Wearable Audio Gesture Subscription Service
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for wearable audio devices lack efficient methods to interpret and utilize diverse user gestures for augmented reality applications, leading to limitations in user interaction and functionality due to hardware and firmware compatibility issues.
Innovation Solution
A computer program product that obtains gesture data from sensors on wearable audio devices, determines specific gestures, and assigns them to device-agnostic input variables, allowing for flexible interpretation and use in augmented reality applications, even when specific hardware capabilities are not available.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If gesture data is obtained from multiple sensors on wearable audio devices, then gesture recognition capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal gesture subscription service that works across multiple wearable audio device types with different sensor configurations. The system maps various sensor inputs (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, touch sensors) to a common set of gesture types, allowing the same software interface to support gesture recognition on devices with different hardware capabilities without requiring device-specific implementations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary gesture subscription layer between the sensor hardware and the application software. This subscription service acts as a mediator that receives raw sensor data, processes it through gesture recognition algorithms, and outputs standardized gesture events. This intermediary abstracts the complexity of sensor integration from both the hardware and software sides, allowing independent development of each layer.
2Measurement precision
If device-specific gesture interpretation is used, then gesture accuracy is improved, but compatibility across different devices deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs parameter changes by allowing the gesture subscription service to dynamically adjust gesture recognition parameters based on the specific device's sensor capabilities. The system can modify sensitivity thresholds, gesture duration requirements, and motion detection parameters to optimize accuracy for each device while maintaining a consistent gesture vocabulary across all devices. This enables device-specific tuning without sacrificing cross-device compatibility.
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AI summary
A computer program product and method for sending sensor data, the computer program product including a set of non-transitory computer readable instructions stored on a memory and executable by a processor, the set of non-transitory computer readable instructions arranged to: obtain gesture data from at least one sensor of a first wearable audio device; determine a first gesture from the gesture data; and, assign the first gesture to a device-agnostic gesture comprising at least one of: an Augmented Reality (AR) input variable, an affirmative input variable, or a negative input variable.