62 results about "Finger tapping" patented technology

System and method for view navigation and magnification of the display of hand-held devices in response to the orientation changes along only two axes of rotation as measured by sensors inside the devices. The view navigation system is engaged and controlled by a single hand which simultaneously presses two ergonomically designed switches on both sides of the hand-held device. In other embodiments, the system engaged into the view navigation mode in response to an operator command in the form of a finger tap, or a voice command, or predefined user gestures. The response curve of the view navigation to sensed changes in orientation is dynamically changing to allow coarse and fine navigation of the view. Various methods are described to terminate the view navigation mode and fix the display at the desired view. Miniature sensors like accelerometers, tilt sensors, or magneto-resistive direction sensors sense the orientation changes. The system can be added to an existing hand-held device via an application interface of the device.

Provided are a wrist-worn input apparatus and method. The apparatus and method can segment meaningful hand gestures using a vibration sound generated by a finger tapping and can issue commands corresponding to the recognized hand gestures, enabling the user to easily input commands to electronic devices.

Embodiments of the invention disclose a scanner with a touch-sensitive screen that supports finger tapping gestures for selecting text. A single tap gesture causes a portion of a character string to be selected. A double tap gesture causes the entire character string to be selected. A tap and hold gesture causes the scanner to enter a cursor mode wherein the placement of a cursor relative to the characters in the character string can be adjusted. In text selection mode, a finger can be used to move the cursor from a cursor start position to a cursor end position to select text therebetween.

Systems, articles, and methods for wearable human-electronics interfaces are described. A wearable human-electronics interface device includes a band that in use is worn on an appendage (e.g., a wrist, arm, finger, or thumb) of a user. The band carries multiple sensors that are responsive to vibrations. The sensors are physically spaced apart from one another on or within the band. The band also carries an on-board processor. The sensors detect vibrations at the appendage of the user when the user performs different finger tapping gestures (i.e., tapping gestures involving different individual fingers or different combinations of fingers) and provide corresponding vibration signals to the processor. The processor classifies the finger tapping gesture(s) based on the vibration signals and an on-board transmitter sends a corresponding signal to control, operate, or interact with a receiving electronic device. The sensors include inertial sensors, digital MEMS microphones, or a combination thereof.

Methods and systems are provided for use of microphones with VSensors for wearable devices. VSensors may be used to detect and/or capture vibrations in bones. The captured bone vibrations may then be used to improve audio related operations. For example, bone vibrations may correspond to user audio input (e.g., speech), and as such the captured bone vibrations may be used in enhancing noise reduction functions in the wearable devices, by enabling distinguishing user audio input, as captured by microphone(s), from ambient noise. This may obviate the need to move the wearable device closer to the user's mouth (such that embedded microphones would be closer). The captured bone vibrations may also be analyzed to determine if they correspond to user control input (e.g., by means of finger tapping), such as by comparing them against predefined patterns.

An in-wall, touch-actuated electronic control device makes use of gesture motions. A touch sensor permits a user to input control commands through the use of one or more one- or two-dimensional gestures such as one- or two-fingered tapping; swiping; tracing; pinching; and zooming, allowing for a significant increase in the potential number of network endpoints that can be controlled from, and also in the number of control signals that can be generated by, a single touch-control device. The touch-control device may include both a direct load controller such as a light switch or dimmer as well as a network connection to allow control of networked devices, either on a local network (for example a home WiFi network) or, for example, Web applications hosted on a remote server.

The motor function estimating system 1000 has a memory unit 1260, a data processing unit 1220 (analyzing section), and a display unit 1400. The memory unit 1260 memorizes waveform data about the time change of fingers tapping motion that is obtained by a motion sensor attached to a subject person who does the fingers tapping motion that is repetition of the opening and closing motion of two fingers of one hand. The data processing unit 1220 analyzes the waveform data in the memory unit 1260. The display unit 1400 displays an analysis result. The data processing unit 1220 creates motion waveform based on waveform data, and plural characteristics based on the motion waveform. The data processing unit 1220 creates a motion disorder synthesis value that represents degree of motion disorder of the subject person by revising each of the plural characteristics based on characteristics of every age and synthesizing them.

