77 results about "Hand manipulation" patented technology

When a vehicle navigation system is manipulated by taking pictures of a user hand motion and gesture with a camera, as the number of apparatuses and operational objects increases, the associated hand shapes and hand motions increase, thus causing a complex manipulation for a user. Furthermore, in detecting a hand with the camera, when the image of a face having color tone information similar to that of a hand appears in an image taken with a camera, or outside light rays such as sun rays or illumination rays vary, detection accuracy is reduced. To overcome such problems, a manipulation input device is provided that includes a limited hand manipulation determination unit and a menu representation unit, whereby a simple manipulation can be achieved and manipulation can accurately be determined. In addition, detection accuracy can be improved by a unit that selects a single result from results determined by a plurality of determination units, based on images taken with a plurality of cameras.

A safety member for use with an injection device is disclosed. The safety member includes a blocking ring extending into a housing of the injection device in blocking association with a latch member associated with a trigger mechanism of the injector, in which the blocking ring blocks movement of a portion of the trigger mechanism into a firing position. The safety member further includes a manipulable portion disposed outside the housing and configured for hand-manipulation by a user to remove the safety member from the housing to unblock the firing mechanism to enable firing of the injector.

An airway intubation device having a one-piece molded body of biocompatible material with an ergonomically designed hand piece for left hand manipulation. The body includes a cap piece and linear-curved-linear insertion piece having a channel in one side thereof for insertion of an endotracheal tube. The channel has a wide entry portal disposed ahead of the hand piece so that a clinician may load the channel with a tube while the insertion piece is in the mouth of the patient without having to view the entry portal. The device includes illumination means and viewing means comprising an eye piece or a video display unit mounted to the cap piece so that a clinician can view the insertion of the tube between the vocal cords of a patient without contact.

Embodiments teaching appliance base constructions which increase stability, using both static and dynamic base extending elements. Methods to enhance coloring of the fried foods. Food support structures which utilize two-hand manipulation to increase safety and control. Removable handle construction, which decreases storage space. Peripheral feet on appliance base, to increase safety and stability. Various means for securing unitary food items, including fowl, during cooking. Structures which help prevent accidental deep fryer oil overflow onto supporting surfaces. Lid constructions, which keep a lid in place to protect the user, even while loading oversized, vertically extending foods. Food drainage opening assist device, to help drain fowl cavities after deep frying. Collapsible food support devices, used for cooking, serving, carving, and other purposes. Movable partitions within a food support, to compartmentalize, contain, cap, and space apart foods being cooked. Structures to help align over-extending food during their loading into a cooking vessel.

The system generally comprises a probe device, a computing device, an electronic media, a presentation device, and a suitable medium as a specimen. The probe is manipulated over the specimen and information from the probe is transmitted to the computing device. The computing device uses the probe information to identify the image and probe position on the specimen. Based upon the specimen and position of the probe on the specimen, electronic media is presented simulating an output of a real tool used to inspect an actual specimen. The hand manipulation of the probe coordinated with the display of the electronic media provides the visceral experience normally encountered by a user of the real tool. In one embodiment, the probe is a camera and the specimen an image identified by examination of an image feature database. In an alternative embodiment, the probe is a finger.

Provided is an input device for a mobile body, the input device allowing a safe input operation at the time of operating an equipment such as a car regardless of whether the mobile body is traveling or stopping. The input device includes: an input section (100) for receiving inputs by a hand operation and a voice operation; a traveling state determination section (600) for determining a traveling state of the mobile body; an item executability determination section (800) for determining, in the traveling state determined by the traveling state determination section (600), whether each of the inputs received by the input section corresponds to an item executable by the hand operation and the voice operation; a display content generation section (1000) for generating a display mode which distinguishably shows whether nor not the item is executable by the hand operation and the voice operation in accordance with a determination by the item executability determination section (800); and a display section (400) for displaying the display mode generated by the display content generation section (1000).

