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US 7,454,309 B2Granted
Foot activated user interface
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRichard Anthony Lawrence, David Neil Slatter, Glenn Peter Hall
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Abstract
A wearable computing apparatus includes a processor; a device for presenting information from the processor to a user, and a device for providing user input to the processor in response to the information presented to the user. The device is adapted to be activated wholly or partly by a foot of the user.
Claims17
Wearable computing apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- a device for presenting information from the processor to a user;
- and
- a device for providing user input to the processor in response to the information presented to the user, wherein the user input device is adapted to be activated wholly or partly by a foot of the user,
- wherein the user input device comprises a foot mounted position sensor, the foot mounted position sensor comprising a light source and a sensor adapted to measure position from light from the light source reflected by a surface adjacent to the foot mounted position sensor.
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Computing apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- a display for presenting information from the processor to a user;
- and
- a user input device comprising a foot mounted position and orientation sensor,
- wherein translation of the foot mounted position and orientation sensor causes translation of a selection device across the display and rotation of the foot mounted position and orientation sensor causes a predetermined operation to be carried out by the processor in respect of information indicated by the selection device, and
- wherein the foot mounted position and orientation sensor comprises a light source and a sensor adapted to measure position from light from the light source reflected by a surface adjacent to the foot mounted position sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.