Gesture-based Patents (Class 715/863)
  • Patent number: 10748384
    Abstract: In one aspect, an electronic gaming machine includes a game controller that executes instructions that cause the game controller to: (i) display a plurality of reels to form a matrix of symbol positions; (ii) simulate spinning the plurality of reels; (iii) display a plurality of player-populated symbol positions within the matrix; (iv) display a first player-selectable symbol of a sequence of player-selectable symbols; (v) receive, during the spinning, an add gesture associated with the first player-selectable symbol representing a request for addition of the first player-selectable symbol to the matrix; (vi) add the first player-selectable symbol to a first player-populated symbol position in response to the add gesture; (vii) simulate stopping each reel of the plurality of reels, the first player-selectable symbol overlaying a reel symbol at the first player-populated symbol positions; and (viii) evaluate the symbols displayed within the matrix to determine a game outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jana Rose Cash-Silva
  • Patent number: 10739971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques accessing and displaying information pertaining to past times and future times. In some embodiments, a device displays a first current-time indicator and a user interface object configured to display information corresponding to a first information source and to the current time. In some embodiments, in response to and in accordance with detecting a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism, the device displays a non-current-time indicator indicating a non-current time, and updates the first user interface object to display information corresponding to the first information source and the non-current time. In some embodiments, the device continues to display an indication of the current time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Lance Wilson, Aurelio Guzman, Paul W. Salzman, Kevin Will Chen, Lee S. Broughton, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 10739862
    Abstract: During control of a user interface via free-space motions of a hand or other suitable control object, switching between control modes can be facilitated by tracking the control object's movements relative to, and its penetration of, a virtual control construct (such as a virtual surface construct). The position of the virtual control construct can be updated, continuously or from time to time, based on the control object's location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Raffi Bedikian, Jonathan Marsden, Keith Mertens, David Holz
  • Patent number: 10732719
    Abstract: An approach is disclosed that detects an input instrument hovering a distance away from an object displayed on an input surface and performing an action in response to the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John C. Mese, Arnold S. Weksler, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell S. VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10733216
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system that collects customer data in a way that creates a shared experience. More specifically, an interactive map for customer engagement is provided. In some embodiments, this information may be displayed at the establishment for other customers to view. This system and method may receive and save addresses to show where customers may originate from. Displaying an interactive map may allow a company to gather data from their customers while engaging the customers in a social sharing platform. This may increase the likelihood that a customer may provide the data and increase a sense of community within a customer pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Inventor: William D. Mixon
  • Patent number: 10726347
    Abstract: To simplify assisting a user in their day-to-day activities, a communication for performing an action may be sent to a user in the form of a query, where the query includes the most likely set of choices for the action arranged in a group of dichotomous (e.g., yes/no) or multiple choice answers. In this manner, a user may respond to the query by simply selecting one of the dichotomous or multiple choice answers. Historical logs of past actions, responses, queries, and so forth, may be used to predict future user actions or needs, and to formulate future queries for sending to the user. These techniques may be implemented, for example, through a remote coordination server or directly through a user's personal electronics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telepathy Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Damien Phelan Stolarz, David Joseph Diaz, James Rossfeld, Scott Raven, Christopher O'Malley, Christopher Kurpinski
  • Patent number: 10726267
    Abstract: A system is provided which utilizes multiple combinations of object location technology to locate objects and direct users to them, and which provides reliable owner recognition and ownership verification with the use of displayed augmented reality with a predefined image of the object and/or the user. Further, the system utilizes augmented reality fingerprint markers. When the augmented reality fingerprint marker is positioned on an object and scanned with a smart device, information relating to the object is superimposed on the object displayed on the smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventor: Carl Lamont
  • Patent number: 10726266
    Abstract: An example system includes a computing device located proximate to a physical activity surface, a video capture device, and a detector. The video capture device is coupled for communication with the computing device and is adapted to capture a video stream that includes an activity scene of the physical activity surface and one or more interface objects physically intractable with by a user. The detector processes the video stream to detect the one or more interface objects included in the activity scene, to identify the one or more interface objects that are detectable, to generate one or more events describing the one or more interface objects, and to provide the one or more events to an activity application configured to render virtual information on the one or more computing devices based on the one or more events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Tangible Play, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jerome Scholler
  • Patent number: 10725652
    Abstract: A system, a method, and a computer program product for providing wearable continuous blood glucose monitoring. In some embodiments, there is provided a method that includes receiving, at a smartwatch, an alert representative of a glucose state of a host-patient coupled to a glucose sensor; detecting, at the smartwatch, a predetermined action indicative of a request to generate a glance view providing an indication of the glucose state of the host-patient; and presenting, at the smartwatch and in response to the detecting, the glance view providing the indication of the glucose state of the host-patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Eric Cohen, Arturo Garcia, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Michael Robert Mensinger, Eli Reihman, Brian Christopher Smith, Peter Hedlund, Esteban Cabrera, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10725633
    Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes detecting a first touch event on a touch-sensitive input area of a device, determining that the first touch event corresponds to a command to anchor a first cursor at a current location of the first cursor on a display area coupled to the touch-sensitive input area, anchoring the first cursor at the current location thereof on the display area in response to determining that the first touch event corresponds to the command to anchor the first cursor, detecting a second touch event, outputting a second cursor on the display area, changing the output location of the second cursor in response to detecting that a detected touch of the second touch event departs from a starting location of the second touch event, and outputting a selection indicator on a portion of the display area between the first cursor and second cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: THUMBA, Inc.
