TERMINAL OPERATIVE FOR DISPLAY OF ELECTRONIC RECORD

• US 20120194692A1
• Filed: 01/31/2011
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Plocher, Tom, Mers, Robert E. De
• Application Number:
  US13/018,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20120194692A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• 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 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• 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 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

There is set forth herein a terminal having an input device. The terminal can be hand held. In one embodiment the terminal can be operative for determining a direction of movement of the terminal by processing of signals generated by the input device. The terminal can further be operative for moving a portion of an electronic record displayed on a display of the terminal responsively to the determining of a direction of movement of the terminal.

Claims

1. An terminal comprising:

an image sensor array and an imaging lens for focusing an image of a target onto the image sensor array, the image sensor array being a two dimensional multiple pixel array having pixels arranged in rows and columns of pixels, the imaging lens and the image sensor array defining an imaging axis;

a display;

a hand held housing having disposed therein the image sensor array;

wherein the terminal is operative to process frames of image data captured utilizing the image sensor array for determining a direction of movement of the terminal;

wherein the terminal is further operative for changing a portion of an electronic record being displayed on the display responsively to a result of the determining.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the imaging axis extends forwardly from the terminal.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the display extends in a display plane, and wherein the imaging axis extends in a direction parallel to the display plane and forwardly from the terminal.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the display extends in a display plane, and wherein the imaging axis extends angularly and non-perpendicularly from the display plane.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the display extends in a display plane, and wherein the imaging axis extends perpendicularly from the display plane.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the processing includes determining a movement of a feature representation over a plurality of frames.

7. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the processing includes determining a movement of a feature representation over a plurality of frames, the feature representation being a bright region.

8. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the processing includes determining a movement of a feature representation over a plurality of frames, the feature representation being a dark region.

9. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the processing includes determining a movement of a feature representation over a plurality of frames, the feature representation being a representation of a corner.

10. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the processing includes determining a movement of a feature representation over a plurality of frames, the feature representation being a representation of an edge.

11. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal is operative for changing a portion of the electronic record being displayed by zooming a portion of the electronic record being displayed.

12. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal is operative for changing a portion of the electronic record being displayed by performing any one of the following:

moving a portion of the electronic representation being displayed leftward, moving a portion of the electronic representation being displayed rightward, moving a portion of the electronic representation being displayed upward, moving a portion of the electronic representation being displayed downward, zooming a portion of the electronic record being displayed, and reverse zooming a portion of the electronic representation being displayed.

13. A terminal comprising:

a hand held housing;

a display disposed on the housing, wherein the terminal is operative for displaying a portion of an electronic record on the display;

an input device for generating signals processable for determining a direction of movement of the terminal;

wherein the terminal is operative for processing signals generated by the input device for determining a direction of movement of the terminal;

wherein the terminal is further operative for changing a portion of an electronic record being displayed responsively to a result of the determining.

14. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the housing has a top and a bottom wherein the display is disposed at the top of the housing and wherein the input device is a mouse tracker disposed on a bottom of the housing.

15. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the input device is an image sensor array.

16. The terminal of claim 13, wherein the terminal includes an image sensor array and a mouse tracker, wherein the terminal is operative to determine a direction of the terminal by processing signals generated by the mouse tracker, the terminal further being operative to determine a direction of the terminal by processing signals generated the image sensor array.