129results about "Input/output for user-computer interaction" patented technology

A portable assistive listening system for enhancing sound for hearing impaired individuals includes a fully functional hearing aid and a separate handheld digital signal processing (DSP) device. The focus of the present invention is directed to the handheld DSP device. The DSP device includes a programmable digital signal processor, a UWB transceiver for communicating with the hearing aid and/or other wireless audio sources, an LCD display, and a user input device (keypad). The handheld device is user programmable to apply different processing algorithms for processing sound signals received from the hearing aid or other audio source. The handheld device is capable of receiving audio signals from multiple sources, and gives the user control over selection of incoming sources and selective processing of sound. In the context of being user programmable, the digital signal processing device includes a software platform that provides for the ability of the user to select or “plug-in” desired processing algorithms for application to selected incoming audio channels and a communication port for the user to connect to a PC or other device to download preferred processing algorithms. The communication port provides the user with the ability to retrieve desirable processing algorithms from a database of available algorithms and download those algorithms directly into the device for use.

A flexible, resistive touch screen includes a transparent, flexible substrate; a first conductive layer located on the flexible substrate; a flexible transparent cover sheet having integral compressible spacer dots; and a second conductive layer located on the flexible transparent cover sheet, the peaks of the integral compressible spacer dots extending through the second conductive layer, whereby, when a force is applied to the touch screen at the location of one of the compressible spacer dots, the compressible spacer dot is compressed to allow electrical contact between the first and second conductive layers.

A method for controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes displaying, via a display, a plurality of items on a touch screen of the mobile terminal; receiving, via a controller on the mobile terminal, a first touching signal indicating a first item of the plurality of items has been touched and held for a predetermined amount of time; displaying, via the display, a first preview screen corresponding to the selected first item when the first item has been touched and held for the predetermined amount of time; receiving, via the controller, a second touching signal indicating a flicking operation has been performed on the touch screen while the first touching signal is still being received; and displaying, via the display, a second preview screen of a next-priority item among the plurality of item instead of the first preview screen based on the received first and second touching signals.

An online communications network connects consumers with service providers from an unlimited number of different business sectors. The service providers include event organizers. The network allows consumers and event participants to maintain a profile of biographical data on the system. The single profile is available to either purchase services or register for events in a single electronic marketplace. A computerized method of arranging information about the service providers includes assigning codes, such as SIC and NAICS codes, to categories of services and arranging individual service providers, including event organizers, within their respectively assigned categories. Consumers and service providers communicate over the website to contract for work, rate each other's performance of the contract, provide referrals for other business. In the events section, event participants and event organizers share registration information. The system includes a social networking component for better relationships between service providers and their customers.

The invention discloses an information processing method and an electronic device. Whether movement parameters of the electronic device meet preset conditions or not is obtained through a sensor, and therefore the result showing whether the electronic device is about to collide with barriers or not or the result showing whether the electronic device is doing dangerous actions or not is obtained. If the electronic device is about to collide with the barriers or the electronic device is doing dangerous actions, a display unit is controlled to be switched to a second display state from a first display state, wherein the second display state is different from the first display state, and therefore the technical effects of prompting a user that dangers are about to happen and lowering the accident occurrence probability can be achieved.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for neuro-robotic tracking point selection are disclosed. A described example method to control a robot arm includes presenting one or more potential trackable features of a target object, emphasizing at least one of the potential trackable features, determining a selection of one of the emphasized features as a tracking point by monitoring a first mental response to emphasizing the feature, and effectuating an end goal via a robot by tracking the selected feature and effectuating a position based on the selected feature.

A computer-implemented method of communicating via interaction with a user-interface based on a person's gaze and gestures, comprising: computing an estimate of the person's gaze comprising computing a point-of-regard on a display through which the person observes a scene in front of him; by means of a scene camera, capturing a first image of a scene in front of the person's head (and at least partially visible on the display) and computing the location of an object coinciding with the person's gaze; by means of the scene camera, capturing at least one further image of the scene in front of the person's head, and monitoring whether the gaze dwells on the recognised object; and while gaze dwells on the recognised object: firstly, displaying a user interface element, with a spatial expanse, on the display face in a region adjacent to the point-of-regard; and secondly, during movement of the display, awaiting and detecting the event that the point-of-regard coincides with the spatial expanse of the displayed user interface element. The event may be processed by communicating a message.

