Wearable Air Gesture Interaction via Sensor Pattern Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable devices with small touch screens present challenges for user interaction due to their limited size, making it difficult for users to effectively operate them using their fingers.
Innovation Solution
Implementing intuitive human-machine interfaces that utilize gestures, proximity sensing, voice recognition, and biometric information to allow users to interact with wearable devices through movements, air gestures, and predefined patterns, enabling operations such as data sharing, authentication, and object recognition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a small touch screen is used in a wearable device, then the device can be worn comfortably and integrated into daily life, but it becomes difficult for users to operate the device effectively
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional touch screen interaction to three-dimensional air gesture interaction. Users perform gestures in the air above the device, creating a spatial interaction layer that expands the operational dimension beyond the limited screen surface while maintaining device compactness for wearability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary interaction layer between the user and the device. Instead of direct finger contact with the small screen, users perform air gestures that are detected by sensors, and the system provides visual feedback through the display. This intermediary gesture recognition layer bridges the gap between limited screen real estate and user interaction needs.
2Ease of operation
If the touch screen size is increased to improve user interaction, then operability improves, but the device becomes less suitable for wearing and integration into daily life
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual interaction space above the device surface, allowing complex gestures to be performed in three-dimensional air space rather than constrained to the two-dimensional screen area. This enables enhanced operability without increasing the physical device size, maintaining wearability while providing intuitive gesture-based control.
3Ease of operation
If air gesture recognition is implemented, then user interaction becomes more intuitive and operability improves, but device complexity increases due to additional sensors and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the wearable device's sensor system multi-functional by using existing sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes, proximity sensors) for both traditional device operations and air gesture recognition. This universal use of existing components enables intuitive gesture control without proportionally increasing device complexity, as the same hardware serves multiple purposes.
Data Source
AI summary
A wearable device interactive system and techniques, methods and apparatuses thereof are described. A wearable device may sense a movement by a user wearing the wearable device. The wearable device may also determine whether a path of the movement corresponds to one or more predefined patterns. The wearable device may further perform one or more operations in response to a determination that the path of the movement corresponds to at least one of the one or more predefined patterns.