Abstract: A real-time human activity recognition (rtHAR) engine embedded in a wearable device monitors a user's activities through the wearable device's sensors. The rtHAR uses the signals from the sensors to determine where the wearable device is relative to the user's body, and then determines the type of activity the user engages in depending upon the location of the wearable device relative to the user's body. The rtHAR is preferably installed on the wearable device as an embedded system, such as an operating system library or a module within software installed on the wearable device, so as to improve the quality of direct feedback from the wearable device to the user, and to minimize the amount of data sent from the wearable device to external archival and processing systems.

Abstract: A real-time human activity recognition (rtHAR) engine embedded in a wearable device monitors a user's activities through the wearable device's sensors. The rtHAR uses the signals from the sensors to determine where the wearable device is relative to the user's body, and then determines the type of activity the user engages in depending upon the location of the wearable device relative to the user's body. The rtHAR is preferably installed on the wearable device as an embedded system, such as an operating system library or a module within software installed on the wearable device, so as to improve the quality of direct feedback from the wearable device to the user, and to minimize the amount of data sent from the wearable device to external archival and processing systems.

Abstract: The disclosed technique, apparatuses and devices enable a mobile device to act as a pointing device equipped with integrated search tools, to define a virtual beam within which to search and discover information associated therewith. The user of the mobile device does not have to type, speak or otherwise specify keywords as search criteria. The search criteria can be merely the virtual beam itself. Search results are generated at a remote server system and communicated back to the mobile device, and then presented to its user via graphical, audio and/or other format.