Gesture-Based Meeting Scheduling via 3D Hand Movement Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current meeting scheduling processes are cumbersome and often avoided by users, leading to a significant opportunity for streamlining the meeting creation and management process.

Innovation Solution

A system that uses gesture recognition technology, where hand movements in a three-dimensional space are detected to generate electronic commands for creating and managing meetings, allowing users to schedule and invite participants through intuitive hand gestures without the need for complex graphical user interfaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional graphical user interface methods are used for meeting scheduling, then meeting can be scheduled, but the process becomes tedious and cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of meeting schedulingVSAvoidcomplexity of user interface

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces traditional mechanical interaction with graphical user interfaces (mouse clicks, form filling) with gesture-based control system. The system captures hand gestures using imaging devices, processes these gestures through pattern recognition algorithms, and translates them into scheduling commands, thereby eliminating the need for complex GUI navigation while maintaining scheduling functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If many fields and options are provided in the interface, then comprehensive meeting control is possible, but users avoid using the system altogether

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemeeting scheduling efficiencyVSAvoiduser willingness to use scheduling system

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential scheduling functions from the complex multi-field interface and implements them through a small set of intuitive gestures. Instead of requiring users to navigate through numerous form fields and options, the system provides comprehensive meeting control through selective gesture commands that trigger appropriate scheduling actions, thereby maintaining functionality while dramatically simplifying user interaction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Measurement precision

If detailed participant information is manually entered, then accurate meeting invitations are sent, but the process is time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of participant selectionVSAvoidtime for scheduling process

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-organizing participant information into contact groups and categories before the scheduling moment. When a user performs a gesture to invite participants, the system rapidly retrieves and presents pre-categorized contact lists, allowing users to select multiple participants with a single gesture rather than manually typing each name, thereby maintaining accuracy while significantly reducing the time required for participant selection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS8782566B2Using gestures to schedule and manage meetings

Publication Date: 2014.07.15 CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

Techniques and configurations for an apparatus are provided for creating and managing meetings using gestures. Movements of a user's hand in a three-dimensional space are detected. The hand movements in the three-dimensional space are interpreted to identify a gesture intended by the user to set up or manage a meeting among a plurality of persons. An electronic command is generated from the detected gesture to set up or manage the meeting.