Personalized Input Panel Generation via Hand Shape Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing input panels on touch-screen devices are not adaptable to individual user input habits, leading to inaccuracies and increased instances of mistouches due to a fixed layout that does not account for user-specific hand shapes and touch patterns.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that obtain hand shape information, compare it with standard data to generate personalized input panels, adjusting key locations and touch sensitivity based on user-specific features to enhance accuracy and usability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a fixed input panel layout is used, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability to different users and input accuracy deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user input habitsVSAvoidinput panel generation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by capturing hand shape images and analyzing touch point data before generating the personalized input panel. This preprocessing of user biometric data enables the subsequent automatic generation of customized key layouts without requiring complex real-time adjustments during actual input operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes physical parameters of the input panel by adjusting key positions, sizes, and distributions based on extracted hand shape features. The key layout parameters are dynamically modified according to measured hand dimensions, finger lengths, and touch patterns, transforming a fixed layout into an adaptive one.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If hand shape analysis is implemented, then input accuracy is improved, but measurement precision requirements and device complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehand shape measurement precisionVSAvoidhand shape image analysis difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a digital copy of the user's hand shape through image capture and processing. Instead of requiring complex physical measurement devices, the patent uses optical imaging to replicate hand geometry in digital form, which can then be analyzed through software algorithms to extract relevant biometric features for input panel customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10379659B2Method and apparatus for generating a personalized input panel
Publication Date: 2019.08.13 BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECH (BEIJIBG) CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention provides a method for generating a personalized input panel in a user equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a. obtaining hand shape information of a user; b. comparing the hand shape information of the user with predetermined hand shape information, to obtain hand shape feature information of the user; c. generating a personalized input panel suitable for the user based on the hand shape feature information. According to the solution of the present invention, a personalized input panel that conforms to the hand shape features and use habits of a user may be provided.