A finger puppet toy sits comfortably on a finger of a child, and generates a sound when the finger is tapped against a hard object, such as a desk or a table-top. The sound may be a voice, an animal sound, an animal voice sound, a musical note, or any of the above sounds in the key of a musical note. The head of the puppet toy articulates about a shaft when the child articulates the finger, and the head may thus appear to move while the sound is generated. Multiple toys worn on one or more hands and having different musical notes may be tapped in sequence to play a melody.

Aspects of the present disclosure relates to user interface systems and methods for use in head-worn computing systems. In a head-worn computer, an inertial measurement unit (“IMU”) is in communication with a processor. The processor is adapted to identify a user tap control action, the user tap control action being a finger tap on a frame of the head-worn computer, wherein the finger tap is measured by the IMU and further adapted to control an aspect of a software application operating on the head-worn computer.

The present invention discloses a method for triggering screen capturing by tapping a screen with a finger joint. The method comprises: step 1: when a picture needed to be captured appears on a screen of an intelligent terminal, a user tapping any same area of a touch screen twice with a single finger joint in a certain period of time; step 2: when the first tap occurs, determining whether an acceleration sensor senses an event with an acceleration vector change value exceeding a preset value, and whether the touch screen senses a valid touch event at the same period; step 3: starting a timer for timing; step 4: when the second tap occurs, determining whether an event with the acceleration vector change value exceeding the preset value exists, and whether a valid touch event occurs at the same period; step 5: determining whether the effective distance between locations of early and later touch operations in the screen is smaller than a preset value; and step 6: performing screen capturing. The method disclosed by the present invention implements automatic screen capturing by determining the size and the number of times of the acceleration vector changes caused by finger tapping on the screen, and the occurrence number and the location of a corresponding tapping and touching event, so that a picture or text information in which the user is interested can be easily and conveniently captured.

The invention integrates hardware and software for sensing, communications, data storage and control into a protection module that is sufficiently small and inexpensive to be attached directly to individual objects, such as musical instruments, and the inventory of stores and museums. Sensors monitor environmental factors, such as temperature and humidity, and accelerometers alert owners to unwanted motion, such as theft or misuse. Sensed data is stored locally and transmitted wirelessly to nonproprietary data receivers, such as smart phones or tablets that generate alerts. In some embodiments the data is forwarded to cloud servers for storage and analysis. Bluetooth communication between the attached module and the data receiver allows large spaces, such as stores and showrooms containing many attached modules to be protected. In some embodiments accelerometers enable finger-tap-controlled recording of musical performance and tuning of the instrument relative to tonal frequencies stored in the module.

In a bioinstrument system S of the present invention, a processor unit 121 in a bioinstrument device 108 obtains information indicative of displacement of two fingers in deformed state from distance between the two fingers; and calculates a finger-tapping force by using the obtained information and a predetermined fingertips' stiffness function retrieved from a storage unit 122. This provides a method for inspecting for neurological disorders in consideration of the finger-tapping force.

A system and method for assessing patient movement for Parkinson's disease includes capturing a video of a subject performing a finger tapping sequence comprising a predetermined number of open and close periods. According to an exemplary embodiment, a system and method includes extracting a region of interest for each frame of the video and generating a projection of the region of interest for each frame of the video using perpendicular vector projections in a direction or plurality of directions.

A system based on a standard resistive touch screen that is capable of detecting double point or finger taps or gestures, and districting them from single point or finger taps or gestures. The system uses either a standard analog touch controller capable of four measurement types or a modified analog touch controller capable of six or more measurement types, and the fixed known resistance ratio of the touch film layers, to calculate an approximation of the location of up to two separate touch points on the screen. A collection of the location samples is used to detect different single and double finger gestures.

The invention discloses a method for recognizing key positions on a keyboard of a touch screen, a method for feeding back input values on the keyboard of the touch screen and a method for clicking input on the touch screen. The method for recognizing the key positions on the keyboard of the touch screen comprises the following steps that three driving motors are arranged for the touch screen to drive three vibrators different in polarization direction respectively; each time before input, recognizing vibrations different in direction are defined for all keys; pressed keys vibrate in the defined recognizing vibration directions without generation of input when the fingers of a user slide on all the keys, and the user knows the pressed keys by perceiving the recognizing vibrations; clicking actions of the fingers are confirmed with the combination of pressure perception when each key is clicked by the corresponding finger of the user, and thus input is generated.