US 11,445,107 B2Granted

Supervised setup for control device with imager

AssigneeQorvo US, Inc.

InventorsJulien Colafrancesco, Simon Tchedikian, Simon Guillot, Louis Xiao Wang

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Abstract

Systems and methods associated with determining a pointing target of pointing device are disclosed. One embodiment disclosed herein is a method conducted with a control device having a pointing direction and an onboard imager. The field of view of the onboard imager includes the pointing direction. The method includes capturing a reference image, determining a characteristic quantity based on the reference image, generating a feedback message based on the characteristic quantity, and predicating a setup phase termination for the control device on the characteristic quantity.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a control device, wherein the control device has a shape which defines a pointing direction of the control device;
an onboard imager located on the control device, wherein the onboard imager has a field of view which includes the pointing direction;
and
one or more computer readable media storing instructions to:
receive a reference image indicative of a zone of interest in a physical location;
determine a characteristic quantity based on the reference image, the characteristic quantity being representative of distinctiveness of a signature of the zone of interest;
generate a feedback message based on the characteristic quantity;
and
predicate a setup phase termination for the control device on the characteristic quantity;
wherein the system further comprises one of the following features (i) to (iii):
(i) the feedback message regards at least one additional reference image to be captured to improve the characteristic quantity, and the feedback message includes instructions on how to capture the at least one additional reference image;
(ii) the determining of the characteristic quantity includes determining that the reference image is of insufficient quality, and the feedback message includes instructions to recapture the reference image;
or
(iii) the one or more computer readable media further storing instructions to disable a capture interface on the control device based on the characteristic quantity, wherein the determining of the characteristic quantity based on the reference image is conducted in real time.

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A computer-implemented method, conducted with a control device having:

(i) a shape which defines a pointing direction of the control device;
and (ii) an on board imager having a field of view which includes the pointing direction, comprising:
capturing a reference image indicative of a zone of interest in a physical location;
determining a characteristic quantity based on the reference image, the characteristic quantity being representative of distinctiveness of a signature of the zone of interest;
generating a feedback message based on the characteristic quantity;
and
predicating a setup phase termination for the control device on the characteristic quantity;
wherein the method further comprises one of the following features (i) or (ii):
(i) the step of determining the characteristic quantity includes determining that the reference image is of insufficient quality, and the feedback message includes instructions to recapture the reference image;
or
(ii) the method further comprises disabling a capture interface on the control device based on the characteristic quantity, wherein the step of determining the characteristic quantity based on the reference image is conducted in real time.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/987,776Filed 7 Aug 2020 · us provisional application
Priority: 8 Aug 2019
Published: US 2021/0044741 A111 Feb 2021
Granted: 13 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G08C 23/04
Non-electrical signal transmission systems, e.g. optical systems: using light waves, e.g. infrared
H04N 23/64
Control of cameras or camera modules: computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality,…
G06F 3/033
Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form: pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user ,…
G06F 3/0487
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled…

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Application62/884,278Us provisional application · filed 8 Aug 2019
US 2021/0044741 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Feb 2021
US 11,445,107 B2This patent

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