METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING A SYSTEM VIA A SENSOR

• US 20190050065A1
• Filed: 10/16/2018
• Published: 02/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: West Texas Technology Partners LLC
• Original Assignee: Atheer, Inc.
• Inventors: Yang, Allen Yang
• Granted Patent: US 10,901,517 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0172 characterised by optical features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/14 by matching peak patterns
• 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: G06T 2207/10024 Color image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10028 Range image; Depth image; 3D point clouds
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30168 Image quality inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0002 Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/98 Detection or correction of errors, e.g. by rescanning the pattern or by human intervention; Evaluation of the quality of the acquired patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/64 Three-dimensional objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/28 Recognition of hand or arm movements, e.g. recognition of deaf sign language static hand signs G06V40/113

Abstract

A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for sensing determining levels of an object to execute a command. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: sensing an object that occupies a first portion of a field of view (FOV) of the sensor at a first point in time; determining a first saturation level of the object at the first portion of the FOV; sensing the object that occupies a second portion of the FOV of the sensor at a second point in time; determining a second saturation level of the object at the second portion of the FOV; determining that the first saturation level is different than the second saturation level; and in response to the first saturation level being different than the second saturation level, executing an executable command associated with the first saturation level and the second saturation level.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

sensing, by a sensor, an object that occupies a first portion of a field of view (FOV) of the sensor at a first point in time;

determining, by a processing device, a first saturation level of the object at the first portion of the FOV;

sensing, by the sensor, the object that occupies a second portion of the FOV of the sensor at a second point in time;

determining, by the processing device, a second saturation level of the object at the second portion of the FOV;

determining, by the processing device, that the first saturation level is different than the second saturation level; and

in response to the first saturation level being different than the second saturation level, executing an executable command associated with the first saturation level and the second saturation level.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a portion of an image or a video.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the first saturation level or the second saturation level is at least one of a maximum brightness level of the image or the video, a minimum brightness level of the image or the video, a maximum color channel brightness level of the image or the video, a minimum color channel brightness level of the image or the video, a substantially uninformatively uniform brightness level of the image or the video, a substantially uninformatively uniform color channel brightness level of the image or the video, an invalid brightness level of the image or the video, an invalid color brightness level of the image or the video, an error brightness level of the image or the video, or an error color brightness level of the image or the video.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a first amount of space the object that occupies in the first portion of the FOV is less than a second amount of space the object that occupies in the second portion of the FOV.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the object is a hand; and

the hand occupies a first amount of space in the first portion of the FOV that is less than a second amount of space the hand that occupies in the second portion of the FOV.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the object that occupies the first portion of the FOV of the sensor at the first point in time is an image of a hand covering a portion of the FOV of the sensor.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the object that occupies the first portion of the FOV of the sensor at the first point in time is an image that includes a portion of a hand and a portion of an environment approximate the hand; and

the portion of the hand covers a portion of the FOV of the sensor at the first point in time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the object that occupies the second portion of the FOV of the sensor at the first point in time is an image of a hand covering a portion of the FOV of the sensor.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the processing device is part of a head-mounted wearable device; and

the sensor is connected to the head-mounted wearable device such that the sensor is positioned approximate to an eye of a user of the head-mounted wearable device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein when the first saturation level is different than the second saturation level, the second saturation level is greater than the first saturation level.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a combination of the object occupying the first portion of the FOV at the first point in time and the object occupying the second portion of the FOV at the second point in time is a hand gesture of a user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the hand gesture terminates in a complete saturation of the FOV of the sensor.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the object is a first distance from the sensor at the first point in time; and

the object is a second distance from the sensor at the second point in time, wherein the first distance is different than the second distance.

14. A device, comprising:

a sensor configured to;

sense a first saturation level of an object at a first point in time; and

sense a second saturation level of the object at a second point in time; and

a processing device coupled to the sensor, wherein the processing device is configured to;

determine that the object occupies a first portion of a field of view (FOV) of the sensor at the first point in time based on the first saturation level, wherein the object occupying the first portion of the FOV is indicative of the object being a first distance from the sensor;

determine that the object occupies a second portion of the FOV at the second point in time based on the second saturation level, wherein the object occupying the second portion of the FOV is indicative of the object being a second distance from the sensor; and

in response to the object being at the first distance at the first point in time and the second distance at the second point in time, execute an executable command associated with the first saturation level and the second saturation level.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein when the object occupies the second portion of the FOV at the second point in time, the sensor senses an all-white image or an all-black image.

16. The device of claim 14, wherein the object moving from the first distance at the first point in time to the second distance at the second point in time is indicative of the object moving towards the sensor.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

a sensor configured to;

sense a movement of an object; and

sense a saturation level of the object; and

a processing device coupled to the sensor, wherein the processing device is configured to;

determine that the movement of the object matches a defined movement for a gesture;

determine the saturation level exceeds a threshold saturation level; and

in response to the movement of the object matching the defined movement for the gesture and the saturation level exceeds the threshold saturation level, execute an executable command associated with the gesture and threshold saturation level.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the object is a portion of an image or a video.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein:

the sensor is a thermal sensor; and

the saturation level is indicative of a thermal temperature of the object.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, the processing device is configured to execute the executable command when the saturation level of the object exceeds the threshold saturation level at a first point in time and the movement of the object matching the defined movement for the gesture at a second point in time.