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US 10,627,914 B2Granted
User interface control of responsive devices
AssigneePison Technology, Inc.
InventorsDexter W. Ang, David O Cipoletta, Samuel J. Karnes, Michael P. Kowalczyk, Salil H. Patel, Steven D. Trambert
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Abstract
Among other things, a user interface device has a sensor configured to detect, at a wrist of a human, nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated with an intended contraction of a muscle to cause a rapid motion of a finger. An output provides information representative of the nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated with the intended contraction of the muscle to an interpreter of the information.
Claims12
An apparatus comprising
- a wrist worn user interface device having
- a sensor configured to detect, at a top surface of a wrist of a human, nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated with intended contractions and extensions of a muscle to cause a particular single gesture, the particular single gesture comprising all of:
- (a) repeated flicks up of only an index finger of the hand attached to the wrist, (b) each of the repeated flicks up of the particular single gesture having an extent less than 5 cm and a duration less than one-half second, and (c) each of the repeated flicks up of the particular single gesture comprising an intended contraction and extension of only the index finger,
- an output configured to provide to an interpreter raw data representative of the nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated with the intended contractions and extensions of the muscle, and
- an interpreter configured to receive and interpret the raw data representative of the nerve or other tissue electrical signals and provide an indication of the particular single gesture comprising all of (a) through (c), the indication being provided to a responsive device not located on the hand attached to the wrist to cause the responsive device to treat the indication of the particular single gesture as an invocation of a user interface control of a display.
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An apparatus comprising
- a wrist-worn user interface device having
- a sensor configured to detect, at a top surface of a wrist of a human hand, nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated (a) with an activation of a muscle intended to cause a first motion of the hand, the first motion of the hand comprising a rotation of a palm relative to an elbow, and (b) with an activation of a muscle intended to cause, at a time during or at the end of the first motion, a stationary hold of the hand,
- an output configured to provide to an interpreter information representative of the nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated with the activations intended to cause the first motion and the stationary hold, and
- an interpreter configured to receive and interpret the information representative of the nerve or other tissue electrical signals and to provide, based on the information representative of the nerve or other tissue electrical signals, (a) a first indication of the activation intended to cause the first motion comprising the rotation of the palm relative to the elbow, and (b) a second indication of the activation of the motion intended to cause the stationary hold, the first indication configured to cause an action to be performed on a display of a responsive device not mounted on the hand, the action comprising rotating, in three-dimensional space, a displayed graphical element comprising a three-dimensional representation of an object, the second indication being configured to cause the responsive device to continue the rotating to be performed on the display of the responsive device during at least a part of the stationary hold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.