Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices for occluded gesture recognition. Through use of the techniques and devices described herein, users may control their devices even when a user's gesture is occluded by some material between the user's hands and the device itself. Thus, the techniques enable users to control their mobile devices in many situations in which control is desired but conventional techniques do permit effective control, such as when a user's mobile computing device is occluded by being in a purse, bag, pocket, or even in another room.

Abstract: A display device including a display unit which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of driving lines for driving the plurality of pixels; a driving circuit which drives the plurality of pixels through the plurality of driving lines; and a control unit which adjusts a driving capability of the driving circuit according to the number of simultaneous driving lines of the driving circuit.

Abstract: A method to provide an improved text entry user interface, with benefit to people with movement disorders. The method provides a virtual keyboard with active and inactive regions, and fixed or dynamically located target regions placed in relation to virtual keys. The method is insensitive to spurious movement of touch points, allowing persons with tremor to more easily provide input. The method provides, among other things, translations and completions based on dictionaries, word or letter frequency and language properties.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for RSS/AoA target 3-D localization in wireless networks and wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing combined measurements of received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AoA) are disclosed herein. By using the spherical coordinate conversion and available AoA observations to establish new relationships between the measurements and the unknown target location, a simple closed-form solution is developed. The method disclosed herein has a straightforward adaptation to the case where the target's transmit power is also not known. A representative set of simulations and experiments verify the potential performance improvement realized with embodiments of the method for RSS/AoA target 3-D localization in wireless networks.

Abstract: A gaze initiated interaction technique for facilitating interaction between wearers of head-mountable devices. Methods are shown which allow users to interact with each other following an event of interlocking gaze. Methods are also shown which allows the operator of a personal point-of-interest beacon to control and limit interaction from the public thus ensuring a greater degree of privacy. Methods are also introduced which allow a mode of interaction to be determined by a remote service after mutual authorization of each interacting user. This disclosure also introduces a system of a head-mountable device which comprises a directional beacon transceiver system using beams in the infrared light spectrum enabling the detection of a gaze interlock event.

Abstract: A haptic device is configured to obtain a predetermined distance and establish a contact position. The haptic device may monitor sensor data in order to determine an activity using a content module and access a lookup table to associate a contact position with the determined activity. A position module will monitor the position of the haptic device and detect when the haptic device is at the contact position. At the contact position, the haptic device will produce a haptic effect. In some embodiments, a display device may be in communication with the haptic device in order to transmit and receive data.

Abstract: Embodiments for a method and system for the making, storage and display of virtual image edits are disclosed. Source/linked image(s) (201a) in a web or other computer device (100a) environment may be virtually edited and/or combined with one another (102), by individual users, in collaboration with others or an automated program. Only the virtual edit alteration code, including the source image location information, are displayed (108) and saved (410), eliminating image redundancy, as the source images are not truly edited, copied or resaved, but instead remain stored at the copyright holder's disclosed location. Just as the House Of Mirrors in an amusement park changes ones reflection without changing the person, separating the image(s) from the virtual edits improves image load speeds and saves storage space. The said display is dynamically affected should the image copyright holder change or delete one of the source images.

Abstract: The invention discloses a system for accessing and viewing Internet content on a portable device by means of a proxy server. The server requests web content, renders it and sends compressed image parts to the device. In order for the device to be cost-competitive, its processing operations are generally limited to decompressing image parts and displaying them. The server sends information to the device that allows it to locally create, display and manage text boxes, in which the user can type immediately. As a user types into a local text box, text input data is communicated to the server and processed therein before further requests for web content. By simultaneously managing multiple text boxes locally, the present invention reduces instances of data transfer from the server to the device, which decreases the likelihood of lag and improves the performance of the device.

Abstract: Serial arranged circuits allow multiple different circuit nodes to receive power with a single conductor line carrying current. Data can be transmitted to the serially arranged circuit nodes by modulating the current on the single conductor line. However, switching transistors to modulate current can consume energy. To reduce the switching losses, a double ended driver circuit is disclosed. The doubled ended driver circuit includes switching capacitors and inductors at both ends of a serial string of circuit nodes.

Abstract: A touch-sensitive depressible button with multiple depression thresholds is provided. When the button is depressed to a first depression threshold, the touch sensor can be switched from a low-power, non-sensing state to a sensing state. When the button is depressed to a second depression threshold, the touch sensor can sense the touch context and input can be generated based on the depression and the touch context. In this way, the touch-sensitive depressible button with multiple depression thresholds can facilitate timely switching of the touch sensor to a sensing state.