The system generally comprises a probe device, a computing device, an electronic media, a presentation device, and a suitable medium as a specimen. The probe is manipulated over the specimen and information from the probe is transmitted to the computing device. The computing device uses the probe information to identify the image and probe position on the specimen. Based upon the specimen and position of the probe on the specimen, electronic media is presented simulating an output of a real tool used to inspect an actual specimen. The hand manipulation of the probe coordinated with the display of the electronic media provides the visceral experience normally encountered by a user of the real tool. In one embodiment, the probe is a camera and the specimen an image identified by examination of an image feature database. In an alternative embodiment, the probe is a finger.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an optimization operation method and apparatus for a terminal interface. The method includes: acquiring hand operation information of a user by using an sensing apparatus on the terminal; determining, according to the hand operation information, a hand-holding manner in operating the terminal by the user and a hand parameter; acquiring an interface parameter on a current operation interface of the touchscreen; determining an operation blind area on the operation interface according to the hand-holding manner, the hand parameter, and the interface parameter; and performing optimization processing on an element in the operation blind area, so that the user can operate the element in the operation blind area in the hand-holding manner.

When a vehicle navigation system is manipulated by taking pictures of a user hand motion and gesture with a camera, as the number of apparatuses and operational objects increases, the associated hand shapes and hand motions increase, thus causing a complex manipulation for a user. Furthermore, in detecting a hand with the camera, when the image of a face having color tone information similar to that of a hand appears in an image taken with a camera, or outside light rays such as sun rays or illumination rays vary, detection accuracy is reduced. To overcome such problems, a manipulation input device is provided that includes a limited hand manipulation determination unit and a menu representation unit, whereby a simple manipulation can be achieved and manipulation can accurately be determined. In addition, detection accuracy can be improved by a unit that selects a single result from results determined by a plurality of determination units, based on images taken with a plurality of cameras.

A puppetry based system and method is provided. Specifically, the puppetry based system and method comprises a computer environment including one or more images, symbols and other proprietary content (collectively referred to as “images”). A printer is connected to the computer environment for printing the images in paper form. A hinge is provide which is attached to the paper form. The hinge is adapted for hand manipulation to create a hand actuated puppet which is representative of the image. In another aspect of the present invention, a puppetry based business model system and method is provided wherein content providers and owners provide images, to a puppet site. The puppet site reconfigures the images, symbols and other proprietary content to include a hinge area which, when such images are downloaded in paper form; the hinge area is adapted to be hand manipulated to form the paper form into a hand actuated puppet representation of the image. Users, such as children, teachers and parents, subscribe to the puppet site and download selected images in paper form. The paper forms are formed into hand actuated puppets representative of the images and are used for communication, play, entertainment and learning. Further, the puppet site may include a training laboratory equipped with multimedia audio and video to provide demonstrations and modeling of skills and techniques associated with puppet-based learning and communication.

A drawing compass with a structure of L shape and a method of using the same provide improved single-hand manipulation and handling of drawing an arc or circle. The drawing compass comprises a handle rotatably mounted on one end of an arm and a pivot pin holder slidably mounted along the arm. One can make an arc or circle by simply holding the handle perpendicular to a drawing surface, placing the pivot pin at the center and making a circular motion guided by the arm of the compass. In the drawing process, the pressure applied on the marking point is directly controlled by hand. The compass is easy to use, inexpensive, and simple to manufacture.

A method of forming a division post assembly for guiding a moveable window panel in a motor vehicle comprises: forming a body portion free of structural metal and coextruding at least one sealing wing with the body portion to form a coextruded assembly. The body portion comprises a first material and has a generally U-shaped cross-section including a base and first and second opposing walls defining a channel configured to receive at least an edge of the moveable window panel. The sealing wing projects into the channel and comprises a second material different than the first material. The body portion and the coextruded assembly exhibit sufficient flexibility for hand manipulation into a curved shape having a first radius of curvature that is substantially the same as a second radius of curvature of a mold cavity of a mold into which the coextruded assembly is configured for placement.

A safety member for use with an injection device is disclosed. The safety member includes a blocking ring extending into a housing of the injection device in blocking association with a latch member associated with a trigger mechanism of the injector, in which the blocking ring blocks movement of a portion of the trigger mechanism into a firing position. The safety member further includes a manipulable portion disposed outside the housing and configured for hand-manipulation by a user to remove the safety member from the housing to unblock the firing mechanism to enable firing of the injector.