    Inventors: Andras Plank S., Gabor A. Rab, Felician Benda
  • Patent number: 10725654
    Abstract: A method for displaying an image selected from a plurality of images on a touch screen includes following steps. The steps are displaying an image among the plurality of images, each of which is associated with different one of consecutive identification numbers, and upon detecting a writing operation of a numerical value, storing the numerical value in a memory. When a first swipe operation in a first direction is detected after the writing operation, one of the images associated with an identification number that is equal to an identification number of the displayed image plus the stored numerical value is displayed. When a second swipe operation in a second direction opposite to the first direction is detected after the writing operation, one of the images associated with an identification number that is equal to the identification number of the displayed image minus the stored numerical value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Inagi, Masaki Narahashi, Hiroyo Tanaka, Sou Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10719293
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an interactive control method and device for voice and video communications. The method includes: acquiring user action data inputted by a user in a preset manner, in which the preset manner includes a voice manner and/or a gesture manner; determining whether the user action data includes preset trigger information; and when the user behavior data comprises the preset trigger information, determining an operation instruction corresponding to the preset trigger information in a preset operation instruction set, and performing an event corresponding to the operation instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Feng Li
  • Patent number: 10719230
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: displaying a continuous content stream of individually actionable content items; automatically recognizing, while the continuous content stream is being displayed, a mode change from a control mode to a signal mode; receiving a touch input after the mode change is recognized and, in response, using a neural network to generate output data indicating a gesture classification for the touch input, wherein the touch input is received in relation to a particular actionable content item that is in a visible portion of the continuous content stream; performing, according to the output data, an action for the particular actionable content item; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: Atlassian Pty Ltd, Atlassian, Inc.
    Inventor: Noam Bar-on
  • Patent number: 10715688
    Abstract: A display device includes a display portion, a display processing portion, a detecting portion, and a notification processing portion. The display processing portion displays one or more predetermined display objects on the display portion. The detecting portion detects a shielded area in the display portion shielded by a shielding object. The notification processing portion notifies by voice, among the one or more display objects, a display object that includes an area partially or completely overlapped with the shielded area detected by the detecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hayato Minamide
  • Patent number: 10712934
    Abstract: While displaying a first user interface that corresponds to a display-on state of an electronic device, the device detects a swipe gesture on a touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the swipe gesture: when the swipe gesture is in a first direction, the device replaces display of the first user interface with display of a camera application user interface; when the swipe gesture is in a second direction, the device replaces display of the first user interface with display of a mini application object user interface that is configured to include a plurality of mini application objects; when the swipe gesture is in a third direction, the device displays a first page of a multipage control panel user interface; and when the swipe gesture is in a fourth direction, the device displays a notifications user interface that is configured to display a plurality of notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher P. Foss, Richard R. Dellinger, Jonathan R. Dascola, Caelan G. Stack, Imran A. Chaudhri, Marcel van Os, Arian Behzadi
  • Patent number: 10708455
    Abstract: An operation input device includes a display processing portion, a setting processing portion, and a notification processing portion. The display processing portion displays an operation icon made to correspond to a predetermined process on a display portion. The setting processing portion sets an operation restricting area in which a touch operation on the display portion is restricted. The notification processing portion notifies, by voice, the operation icon partially or completely overlapped with the operation restricting area set by the setting processing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hayato Minamide
  • Patent number: 10702777
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display screen, and computing hardware to execute a software product. Executing the software product results in generating and rendering a graphical user interface on the display screen to facilitate user interaction. The graphical user interface, when rendered, presents one or more graphical objects, a pointer object configured to be movable over one or more of the one or more graphical objects, and configured to invoke a menu list containing one or more user selectable options as the pointer object is clicked or tapped over the one or more of the one or more of the graphical objects. A user selectable option is selected the pointer object swipes a touch sensitive object and the software product can maintain an effect corresponding to the selected option to be applied to the graphical objects and enable a change in status of the graphical objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Supercell Oy
    Inventors: Timur Haussila, Touko Tahkokallio, Mikko Hokkanen
  • Patent number: 10698603
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems that enable a smartphone-based radar system facilitating ease and accuracy of user interactions with displayed objects in an augmented-reality interface. The techniques and systems use a radar field to accurately determine three-dimensional (3D) gestures that can be used to interact with augmented-reality (AR) objects that are presented on a display of an electronic device, such as a smartphone. These techniques allow the user to make 3D gestures from a distance—the user does not have to hold the electronic device steady while touching the screen and the gestures do not obstruct the user's view of the AR objects presented on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Leonardo Giusti, Ivan Poupyrev, Patrick M. Amihood
