SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING FALSE POSITIVES IN HUMAN-ELECTRONICS INTERFACES

• US 20180088765A1
• Filed: 11/21/2017
• Published: 03/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Thalmic Labs Inc.
• Inventors: Bailey, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US15/819,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20180088765A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection
• 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 3/0487 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

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods for mitigating false-positives in human-electronics interfaces are described. A human-electronics interface includes a first interface device that is responsive to inputs of a first form from a user and a second interface device that is responsive to inputs of a second form from the user. The first interface device enables the user to control the interface through inputs of the first form while the second interface device enables the user to control, through inputs of the second form, at least a locked/unlocked state of the interface with respect to the first interface device. In the locked state, the interface is unresponsive to inputs (in particular, accidental inputs or “false-positives”) of the first form whereas in the unlocked state the interface is responsive to inputs of the first form.

Claims

1. A human-electronics interface comprising:

a first interface device responsive to inputs of a first form from a user, wherein the first interface device includes a first processor and a first non-transitory processor-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the first processor, and wherein the first non-transitory processor-readable storage medium stores;

processor-executable locking instructions that, when executed by the first processor, cause the human-electronics interface to enter into a locked state with respect to the first interface device, wherein in the locked state with respect to the first interface device the human-electronics interface is unresponsive to inputs of the first form from the user; and

processor-executable unlocking instructions that, when executed by the first processor, cause the human-electronics interface to enter into an unlocked state with respect to the first interface device, wherein in the unlocked state with respect to the first interface device the human-electronics interface is responsive to inputs of the first form from the user;

and

a second interface device responsive to inputs of a second form from the user, the second form different from the first form, wherein the second interface device includes a second processor and a second non-transitory processor-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the second processor, and wherein the second non-transitory processor-readable storage medium stores;

processor-executable input processing instructions that, when executed by the second processor, cause the second interface device to, in response to detecting an input of the second form from the user, cause the first processor of the first interface device to execute the processor-executable unlocking instructions.

2. The human-electronics interface of claim 1, further comprising a wearable heads-up display that includes the second interface device, wherein the second interface device includes an eye-tracker and inputs of the second form include specific eye-positions and/or gaze directions of the user that correspond to specific display regions of the wearable heads-up display.

3. The human-electronics interface of claim 1 wherein the first interface device includes at least one device selected from a group consisting of:

a gesture control device for which inputs of the first form include gestures performed by the user and detected by the gesture control device, and a portable interface device including at least one actuator for which inputs of the first form include activations of at least one actuator by the user.

4. The human-electronics interface of claim 1, further comprising a wearable heads-up display that includes the first interface device, wherein the first interface device includes an eye-tracker and inputs of the first form include specific eye-positions and/or gaze directions of the user that correspond to specific display regions of the wearable heads-up display.

5. The human-electronics interface of claim 1 wherein the processor-executable locking instructions that, when executed by the first processor while the human-electronics interface is in the unlocked state with respect to the first interface device, cause the human-electronics interface to enter into a locked state with respect to the first interface device, cause the human-electronics interface to enter into the locked state with respect to the first interface device in response to at least one trigger selected from a group consisting of:

a particular input of the second form detected by the second interface device, a particular input of the first form detected by the first interface device, a particular combination of at least one input of the first form detected by the first interface device and at least one input of the second form detected by the second interface device, an elapsed time without detecting any inputs of the first form by the first interface device, and an elapsed time without detecting any inputs of the second form by the second interface device.