A water treatment apparatus which facilitates the installation of a water treatment unit and prefilter into an existing plumbing system. The apparatus includes a bypass valve interconnected with a prefilter and water treatment unit using a connection box. The fittings and orientations are chosen for the components so that various configurations and orientations can be easily accommodated and with a minimum of parts. The apparatus eliminates the need for fabricating conduit segments, etc. at the installation site. The apparatus for connecting a water treatment unit to a water distribution system includes a control valve having spaced apart inlet and outlet ports and a connection module defining first and second flow passages. The first flow passage extends between first and second external ports and the second flow passage extends between third and fourth external ports. The first and third external ports are arranged and configured to correspond to the configuration and. spacing of the control valve inlet and outlet ports. A filter unit includes inlet and outlet ports that are configured and oriented to correspond to the configuration and spacing of the control valve inlet and outlet ports. The filter includes a filter head and a sump releasably coupled to the head. The sump at least partially defines a filter chamber containing a replaceable filter element. A cup seal seals the interface between the head and the sump and includes a sealing lip that is urgent to sealing engagement with a filter chamber wall by water pressure. At predetermined lower water pressures the sealing engagement between the seal and the chamber wall is reduced to enable the sump to be decoupled using hand manipulation. At least one of the filter ports is swivelly connected to the head to enable the orientation of the port to be changed.

An airway intubation device having a one-piece molded body of biocompatible material with an ergonomically designed hand piece for left hand manipulation. The body includes a cap piece and linear-curved-linear insertion piece having a channel in one side thereof for insertion of an endotracheal tube. The channel has a wide entry portal disposed ahead of the hand piece so that a clinician may load the channel with a tube while the insertion piece is in the mouth of the patient without having to view the entry portal. The device includes illumination means and viewing means comprising an eye piece or a video display unit mounted to the cap piece so that a clinician can view the insertion of the tube between the vocal cords of a patient without contact.

Embodiments of the invention provide a man-machine interaction method and a touch screen wearable device, and relates to the field of electronics. The method and the device solve problems that a hand shields touch operation caused by small screen of the touch screen wearable device, and precision requirement on finger operational motion is high, and multi-functional gesture recognition operation is realized in the touch screen wearable device. The method comprises: through an infrared technology, detecting the distance between the upper surface of the touch screen wearable device and an object in front of the device, according to the distance, determining whether the object is on a pseudo operation plane; when the object is on the pseudo operation plane, obtaining hand operation of a user on the pseudo operation plane; and obtaining a machine operation instruction corresponding to the hand operation, and responding to the machine operation instruction. The method and the device are used for man-machine interaction.

A master device is provided to a master slave apparatus in which a hand mechanism opens / closes to grip a target object and a slave mechanism performs a task on a target article. The master device includes a hand manipulation mechanism for manipulating the hand mechanism. A person remotely manipulates the slave mechanism by a master mechanism and the hand manipulation mechanism manipulates to cause the hand mechanism to perform the task. In the hand manipulation mechanism, a hand manipulation portion having a pair of open / close manipulation portions manipulated by the person moves forward / backward on a slider, the pair of open / close manipulation portions is opened / closed to change the angle therebetween so that the hand mechanism is opened / closed. A master hand control device transmits, to the slave mechanism, motion information used for manipulating the hand mechanism based on a position of the hand manipulation portion relative to the slider or the angle.

The invention discloses a high-altitude operation remote operation method and system based on stereo vision and gesture control. A PC end receives high-altitude operation area scene information acquired by a binocular stereo camera and displays the information on a wearable stereo display; according to the stereo scene work condition displayed by the wearable stereo display, hand operation is performed and movement information of hands and fingers is tracked in real time, the tracked movement information of hands and fingers is sent to the PC end and processed to be converted into a movement instruction of a bionic manipulator; and after the bionic manipulator receives the processed and converted movement instruction to follow correspondingly to complete remote operation of high-altitude operation. By use of the stereo vision and gesture control combined remote operation method and system, the personal safety of a high-altitude operator can be guaranteed, three-dimensional perception of the operator for a site scene during remote operation is improved, and the interaction nature and immersion of the remote operation are enhanced.

The present invention relates to an improved protective case which is applied to an out-folding image display device the circumferential shape of which changes by the folding or unfolding rotation about a folding axis of a flexible display device, unlike existing plate-shaped image display devices having an unchangeable circumferential shape. In case an out-folding image display device is unfolded, a user's one-hand manipulation is improved, with the protective case unfolded, by minimizing a part for maintaining the unfolding of the protective case. The improved protective case is capable of performing the bumper function of limitedly absorbing an impact on a circumferential part inflicted when the out-folding image display device is dropped, as well as performing a cover plate function such as the prevention of the scratching of the flexible display device.