  • Patent number: 10698653
    Abstract: For selecting multimodal elements, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a coarse-grained indication indicating a coarse-grained portion of an electronic document, receiving an audio signal comprising a fine-grained indication indicating a fine-grained portion of the coarse-grained portion and a command to be performed on the fine-grained portion, and executing the command on the fine-grained portion in response to receiving the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Antoine Roland Raux, Akshay Chandrashekaran
  • Patent number: 10698495
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes intelligent gesture controlled security systems. A security system acts as a gateway between a user and a restricted area, whether physical or electronic. One gesture controlled security system includes a camera capable of monitoring a real time gesture, a memory operable to store data, a locking assembly having a locked state and an unlocked state, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the locking assembly, and the camera. The processor is operable to utilize the camera to detect a gesture, store the detected gesture in the memory, compare the detected gesture to a stored gesture, and only upon determining that the real time gesture is within a predetermined threshold of the stored gesture, causing the locking assembly to change from the locked state to the unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Newtonoid Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Fielding B. Staton, David Strumpf
  • Patent number: 10691298
    Abstract: A side menu displaying method and apparatus and a terminal, which relate to the terminal field. The method includes receiving a sliding operation of sliding starting from a side of a screen; detecting whether the sliding operation meets a predefined condition, where the predefined condition includes that a sliding speed of the sliding operation is greater than a preset threshold, and an end position of the sliding operation is not within a preset false touch area; and displaying a side menu corresponding to the side of the screen if a detection result is that the sliding operation meets the predefined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyong Zhang, Zhangquan Zhao
  • Patent number: 10691429
    Abstract: A method for creating a wireframe model for a user interface. A computer identifies an image on a user interface. The computer performs image recognition to identify objects and text within the image. The computer creates a digital widget model based on the step of performing image recognition. The computer delivers digital widget output to a user experience designer for editing, wherein the digital widget output is based on the step of creating. The computer stores edits made by the user experience designer in a historical records database and the wireframe model design is finalized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Kumar Ananthapur Bache, Jhilam Bera, Vijay Ekambaram, Saravanan Sadacharam
  • Patent number: 10691075
    Abstract: A timepiece includes one or more processors; and a display unit controlled by the one or more processors. The one or more processors perform: obtaining a clock hand image; obtaining positional information indicating a location of the timepiece; and controlling the display unit to display a map image that includes the location of the timepiece and to display the clock hand image superimposed onto the map image in such a rotated manner as to indicate a time, a center of rotation of the clock hand image being set at the location of the timepiece in the map image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10684751
    Abstract: A display method including the steps of displaying document data and/or content data including a plurality of objects, controlling an arrangement position of a translucent focus area on a display unit, where the focus area is provided to make the object enter a selection state, detecting a position on the display unit, where a user contacts the display unit at the position, and moving the focus area as the contact position is moved when the detected arrangement position of the focus area is approximately equivalent to the detected contact position is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Tatsushi Nashida, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10684758
    Abstract: The unified system for bimanual interactions provides a lightweight and integrated interface that allows the user to efficiently interact with and manipulate content in the user interface. The system is configured to detect a multi-finger interaction on the touchscreen and to differentiate whether the user intends to pan, zoom or frame a portion of the user interface. Generally, the framing interaction is identified by detection of the user's thumb and forefinger on the touchscreen, which cooperate to define a focus area between vectors extending outwards from the user's thumb and forefinger. Upon a determination that the user intends to interact with or manipulate content within the focus area, the unified system for bimanual interactions provides an indication of the objects that are located within the focus area and contextual menus for interacting with the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michel Pahud, William Arthur Stewart Buxton, Haijun Xia
  • Patent number: 10678326
    Abstract: The large display interaction implementations described herein combine mobile devices with people tracking to enable new interactions including making a non-touch-sensitive display touch-sensitive and allowing personalized interactions with the display. One implementation tracks one or more mobile computing device users relative to a large computer-driven display, and configures content displayed on the display based on a distance a given mobile computing device user is from the display. Another implementation personalizes user interactions with a large display. One or more mobile computing device users are tracked relative to a display. The identity of each of the one or more mobile computing device users is obtained. Content displayed on the display is configured based on a distance an identified mobile computing device user is from the display and the identity of the user that provides the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Yinpeng Chen, Sasa Junuzovic, Zhengyou Zhang, Zicheng Liu
