639 results about "Visual control" patented technology

The present invention provides a method of human-computer interfacing that provides haptic feedback to control interface interactions such as scrolling or zooming within an application. Haptic feedback in the present method allows the user more intuitive control of the interface interactions, and allows the user's visual focus to remain on the application. The method comprises providing a control domain within which the user can control interactions. For example, a haptic boundary can be provided corresponding to scrollable or scalable portions of the application domain. The user can position a cursor near such a boundary, feeling its presence haptically (reducing the requirement for visual attention for control of scrolling of the display). The user can then apply force relative to the boundary, causing the interface to scroll the domain. The rate of scrolling can be related to the magnitude of applied force, providing the user with additional intuitive, non-visual control of scrolling.

A device allowing a user to inconspicuously send and receive wireless messages, often short text messages. The device may have an outward appearance resembling standard eyeglasses or sun glasses, and comprise a built in wireless transceiver and an optical display that enables the user to inconspicuously view incoming wireless text messages. The device allows the user to inconspicuously transmit outgoing text messages by a process in which the user simply moves his or her eyes and gazes at various display targets. The device's eye tracking systems and software track the motion and gaze of the user's eyes, and convert this gaze into message symbols and system control commands. The device then transmits the resulting messages using its transceiver. In a preferred embodiment, the device is self-contained and operates, when placed on the user's head, without the need of external battery packs or external transceivers.

This relates to electronic devices that include a multi-touch user interface component. More specifically, this relates to portable media devices that enable a user to listen to music, facilitate telephone conversations, send and receive electronic messages, and utilize a multi-touch input panel in an eyes-free manner. A user may use a multi-touch user input component to navigate a menu system absent a functioning display screen, virtual buttons or any other visual cues or prompts. Audio cues, portions of prerecorded songs, and any other type of audio information may help the user to mentally map and quickly navigate the device's menu system.

Systems, devices, and methods that operate a wearable heads-up display (“WHUD”) as a remote controller to wirelessly control at least one other electronic device are described. The WHUD displays a visual control interface including a set of user-selectable icons that each correspond to a respective function for the electronic device under wireless/remote control. The WHUD includes an eye tracker that detects when the user is looking/gazing at a particular one of the icons in the visual control interface. The user provides an indication that he/she wishes to select the particular icon at which he/she is gazing/looking (e.g., by dwelling his/her gaze on the particular icon or by performing a selection action via a separate portable interface device). In response, the WHUD wirelessly transmits a signal that provides data and/or instructions for the electronic device under wireless/remote control to effect the particular function selected by the user.

The disclosed communication node has a function for recognizing one communication node on the first network as one of constituent elements in own communication node, and a function for disclosing an own configuration information regarding the constituent elements as recognized above, to another communication node on the second network. Also, the disclosed communication terminal has a function for disclosing functions in the own communication terminal as Sub Units in an AV/C (Audio/Visual Control) protocol executed on an IEEE 1394 bus, and a function for receiving at least a part of information regarding Sub Units existing in the communication node on the second network with which it is communicating. Together, these communication node and communication terminal make it possible to transmit various information transferred on the IEEE 1394 bus, to the radio node that is connected by the radio interface, and it becomes possible to execute the data communications as if the connection to the IEEE 1394 bus is made by the radio interface.

A handheld infrared camera having a lens assembly, an electric energy source and a handling elements for recording and handling information received via the lens assembly has an essentially elongate housing. The lens assembly is mounted at one end of the housing, the other end portion of which is formed as a user handle, the longitudinal axis of which preferably is inclined relative to the optical axis of the lens assembly to form an angle (αalpha) with the optical axis. There are provided manual control elements for allowing single hand operation of the camera, and a visual control elements is intended to be viewed when holding and operating the camera away from the eye and the body of a user. The camera is advantageously provided with elements for wireless transmission of information from the camera.

A master-slave control flexible continuum robot device and a control method thereof belong to the technical field of robots. The master-slave control flexible continuum robot device comprises a control arm, a mechanical arm and a control system. The mechanical arm is a trunk simulative flexible arm and achieves bending through a plurality of screw-driven flexible rods. A system enables the mechanical arm to complete the same actions by simulating the control actions of operators on the control arm, and therefore simple and visual control on the mechanical arm is achieved. The master-slave control flexible continuum robot device achieves visual master-slave control by aid of the characteristic that the control arm is similar to the mechanical arm and by combining the sensor and the controller; controls the mechanical arm through the scaled-down control arm; effectively reduces the control difficulty and is applicable to remote control operation. In addition, the master-slave control flexible continuum robot device can bend, extend and contract in multiple directions, has unique grabbing, operating and obstacle evading functions, and has a wide application prospect.

The invention provides a deep water net-cage remote-monitoring system which comprises an underwater camera device, a controller, a GPRS communication network, and a monitoring room GPRS terminal and computer. The main body of the underwater camera device is a plurality of CCD cameras which are independently-sealed in a probe shell, so that the requirement for optical signal in sea is reduced and the quality of video signal is improved. A plurality of probes are arranged vertically and horizontally to facilitate the multi-angle observation of working state of the net-cage. The camera signal istransmitted to the controller via a video cable and processed and then transmitted to the computer in the monitoring room via the GPRS communication network. The computer processes the signal by visual control to produce fish video images shot by the plurality of probes. As a result, the user can know the cultivation conditions in the net cage at any time without going to the spot on the sea.

