory activated command, each of the at least one further sensory activated command being shown with a respective further icon.

17. The method of claim 17, wherein the sensory icons are associated with a respective one of the class types.

18. The method of claim 18, wherein the list of available motions and the list of available icons are filtered as a function of the class types for the selection of the at least one of the motion and the orientation and the sensory icon.

20. A mobile unit, comprising:

a processor;

a memory; and

a display means for showing a user interface including a plurality of commands, each sensory activated command of the plurality of commands being shown with a respective icon indicative of at least one of a motion and an orientation assigned to the sensory activated command.