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US 8,947,323 B1Granted
Content display methods
OwnerHayes Solos Raffle, Adrian Wong +1inventors
InventorsHayes Solos Raffle, Adrian Wong, Ryan Geiss
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Abstract
Methods and systems involving a graphic display in a head mounted display (HMD) are disclosed herein. An exemplary system may be configured to: (1) at a computing system associated with a head-mountable display, receive head-movement data indicative of head movement; (2) use one or more context signals to determine a first activity associated with the head-mountable device; (3) determine a head-movement interpretation scheme corresponding to the first activity; (4) apply the determined head-movement interpretation scheme to determine input data corresponding to the received head-movement data; and (5) provide the determined input data for at least one function of the head-mountable display.
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A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- at a computing system associated with a head-mountable display, receiving head-movement data indicative of head movement;
- determining that at least a portion of the head-movement data corresponds to non-UI-targeted head movements, wherein one or more sensitivity parameters are used to distinguish between UI-targeted head movements and the non-UI-targeted head movements;
- using (1) one or more context signals and (2) at least the portion of the head-movement data corresponding to the non-UI-targeted head movements to determine a first activity associated with the head-mountable display;
- determining a head-movement interpretation scheme corresponding to the first activity, wherein determining the head-movement interpretation scheme comprises determining a first value for at least one sensitivity parameter used to distinguish between the UI-targeted head movements and the non-UI-targeted head movements;
- applying the determined head-movement interpretation scheme to determine the received head-movement data corresponds to one or more UI commands;
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- providing the one or more UI commands for at least one function of the head-mountable display;
- wherein the first value for the at least one sensitivity parameter maps a given amount of received head-movement data to the non-UI-targeted head movements, and wherein determining the head-movement interpretation scheme based on the first activity comprises:
- adjusting the first value to a different value for the at least one sensitivity parameter corresponding to the first activity;
- based on the different value, modifying the given amount of head-movement data mapped to the non-UI-targeted head movements;
- and
- determining a second activity using the modified head-movement data mapped to the non-UI-targeted head movements.
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A system, comprising:
- a head-mountable display, wherein the system is configured for:
- receiving head-movement data from the head-mountable display indicative of head movement;
- determining that at least a portion of the head-movement data corresponds to non-UI-targeted head movements, wherein one or more sensitivity parameters are used to distinguish between UI-targeted head movements and the non-UI-targeted head movements;
- using (1) one or more context signals and (2) at least the portion of the head-movement data corresponding to the non-UI-targeted head movements to determine a first activity associated with the head-mountable display;
- determining a head-movement interpretation scheme corresponding to the first activity, wherein determining the head-movement interpretation scheme comprises determining a first value for at least one sensitivity parameter used to distinguish between the UI-targeted head movements and the non-UI-targeted head movements;
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- applying the determined head-movement interpretation scheme to determine the received head-movement data corresponds to one or more UI commands;
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- providing the one or more UI commands for at least one function of the head-mountable display;
- wherein the first value for the at least one sensitivity parameter maps a given amount of received head-movement data to the non-UI-targeted head movements, and wherein determining the head-movement interpretation scheme based on the first activity comprises:
- adjusting the first value to a different value for the at least one sensitivity parameter corresponding to the first activity;
- and
- based on the different value, modifying the given amount of head-movement data mapped to the non-UI-targeted head movements;
- and
- determining a second activity using the modified head-movement data mapped to the non-UI-targeted head movements.
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A wearable-computing system, comprising:
- a processor;
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- a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store at least program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the wearable-computing system to carry out functions comprising:
- receiving head-movement data indicative of head movement;
- determining that at least a portion of the head-movement data corresponds to non-UI-targeted head movements, wherein one or more sensitivity parameters are used to distinguish between UI-targeted head movements and the non-UI-targeted head movements, and wherein:
- determining the head-movement interpretation scheme comprises determining a first value for at least one sensitivity parameter used to distinguish between UI-targeted head movements and the non-UI-targeted head movements;
- using (1) one or more context signals and (2) at least the portion of the head-movement data corresponding to the non-UI-targeted head movements as a basis for determining a first activity that is associated with the wearable-computing system;
- determining a head-movement interpretation scheme corresponding to the first activity;
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- applying the determined head-movement interpretation scheme to determine the received head-movement data corresponds to one or more UI commands;
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- communicating the one or more UI commands;
- wherein the first value for the at least one sensitivity parameter maps a given amount of received head-movement data to the non-UI-targeted head movements, and wherein determining the head-movement interpretation scheme based on the first activity comprises:
- adjust the first value to a different value for the at least one sensitivity parameter corresponding to the first activity;
- and
- based on the different value, modify the given amount of head-movement data mapped to the non-UI-targeted head movements;
- and
- determining a second activity using the modified head-movement data mapped to the non-UI-targeted head movements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.