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US 10,254,828 B2Granted
Detection of improper viewing posture
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLin Fu, Di Hu, Shi Kun Li, Ka Lin, Wei Zuo
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide efficient and automatic systems and methods for regulating the viewing posture of a user. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to regulate the viewing posture of both juveniles and adults, by providing real-time data analysis of a viewing distance and viewing angle of a device, and generating feedback to a user related to their current viewing posture, while also providing increased supervision of the viewing posture of juvenile device users.
Claims6
A method for regulating viewing posture, the method comprising:
- identifying, by a front-facing camera, a single eye of a user of a device, based on a set of attributes of the single eye;
- calculating, by one or more processors, a distance between the single eye of the user of the device and a screen of the device;
- determining, by the one or more processors, the distance between the single eye of the user of the device and the screen of the device, based on the distance between the front-facing camera and the single eye of the user of the device and the distance between the front-facing camera and a center of the device;
- determining, by the one or more processors, whether the distance between the single eye of the user of the device and the screen of the device is below a threshold, wherein the threshold is a predetermined distance, based on a type of the device in use;
- and
- responsive to determining that the distance between the single eye of the user of the device and the screen of the device is below the threshold, sending, by the one or more processors, feedback to the user of the device;
- responsive to determining that the user is positioned close to the screen of the device based on determining that the distance between the single eye of the user of the device and the screen of the device is below the threshold, disabling, by the one or more processors, a plurality of applications in use, as contained within the screen of the device, while simultaneously sending the feedback to the user of the device, wherein the feedback is a respective message associated with detecting an improper viewing posture-type;
- detecting, by the one or more processors, the improper viewing posture-type, wherein the improper viewing posture-type comprises:
- the user positioned is close to the screen of the device based on the distance between the single eye of the user of the device and the screen of the device and the orientation of the user relative to the screen of the device;
- and
- responsive to determining that the user of the device has adjusted the improper viewing posture-type and provided input to the device dismissing the respective message, enabling, by the one or more processors, the plurality of applications for use on the device.
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