An input apparatus allowing the improved operability of data entry without noticeable volume changes of a portable device itself and further allowing easy entry of a positional coordinate, a curve, and the like is disclosed. The input apparatus is detachably coupled to the portable device and is provided with a coordinate information generator for generating coordinate information depending on a movement on a flat surface to control a position of a cursor on a display of the portable device. Therefore, the input apparatus is removed from the portable device and the singly input apparatus can output coordinate information to the portable device by sliding it on a desk. The input apparatus preferably incorporates a battery for supplying power to the portable device when the input apparatus is coupled to the portable device.

The invention relates to a virtual reality man-machine interaction children education experience system based on a mobile terminal. The virtual reality man-machine interaction children education experience system based on the mobile terminal comprises a mobile equipment terminal, large screen display equipment, somatosensory interaction equipment and a background server; the mobile equipment terminal is provided with a pattern recognition and data recognition module and a data interaction client, the pattern recognition and data recognition module and the data interaction client are connected with the background server through a network, the background server is connected with the somatosensory interaction equipment, and the somatosensory interaction equipment and the data interaction client are connected with the large screen display equipment. Compared with the prior art, the virtual reality man-machine interaction children education experience system based on the mobile terminal can be presented in a way of dynamic sound, images and interaction, teenagers can understand scientific knowledge more vividly, three-dimensionally and thoroughly, and the operational ability of children is enhanced.

The invention discloses an electroencephalogram signal feature extraction method combining with a public space mode algorithm and an EMD. Firstly, electroencephalogram signals of a subject are selected as a training set and a testing set, and the signals of the single subject in two channels C3 and C4 are pre-processed; then, experience mode decomposition is conducted on the prepressed EEG signals to obtain a series of intrinsic mode functions IMFi, and energy spectrum diagrams of all the intrinsic mode functions are drawn; then, previous three order IMF components of the channels C3 and C4 undergoing a single pass test are merged to form a N * T matrix Xi, wherein N represents IMF number, T represents the number of sampling points undergoing one test, the whole experiment process includes G groups of tests, and G groups of vector matrixes are obtained and are divided into G1 groups of test vector matrixes and G2 groups of training vector matrixes which are respectively subjected to public space mode decomposition. CSP filtering is conducted on the intrinsic mode functions decomposed by utilizing the three channels and the EMD, frequency domain information of the EMD is added on the basis of the CSP, and the problem that the CSP is lack of the frequency domain information is solved.

An image processing apparatus having a slideshow function includes: a storage unit that stores files corresponding to a plurality of images; a display unit that displays the plurality of images; a slideshow performing unit that reads the files from the storage unit and sequentially displays the plurality of images on the display unit in a slideshow function; a user input unit that receives input manipulation of a user and generating a signal; and an image processor that performs image processing on the files corresponding to images selected from the plurality of images displayed on the display unit based on the signal of the user input unit after the slideshow performing unit completes the slideshow function.

The invention discloses a method and a device used for outputting information. One specific implementation way of the above method comprises the following steps that: obtaining a target image which contains a gesture; extracting the feature points of the above gesture; according to the extracted feature points and a pre-established gesture identification model, determining the gesture type of theabove gesture, wherein the above gesture identification model is used for representing a corresponding relationship between the feature points and the gesture type; and responding when a determining result shows that a preset corresponding relationship list of the gesture type and the control command comprises the gesture type of the above gesture, determining and outputting a control command corresponding to the gesture type of the above gesture. By use of the implementation way, the sense of participation of people is enhanced, and a human-computer interaction way is enriched.

An embodiment of the invention discloses an application wake method and a mobile terminal and aims to wake an application to acquire user's voice commands. The method includes allowing the mobile terminal to monitor the own posture; when the posture of the mobile terminal changes, allowing the mobile terminal to acquire the own moving data; allowing the mobile terminal to judge whether the mobile terminal stops moving basically or not according to the moving data; if yes, allowing the mobile terminal to judge whether the mobile terminal is adjacent to the faces or not; if yes, starting the application to acquire the user's voice commands. The embodiment of the invention further discloses the mobile terminal which is capable of accurately waking the application to acquire user's voice commands.