  • Patent number: 10671212
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a system, method, and computer program product are provided, where one embodiment involves a non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer instructions that; when executed by at least one processor of a mobile device including a touch screen, and a memory, and an actuator coupled to the at least one processor; cause the mobile device to: display indicia associated with an application, utilizing the touch screen; when a first duration of a touch being applied to the touch screen is detected as ceasing in connection with the indicia, perform an operation; when a second duration of the touch, that is different than the first duration of the touch, being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first duration is detected without the ceasing, output feedback that is perceptible by touch, utilizing the actuator; when the second duration of the touch being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S. Smith
  • Patent number: 10671031
    Abstract: A method of detecting a hand-to-mouth (HMG) gesture with an e-vaping device includes detecting movements of the e-vaping device; generating quaternions based on the detected movements; generating movement features based on the generated quaternions; applying the generated movement features to a classifier; and determining whether the detected movements correspond to an HMG based on an output of the classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Eric Hawes, Raymond Lau, Terry Bache, Niall Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10664097
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided for displaying a plurality of user interface elements on a display including a first user interface element and a second user interface element; detecting a first contact moving across the display; and, while the first contact is detected moving across the display: moving the first user interface element in a first direction on the display at a first speed; and moving the second user interface element in the first direction on the display at a second speed greater than the first speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S Smith
  • Patent number: 10656759
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus and associated method are provided, comprising: at a device including a display and a touch interface: display, utilizing the display, a graphical user interface including: a first object at a first location on the graphical user interface, and a second object at a second location on the graphical user interface; while the graphical user interface is displayed, detect, utilizing the touch interface, a gesture that starts at a third location on the graphical user interface that is different from both the first location and the second location on the graphical user interface; while the graphical user interface is displayed after the gesture is detected to start at the third location on the graphical user interface, detect, utilizing the touch interface, a movement of the gesture; and in response to detection, utilizing the touch interface, of the movement of the gesture, change at least one aspect of the second object, while not changing the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S Smith
  • Patent number: 10656752
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided for displaying, on a display, a first user interface that includes one or more selectable user interface objects; detecting that an input on a touch-sensitive surface, which is at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a respective user interface object of the one or more selectable user interface objects, is in a first touch state; in response to detecting a cessation of the input while the input is in the first touch state, displaying information associated with the respective user interface object; detecting that the input on the touch-sensitive surface, which is at the location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the respective user interface object of the one or more selectable user interface objects, is in a second touch state; in response to detecting that the input is in the second touch state, blurring or shading at least a portion of the first user interface; and in response to detecting that the input is in the second touch stat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S Smith
  • Patent number: 10656756
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided, comprising: a non-transitory memory storing instructions and a plurality of applications; a touch screen; and one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory and the touch screen, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to cause the apparatus to: present a particular object utilizing the touch screen; detect a contact being detected on the touch screen on the particular object; in the event that a first duration of the contact is detected on the touch screen on the particular object, perform an operation; and in the event that a second duration of the contact is detected on the touch screen on the particular object where the second duration is greater than the first duration, perform another operation; wherein the apparatus is configured to present, utilizing the touch screen, a setting interface, where the one or more processors execute the instructions to also cause the apparatus to: detect, utilizing the setting interfa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S Smith
  • Patent number: 10650170
    Abstract: A method for fingerprint unlocking is provided. Fingerprint information for an application to be unlocked is acquired, where the fingerprint information is fingerprint ridges. The fingerprint information that is the fingerprint ridges is compared with preset fingerprint information. A display page of the application to be unlocked is refreshed in parallel with comparing the fingerprint information with the preset fingerprint information. A refreshed display page of the application to be unlocked is displayed, when the fingerprint information matches the preset fingerprint information. When the fingerprint information does not match the preset fingerprint information, the display page of the application to be unlocked is stopped to be refreshed. A terminal is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yibao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10652515
