Controlling a Device Setting Using Head Pose
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorGregory Lutter
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Abstract
A head-mounted device may use head pose changes for user input. In particular, a display in the head-mounted device may display a slider with an indicator. The slider may be a visual representation of a scalar quantity of a device setting such as volume or brightness. Based on head pose changes, the scalar quantity of the device setting and the position of the indicator on the slider may be updated. The direction of a head movement may correspond to the direction of movement of the indicator in the slider. The scalar quantity of a device setting may only be updated when gaze input from a user targets the slider. The slider may be displayed in response to gaze input targeting an icon associated with the slider.
Claims24
An electronic device comprising:
- one or more sensors;
- one or more displays;
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the instructions for:
- displaying, using the one or more displays, a user interface element comprising a visual representation of a scalar quantity of a device setting;
- obtaining, via a first subset of the one or more sensors, head pose information;
- updating the scalar quantity of the device setting based on the head pose information;
- and
- updating the visual representation of the scalar quantity based on the updated scalar quantity.
A method of operating an electronic device that comprises one or more displays, the method comprising:
- displaying, using the one or more displays, a user interface element comprising a visual representation of a scalar quantity of a device setting;
- obtaining, via a first subset of the one or more sensors, head pose information;
- updating the scalar quantity of the device setting based on the head pose information;
- and
- updating the visual representation of the scalar quantity based on the updated scalar quantity.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured to be executed by one or more processors of an electronic device that comprises one or more displays, the one or more programs including instructions for:
- displaying, using the one or more displays, a user interface element comprising a visual representation of a scalar quantity of a device setting;
- obtaining, via a first subset of the one or more sensors, head pose information;
- updating the scalar quantity of the device setting based on the head pose information;
- and
- updating the visual representation of the scalar quantity based on the updated scalar quantity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.