Provided is a self-service virtual store system. The self-service virtual store includes a server comprising a memory, a database stored in the memory, and a processor, wherein the database contains data for a 3D virtual store front, wherein the data for the 3D virtual store front comprises data including a plurality of visually perceptible elements, which visually perceptible elements correspond to the 3D virtual store front, particular items in the 3D virtual store front, and avatars. The self-service virtual store includes a computer coupled to the server wherein a user interfaces with the server through the computer. The server is programmed to provide to users a virtual shopping experience in a virtual environment, wherein users utilize avatars to move within the virtual environment and perform shopping function.

The invention discloses a real-time gesture recognition method which comprises the steps of (1) decomposing an obtained gesture video into image sequences sorted in a chronological order and preprocessing obtained images and then carrying out hand-region segmentation, (2) extracting a hand shape feature of a hand region in each image and using an SVM support vector machine to identify the hand shape feature as a corresponding gesture value, (3) combining the gesture value of each image and a direction feature of a motion trajectory obtained by an iterating LK pyramid optical flow algorithm asa feature vector of each dynamic gesture image, (4) carrying out loop execution of steps (2) and (3) with a loop end condition that all images of a current video are processed so as to obtain a complete set of feature vector sequences, (5) creating a gesture template library, (6) carrying out optimization DTW match on the obtained feature vector sequences and all templates in a template library, calculating the degree of distortion of the match, wherein recognition is failed if the degree of distortion is larger than a distortion threshold, and a recognition result is outputted if the degree of distortion is smaller than the distortion threshold.

The invention provides a voice command processing method and a corresponding electronic device. The voice command processing method is applied to the electronic device, and an interface including display objects corresponding to operations are displayed on the display screen of the electronic device. The voice command processing method comprises the steps of: receiving a first input implemented by a user in a first manner; determining a range in the interface according to the first input, wherein the range relates to one or more display objects; providing the range to the user; processing each related display object in the range, and thus determining a keyword for indicating each display object, wherein the keywords of the display objects are different from one another; providing the keywords to the user; using the keywords as matching words for implementing voice matching, so that when inputting the keywords through voice, the user executes the corresponding operation of the display object corresponding to the keword. According to the voice command processing method and the electronic device, the user can input a voice command conveniently and rapidly.

A gaming system and method for integrating tactile feedback into a virtual reality environment as viewed by a virtual reality viewer is disclosed. A physical object, which may be a physical button panel, such as a button panel printed on paper, dice, playing cards, coins or chips, a floor or any other tangible object, has a view thereof incorporated into the virtual reality environment. When the user touches the physical object, the touch gesture is captured and processed by the system to interpret the touch gesture as an input. The physical object may include a printed, projected or touch screen panel, a hand-held object, a portion of a gaming machine cabinet, a table tops, a floor and the like.

A method of performing a hands-free selection of an object on a display includes displaying various objects within a screen view on a display, and moving a pointer-timer, in response to movements of the headset computer, to a selectable object within the screen view. The method further includes selecting the selectable object if the pointer-timer overlaps the selectable object for a predetermined amount of time. The method may further include transitioning the pointer-timer from a first state to a second state over a predetermined period of time. The pointer-timer may include a collection of elements that sequentially transitions from the first state to the second state, such that the collection of elements gradually changes from all being in the first state to all being in the second state.

A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for dynamically controlling a multi-modal camera system to take advantage of the benefits of sensing gestures with a 2D camera, while overcoming the challenges associated with 2D cameras for performing gesture detection. In certain embodiments, the multi-modal camera system includes an RGB camera and a depth camera, thus providing both a 2D and a 3D capture mode.

The invention provides an intelligent interaction method and apparatus. The intelligent interaction method comprises the steps of obtaining a user hand action image, wherein the user hand action image is obtained after a user hand action is shot; determining an operation type corresponding to the user hand action according to the user hand action image; and making a response to the user hand action according to the operation type. According to the method, natural and efficient man-machine interaction can be realized.