    Abstract: An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus may include a determination unit configured to determine a first spatial position of a portion of an operating tool disposed within a threshold distance of a surface of the determination unit. The first spatial position may be determined relative to the determination unit surface in a depth direction. The apparatus may also include a control unit configured to generate a first signal to display a stereoscopic image to a user at a first display position. The first display position may be disposed within a predetermined distance of the first spatial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Noda
  • Patent number: 10643390
    Abstract: A head mounted display includes an image display section, an acquisition section that acquires information on a real space, and a control section that causes the image display section to form a virtual image containing a virtual object that is an object that does not exist in the real space. The control section analyzes the acquired information on the real space to determine a reference plane that is a flat plane that is present in the real space and satisfies a predetermined condition and changes the virtual object visually recognized by the user based on the reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaka Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 10642483
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a quick screen splitting method, apparatus, and electronic device, a display user interface (UI), and a storage medium, and relate to the electronic field. The method includes: detecting, by a portable electronic device, a knuckle touch gesture acting on a touch-sensitive surface of the portable electronic device, and splitting, by the portable electronic device, a UI into at least two display areas in response to the knuckle touch gesture. The knuckle touch gesture includes a knuckle touch action that occurs when a touch-sensitive surface grid capacitance generated by the knuckle touch action acting on the touch-sensitive surface is within a first preset capacitance range, a quantity of non-zero capacitance grids is less than a preset value, and a Z-axis direction acceleration signal is within the first preset acceleration range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Jie Xu
  • Patent number: 10642484
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section, a display control section, a touch panel, a gesture acceptance section, and a processing section. The display control section allows a screen of the display section to display an icon within which a plurality of regions are provided. The gesture acceptance section determines, upon acceptance of a user's gesture on an icon, on which of the regions within the icon the user's gesture has been performed. When the gesture acceptance section accepts the user's gesture on the icon, the processing section executes processing that is related to a function associated with the icon and corresponds to the region on which the gesture has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Naoto Hanada
  • Patent number: 10642481
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a gesture-based interaction method and interaction apparatus, and a user equipment. The method comprising: acquiring touch information corresponding to a touch event on a touch sensing surface; and in response to that determining the touch event according to the touch information meets at least one set condition, performing an operation corresponding to the touch event, wherein the at least one set condition comprises: a first touch by a first finger on the touch sensing surface comprises a fingertip touch and a finger joint touch that occur in order. Technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application enrich a manner for interacting with an electronic device having a touch sensing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Du, Ying Hu
  • Patent number: 10635294
    Abstract: An electronic device displays an application switching user interface. The device, while displaying the application switching user interface, detects a touch gesture by a contact. In response to the touch gesture: if the touch gesture includes movement by the contact in a first direction and started at a location that corresponds to an application representation corresponding to a respective application, the device closes the respective application; and, if the touch gesture includes movement by the contact in the first direction and started at a location that corresponds a predefined region in the application switching user interface that is outside of the representations of respective applications, the device ceases to display the application switching user interface and displays an application launching user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia
  • Patent number: 10627912
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a process execution unit configured to execute process relating to a user's gesture recognized on a basis of information from a sensor. The process execution unit determines, during a period after the gesture has been recognized, whether or not there is an input of operation information based on a user's operation, and the process execution unit refrains from executing the process relating to the recognized gesture when there is an input of the operation information during the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryu Aoyama, Tomoo Mizukami, Yoji Hirose, Kei Takahashi, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 10628675
    Abstract: Provided are mechanisms and processes for performing skeleton detection and tracking via client-server communication. In one example, a server transmits a skeleton detection message that includes position data for a skeleton representing the structure of an object depicted in a first video frame in a raw video stream at a client device. Based on the initial position data, a processor identifies intervening position data for the skeleton in one or more intervening video frames that are temporally located after the first video frame in the raw video stream. A filtered video stream is then presented by altering the raw video stream based at least in part on the first position data and the intervening position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Fyusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Matteo Munaro, Abhishek Kar, Alexander Jay Bruen Trevor, Krunal Ketan Chande, Radu Bogdan Rusu