The invention discloses a portable heart color ultrasound positioning puncture device, which comprises two positioning suction cups, and the positioning brackets are fixedly connected to the tops of the two positioning suction cups respectively. The two positioning brackets are arranged in parallel with each other, the two positioning brackets are respectively slidably sleeved with lifting seats in a vertical direction, and rotating shafts are rotatably connected to one side of the two lifting seats. The c portable heart color ultrasound positioning puncture device of the present invention adjusts the puncture position and angle of the puncture device by means of instrumentalized operation, and can position the puncture position and angle to facilitate puncture, the puncture position is more accurate, and puncture can be carried out by the puncture device through instrumentation operation, which avoids the error problem caused by hand manipulation, the puncture stability is high, the accuracy of the puncture is improved, the use is convenient and quick, and the device is suitable for popularization and use.

A method of breast augmentation uses a sleeve to insert a sterile silicone breast implant sealed within the sleeve into a surgical pocket in a breast of a human patient, the sleeve having a removable end and wherein the sleeve is transparent or semi-transparent. The method includes cutting the end and grasping the silicone breast implant through the sleeve; and applying manual pressure through the sleeve to the silicone breast implant to push the silicone breast implant toward and through the second opening, without direct hand manipulation of the silicone breast implant, until the silicone breast implant is deposited from the end into the surgical pocket.

The invention relates to the field of smart door locks and particularly relates to a voice print unlocking method. The method is used for opening a smart door lock. The method comprises a, recording user voice prints and building a voice print database, b, acquiring audio information through a smart door lock, c, determining whether there is a valid voice print through audio processing, d, if there is no a valid voice print, carrying out the step b, and if there is a valid voiceprint, verifying and comparing voices to determine whether there is door opening permission, and e, if there is no the door opening permission, carrying out the step b and if there is the door opening permission, opening the smart door lock. The smart door lock combines the audio acquisition and voice print identification. The smart door lock changes the unlocking method of the traditional intelligent door lock so that the user's hands are free, the door opening process is finished without hand operation and theuser experience is improved.

The invention discloses a servo mechanism based active force / touch sense feedback system and a work method thereof. The system is composed of a computer, a motion tracking sensor and a force / touch sense feedback mechanism and a controller. Hand motion data is collected in real time through the motion tracking sensor and sent to the computer, and collision detection of the hand and a tool or a control in a virtual environment is conducted. When the hand does not make contact with the tool or the control, the computer conducts hand motion locus prediction and motion planning and drives the force-touch sense feedback mechanism to conduct servo motion; when the tool or the control is operated with the hand, the force / touch sense feedback mechanism tail end drives the corresponding tool or control to reach the target position of a hand operation, touch sense feedback is provided, and meanwhile the computer conducts real-time collision response and force sense generation, drives the force / touch sense feedback mechanism to output force and provides active force sense feedback. By means of the system, the immersion and interaction of a virtual reality system can be improved, the size is small, the flexibility is high, and the system can be applied to the fields of virtual surgery, virtual driving and the like.

A tube fitting is provided which is capable of easily attaching and detaching a tube by one hand manipulation and of more improving attachability and detachability and setting pressure contact force to be higher. The tube fitting including a tubular main body, a sleeve being tubular-shaped and being fixed in the main body with axial lines of the main body and the sleeve coincided with each other, a locking member having a ring part and a plurality of extended parts extending from the ring part toward an axial direction and being mounted in the sleeve in a state where axial lines of the ring part and the sleeve are coincided with each other and being movable in the sleeve in an axial direction and in a circumferential direction.

The invention relates to a clutching-wheel-free electronic hand setting and time-correction pointer type quartz watch movement. The clutching-wheel-free electronic hand setting and time-correction pointer type quartz watch movement comprises a shell of the watch movement, wherein the shell of the watch movement is provided with an electronic hand setting and assembly, a stepping motor, a circuit board, a driving wheel system which is connected between the electronic hand setting and assembly and the stepping motor and is used for driving the electronic hand setting and assembly to work, and a positive electrode piece connected between the circuit board and a power supply; the circuit board is connected with an integrated control circuit for controlling the stepping motor to work through output pulse. The clutching-wheel-free electronic hand setting and time-correction pointer type quartz watch movement is characterized in that the shell of the watch movement is further internally provided with a second stopping column made of a conductive material, a second stopping rod, a handle shaft and a switching pulling piece. The watch movement provided by the invention is provided with a clutching-wheel-free electronic hand setting and time-correction mechanism, and has the advantages of few parts, simplicity in installation, no damages on gears, no hand shaking, no hand swaying, no need of too high machining precision and the like; and the quality of the movement and the use reliability can be improved. Clockwise hand manipulation and anticlockwise hand manipulation can be carried out through display hour, minute and second hands according to function requirements.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, and discloses a silent interaction method and electronic equipment. The silent interaction method comprises the following steps: acquiring a first electromyographic signal of a preset position of a mouth; and obtaining voice information according to the first electromyographic signal. Therefore, the effective information in the silent interaction process can be quickly and effectively obtained without additional hand operation of a user.

