Stylus Motion Recognition via Tutorial Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

User terminals struggle to accurately recognize the motion of a stylus pen due to unconscious behaviors and varying user-specific motions, leading to limited convenience and efficiency in controlling electronic devices.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a processor that acquires motion information from a stylus pen, outputs command images, and determines motion commands based on user feedback, using techniques such as supervised learning and weight assignment to improve recognition accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the user terminal uses basic motion recognition for stylus pen control, then the device complexity is low, but the measurement precision of motion recognition is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemotion recognition accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting motion data during a tutorial phase before actual use. The processor stores multiple motion commands and their corresponding motion data in advance, enabling accurate recognition during actual operation without requiring complex real-time analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the processor compares acquired motion data with stored reference motion data, and uses user feedback from tutorial phase to refine motion recognition. This iterative feedback process improves measurement precision without proportionally increasing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system adapts to individual user behaviors through learning, then the adaptability increases, but the loss of time for data collection and processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser-specific adaptationVSAvoiddata collection time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by focusing learning on specific motion patterns relevant to stylus pen usage rather than all possible motions. During tutorial phase, only essential motion commands are collected and stored, reducing time investment while achieving sufficient adaptability for practical use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs adaptation preliminarily during a dedicated tutorial phase before actual operation begins. Motion data is collected and processed in advance, so that during normal use, the system can quickly retrieve pre-processed motion commands without time-consuming analysis, thus reducing operational time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If the processor analyzes all motion data in detail, then the measurement precision improves, but the productivity decreases due to processing time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemotion analysis accuracyVSAvoidcommand execution speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments motion analysis into two phases: tutorial phase where detailed analysis occurs to build reference data, and operation phase where simplified matching occurs. This segmentation allows comprehensive analysis when time is available (tutorial) while maintaining fast response during actual use (operation), resolving the productivity-precision trade-off.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The processor performs detailed motion analysis preliminarily during the tutorial phase to create comprehensive reference motion data. During actual operation, it only needs to match incoming motion data against pre-analyzed references, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining accuracy through the quality of preliminary analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12182345B2Electronic device and method of controlling electronic device
Publication Date: 2024.12.31 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communicator wirelessly connected to a stylus pen, a processor, and a memory storing instructions that cause the processor to acquire motion information of the stylus pen, in response to the motion information matching with a plurality of motion commands, output a plurality of command images corresponding to the plurality of motion commands, respectively, based on a user feedback command to select one of the plurality of command images, determine the motion information as a motion command corresponding to the selected command image, output a tutorial image, acquire motion information of the stylus pen corresponding to the tutorial image, and determine the motion information of the stylus pen as a motion command corresponding to the tutorial image.