  • Patent number: 10620689
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device with lower power consumption is provided. The electronic device includes a display device and a touch sensor. In the case where the touch sensor senses no touch, the touch sensor is brought into a resting state or operated so as to perform a sensing operation at a reduced drive frequency. Also in the case where the touch sensor constantly senses touches and an image on the display device is not changed, the touch sensor is brought into the resting state or operated so as to perform the sensing operation at a reduced drive frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Iwaki, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10623845
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for gesture control are presented. One example includes indicating, based on information from a first audio input signal, a presence of an object in proximity to a microphone, and increasing a volume level in response to the indicating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Dongmei Wang, Fatemeh Saki, Erik Visser, Anne Katrin Konertz, Sharon Kaziunas, Shuhua Zhang, Cheng-Yu Hung
  • Patent number: 10618773
    Abstract: A device for controlling an operation of an elevator by using a monitor comprises: a monitor, which is installed on a wall surface of a cage of an elevator, a surface of a door of the elevator, or a wall surface of a building next to the door of the elevator, displays various buttons including a start button, an emergency button, and floor buttons controlling an operation of the elevator, and includes an embedded speaker; two pin cameras positioned at upper left and right sides of the monitor, respectively; and a controller, which controls operations of the various buttons of the monitor, an operation of the pin camera, and the operation of the elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventor: II Shik Yoon
  • Patent number: 10620819
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a sensor to sense a touch on the display, a communicator, a storage configured to store matching information on which the display apparatus and at least one input source each match different touch types and a processor configured to, if it is identified that a touch type of the touch sensed by the sensor corresponds to a specific external input source based on the stored matching information, control the communicator to transmit information corresponding to the sensed touch to the specific external input source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hye-won Lee, Du-seong Kang, Sung-won Cho
  • Patent number: 10606470
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed. In the method, a movement of an object on or near the touch screen display is detected. In response to detecting the movement, an electronic document displayed on the touch screen display is translated in a first direction. If an edge of the electronic document is reached while translating the electronic document in the first direction while the object is still detected on or near the touch screen display, an area beyond the edge of the document is displayed. After the object is no longer detected on or near the touch screen display, the document is translated in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of the document is no longer displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Apple, Inc.
    Inventor: Bas Ording
  • Patent number: 10606396
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods are provided at an apparatus including at least one non-transitory memory storing a plurality of applications, a touch screen, and one or more processors in communication with the at least one non-transitory memory and the touch screen. The methods include various operations that are performed based on a contact or gesture duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: P4TENTS1, LLC
    Inventor: Michael S Smith
  • Patent number: 10599266
    Abstract: An inspection device for a touch panel inspects the touch panel which is provided in a display unit. The inspection device is equipped with an operation position display control unit configured to display on the display unit an operation position that is touched by a user, a detection unit configured to detect a detection position depending on a touch operation made by the user with respect to the touch panel, and a positional relationship display control unit configured to display on the display unit positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship between the operation position and the detection position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Uchiyama, Junpei Maruyama, Akimasa Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10599920
    Abstract: An imaging system includes one or more cameras, a display and processing system. The system can include a processor for receiving image data sets to generate combined images of the field of view and a magnified stabilized portion. Various embodiments emulate a digital magnifier or digital mirror applications. In some implementations, the processor can employ the captured images to detect one or more objects of interest (e.g., one or more objects moving within the field of view), in particular the object being magnified, the users' hand and fingers, along with gestures and held tools to affect the acquisition, tracking and magnification of the active work area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Mojaver
  • Patent number: 10592016
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a base member having a touch area defined inside a first closed-shape, the first closed-shape being a first imaginary line, and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the touch area and defined outside the first closed-shape, and a touch sensor including a plurality of patterns disposed in the touch area to sense a touch from outside and a driving line disposed in the peripheral area and connected to a pattern disposed adjacent to the first closed-shape. The touch area includes a first area defined inside a second closed-shape being a second imaginary line defined in the touch area, and a second area defined outside the second closed-shape and surrounded by the first closed-shape, and an edge pattern disposed in the second area having an area substantially equal to or greater than approximately one-half of an area of a center pattern disposed in the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeongkyu Jeon, Hyungchul Kim, Jungmok Park, Heewoong Park