The invention provides a method for determining an operation space of a hand brake and a system thereof, wherein the method comprises the steps of: establishing a hand brake template in a manner that a hand brake handle side contour, a hand brake button end surface center point and a hand brake axis are used as variables; a second step, adding a hand operation space on the hand brake template for forming a hand brake operation template; a third step, rotating a hand brake operation template through the rotating axis and rotating angle of the hand brake, and forming a hand brake operation space template; a fourth step, calling the hand brake operation space template, inputting specific parameters of the hand brake handle side contour, the hand brake button end surface center point and the hand brake axis, and generating a hand brake operation space model; and a fifth step, determining the size of the hand brake operation space which is required in an automobile according to the hand brake operation space model. The method of the invention aims to accurately and quickly determine the size of the hand brake operation space under a precondition that human engineering requirement of a finger operation hand brake is satisfied, thereby providing theatrical basis for reserving the hand brake operation space in the automobile.

The invention discloses a novel flexible fingerstall-type photoelectric mouse, provides a mouse which can be arranged on a finger in a sleeving manner and can be wirelessly operated, and belongs to the field of computer accessories. The novel flexible fingerstall-type photoelectric mouse consists of flexible air-permeable fingerstalls, a plastic wrist band, optical inductor members, pressure sensing devices, batteries and a wireless transmitter, wherein the flexible fingerstalls are arranged on a middle finger and an index finger in a sleeving manner; the front end of each fingerstall is internally provided with the optical inductor member, wherein each optical inductor member comprises an optical lens assembly and a light emitting diode; two raised points at the bottom ends of the fingerstalls are the pressure sensing devices; a plastic shell at the upper parts of the fingerstalls is a control module which is internally provided with an optical inductor, a control chip and a corresponding control circuit; two connecting wires are connected to the rear part of the control module and connected with the wrist band; a battery cabin and the wireless transmitter are arranged above the wrist band. According to the novel flexible fingerstall-type photoelectric mouse disclosed by the invention, a conventional mouse which is operated with one hand is changed to be operated by a finger operation mode, so that convenience is provided for a user whose fingers are inconvenient to move, and meanwhile, the requirements of a common photoelectric mouse for an operation plane flatness are eliminated.

The invention belongs to the technical field of computer hardware, and particularly relates to a mouse capable of cooling a hand part and reducing the operation friction force, and a mouse mat. The mouse comprises a mouse body, the mouse mat and an inner mouse body power circuit, wherein the bottom of the mouse body is made of a magnetic material; the mouse mat comprises a light reflection surface layer and a magnetic mat layer which is adhered with the light reflection surface layer and is made of a magnetic material; the magnetic material of the bottom of the mouse body and the magnetic material of the magnetic mat layer of the mouse mat are repellent homopolar magnetic materials; a TEC (thermoelectric cooling) plate is also arranged on the back of the mouse body and is connected with the inner power circuit of the mouse body by virtue of s switch; the cold side of the TEC plate faces the outer side of the mouse surface. Under the action of magnetic repulsion, the sliding friction force between the mouse and the mouse mat in a service process is reduced, and the feeling of fatigue of a user operating the mouse with the hand part is reduced. According to the mouse and the mouse mat, the discomfort that the palm of the hand part is sweated due to heat when the user uses the mouse for a long time in summer is overcome.

A child and bite resistant package having a tray and a plurality of spaced apart cavities that are formed therein is provided. A sheet material overlies the tray such that a product disposed in a cavity is enclosed and sealed therein. The sheet material includes a plurality of zones of weakening that are each disposed above a corresponding cavity. Each of the zones of weakening is formed by a plurality of microperforations that are formed in the sheet material. The plurality of microperforations, and hence, each zone of weakening covers from about 5 to 90% of the surface area of the sheet material that overlies each of the individual compartments. To access a product, the product is pushed against the lidding in the zone of weakness with sufficient force to rupture the lidding. Since the majority of the surface area above each compartment is non-rupturable, the compartments are difficult to access by a child by either hand manipulation or biting.