Head-Mounted Color Picking for Flexible Electronic Device Input
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with color pickers are less flexible, limiting users' ability to select colors from a default list.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device communicates with a head-mounted device to allow users to select colors from their physical environment, using sensors and communication circuitry to identify and transmit color information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a default list of colors is used in the color picker, then the device structure remains simple, but the flexibility and accuracy of color selection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a head-mounted device as an intermediary between the user and the electronic device. The head-mounted device captures color information from the physical environment and transmits it to the electronic device, enabling flexible color selection without complicating the electronic device's structure. The electronic device simply receives and processes the color data from the external head-mounted device.
2Measurement precision
If sensors are added to the electronic device for color identification, then color selection accuracy improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The head-mounted device serves as an intermediary that performs the complex function of color identification using its sensors. The electronic device avoids adding its own sensors by receiving color information from the head-mounted device, thus maintaining simplicity while achieving accurate color selection through the intermediary's measurement capabilities.
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AI summary
A head-mounted device may be paired with an external electronic device. During operation of the external electronic device, a user may wish to select a color for a function using a color picker. The user may provide input to the external electronic device to initiate an HMD-based color picker mode where the head-mounted device is used to select a color for the paired external electronic device. The head-mounted device may transmit historical and/or real time color information to the external electronic device in response to the triggering of the HMD-based color picker mode. The user may select a color from the colors provided by the head-mounted device and the selected color may be used for a function on the external electronic device.