The invention discloses a real-time adjustable and controllable hanging type underground oil and water separating system, which comprises an underground sleeve pipe, a water injection oil pipe, an oil extracting oil pipe and a flow rate control valve, wherein the flow rate control valve is arranged at the wellhead part, the aboveground ground is provided with a visual control device, a hanging type three-way joint connected with the oil extracting oil pipe, an oil and water separator and the water injection oil pipe is arranged in the sleeve, the oil and water separator is connected with an electric submersible pump unit, a water injection pressure regulating device is arranged on the water injection oil pipe, a flow rate and pressure monitoring instrument is arranged in the electric submersible pump unit, a flow rate and pressure monitoring instrument and a regulating valve are arranged in the flow rate control valve, monitoring instrument cables and signal transmission cables are respectively connected among the electric submersible pump unit, the water injection pressure regulating device, the flow rate control valve and the visual control device, the visual control device converts received real-time flow rate and pressure signals into visual data to be output, and the work of the whole system is regulated and controlled. The hanging type underground oil and water separating system has the advantages that the stability is high, the treatment capability is high, and the hanging type underground oil and water separating system can be widely applied to an oilfield same-well production injection process.

An apparatus and method capable of purchasing external charged content in a UPnP network are provided. A media server (MS) provides a media renderer (MR) with a URL that executes a CGI that that performs purchasing of a charged content included in an external server, and, if the MR requests the reproduction of content corresponding to the URL, the MS executes a CGI of the URL, purchases charged content corresponding to the URL, and downloads the charged content, thereby browsing a list of contents provided by an external contents purchase site through a consumer electronic device such as a digital television, in which a UPnP audio/visual control point is mounted without a separate interface, purchasing desired content, and reproducing the purchased content.

A robot system having a vision sensor. The robot system includes a robot; a robot controlling section for controlling an operation of the robot; an imaging section provided on the robot and obtaining image data of a working environment of the robot; an image processing section for processing the image data obtained in the imaging section; a vision controlling section for controlling the imaging section and the image processing section to cause execution of obtaining the image data, transmitting the image data thus obtained, and processing the image data; and a communication network to which the robot controlling section, the image processing section and the vision controlling section are connected. The robot controlling section, the image processing section and the vision controlling section are incorporated into a common robot control unit, the imaging section is connected to the image processing section through the communication network, and the vision controlling section causes a transmission of the image data obtained in the imaging section through the communication network to the image processing section.

The submarine has a plurality of oil spill detection and removal means, oil/water separating device and oil store tanks. Lights and camera sets are installed in a manner allowing a visual control over the movement of the submarine and over the process of oil removal. A telescopic boom, a sail suction platform and deck suction means are provided to collect the oil spill from the surface of water and from beneath the ice. A bottom suction compartment is provided to collect the oil spill rising from the sea floor to the surface.

There is described a medical examination and/or treatment apparatus with an electromagnet for generating a magnetic field for navigating a medical instrument and an x-ray device having an x-ray source and an x-ray detector attached to a bracket for visual control during the navigation, with the x-ray source and the x-ray detector being arranged on the electromagnet embodied as a hollow cylinder, on the front ends of which are located two ring coils which are arranged in parallel, between which a number of saddle coils arranged in the peripheral direction are arranged, with the hollow cylinder being arranged on a bracket which can be moved about a number of axes.

A robotic vision and vision control system includes a stereoscopic camera mounted on a robot and a remote three-dimensional display system that provides the operator of the robot with a good sense of depth or distance for more precisely maneuvering the robot. The stereoscopic display system can further include an eye-tracking system that monitors the operator's eyes to determine the direction in which the operator's eyes are looking and points the camera in that direction.

The invention relates to the field of water power dam construction progress control, and discloses a construction progress management method based on a visualization technology. The construction progress management method based on the visualization technology comprises based on the visualization technology, through establishment of a BIM model, after a progress plan is compiled, a WBS item association model of the progress plan is established. A system can carry out simulation of the progress plan in a three-dimensional scene according to selection of the progress plan. In a construction process, actual progress is logged in, the system can compare the actual progress with a construction total progress plan, and projects with delays are displayed in the three-dimensional scene through special marks. A construction progress management system, through a system built-in algorithm, by use of a three-dimensional visualization technology, can respectively visually display the plan progress and the actual progress in the three-dimensional scene, can also track the construction process and analyzes a comparison between the plan and the actual progress. The problem of incapability real-time visual control of water power dam construction progress is solved.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle on-vehicle first visual angle follow-up nacelle system based on VR interaction. The system comprises an on-vehicle photoelectric nacelle, an unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system, a ground control station, wearable VR glasses and a control handle. The VR glasses are worn on the head of a user and are connected with the ground control station through a USB bus. The control handle is used for manual operation by the user and is connected with the ground control station through Bluetooth. The on-vehicle photoelectric nacelle is connected with the ground control station through a wireless transceiver device. The unmanned aerial vehicle flight control system is connected with the ground control station through the wireless transceiver device. The unmanned aerial vehicle on-vehicle first visual angle follow-up nacelle system is a novel unmanned aerial vehicle on-vehicle follow-up nacelle system. Technical advantages of VR are sufficiently integrated at a man-machine interaction aspect. The unmanned aerial vehicle on-vehicle first visual angle follow-up nacelle system is substantially different from a traditional third-visual-angle task nacelle system. The unmanned aerial vehicle on-vehicle first visual angle follow-up nacelle system realizes uniqueness of first-visual-angle visual control and furthermore improves vivid sensory shock of the user. Furthermore the unmanned aerial vehicle on-vehicle first visual angle follow-up nacelle system has advantages of relatively flexible realization manner, simple operation, high control precision, low cost and high real-time performance.