Abstract: An electronic device and an object control method therefor are provided. The electronic device includes a display module configured to display at least one object on a screen of the electronic device, a user input module configured to receive a user input, and a processor configured to compare a coordinate of each of the objects with a coordinate of the user input and to control attributes of each of the objects.

Abstract: The prior auscultation technology is only applicable to the sound signals within the audio range and conducted by vibration. Disclosed in the present invention are a method and an apparatus for auscultating inaudible signals, and thus inaudible signals can be mapped into the audible range to form audible signals. The method comprises: obtaining signal data which comprise audible or inaudible signal data; extracting a signal waveform from the signal data; determining a play rate which allows the signal waveform to phonate by means of an audio play apparatus; and performing the auscultation with the signal waveform being played through the audio play apparatus at the play rate, or combining the play rate and the signal waveform to thereby constitute an audio signal, and then playing the audio signal through the audio player so as to achieve auscultation.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for encoding and decoding video using derived block vectors as predictors in intra block copy mode. In an exemplary encoding method, an encoder identifies at least a first candidate block vector for the prediction of an input video block, where the first candidate block vector points to a first candidate block. The encoder then identifies a first predictive vector (e.g. a block vector or a motion vector) that was used to encode the first candidate block. From the first candidate block vector and the first predictive vector, the encoder generates a derived predictive vector from the first candidate block vector and the first predictive vector. The encoder then encodes the video block in the bit stream using the derived predictive vector for the prediction of the input video block.

Abstract: A device that operates over a plurality of predetermined temperature ranges that can include a subthreshold operating circuit including a first insulated gate field effect device (IGFET) having a first conductivity type. The first IGFET can be coupled to receive a first back body bias potential that changes according to the temperature range in which the device is operating. The subthreshold operating circuit can operate at a power supply potential below a threshold voltage of the first IGFET.

Abstract: A force feedback system provides components for use in a force feedback system including a host computer and a force feedback interface device. An architecture for a host computer allows multi-tasking application programs to interface with the force feedback device without conflicts. One embodiment of a force feedback device provides both relative position reporting and absolute position reporting to allow great flexibility. A different device embodiment provides relative position reporting device allowing maximum compatibility with existing software. Information such as ballistic parameters and screen size sent from the host to the force feedback device allow accurate mouse positions and graphical object positions to be determined in the force feedback environment. Force feedback effects and structures are further described, such as events and enclosures.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory in which input instructions, force level assessment instructions, and output instructions are stored, and further includes a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured through execution of the input instructions to obtain measurement data for a user interaction with a force-sensitive touch sensor, the measurement data being indicative of position information for the user interaction, amplitude information for the user interaction, and size information for the user interaction. The processor is further configured through execution of the force level assessment instructions to apply force level calibration data to the amplitude information and the size information in a force level assessment of the user interaction, the force level calibration data varying with user interaction size. The processor is further configured through execution of the output instructions to provide an output in accordance with the force level assessment.

Abstract: Methods for piecewise-linear and piecewise-affine transformations parameter decoupling in High Dimensional Touchpad (HDTP) user touch interfaces including those with multitouch capabilities are described. A calculation chain provides a first-order calculation of a subset of a collection of touch parameters (including for example left-right, front-back, downward pressure, roll angle, pitch angle, yaw angle) responsive in real-time to user touch on a touch-responsive sensor array. A piecewise-affine transformation is applied to these first-order calculations to produce parameter decoupling. The piecewise-affine transformation can be structured to depend only on current numerical values from the first-order calculation. Alternatively, the piecewise-affine transformation can be structured to additionally depend on the positive or negative direction of change over time of at least one numerical value from the first-order calculation, thereby providing a correction for hysteresis effects.

Abstract: A signal modulator and method of use which provides means to dynamically vary the power supplied to a signal processing circuit, imbuing the output signal of the signal processing circuit with additional desirable modulation and distortion above and beyond what is typically produced by the signal processing circuit.

Abstract: Some implementations may present a media file that includes video on a touchscreen display. A user gesture performed on the touchscreen display may be detected. The user gesture may include one of a tap gesture, a swipe gesture, or a tap and hold and drag while holding gesture. Text selected by the user gesture may be determined. One or more follow-up actions may be performed automatically based at least partly on the text selected by the user gesture.

Abstract: A manipulation panel that is a user interface includes a display unit that displays a screen, a touch panel that detects a tap performed to the display unit, and an abnormality detector that detects a situation, in which a message is displayed on the display unit, until the touch panel detects a second tap constituting a double tap since detecting a first tap. Manipulation panel displays a warning message about the situation detected by the abnormality detector on the display unit after the touch panel detects the second tap.