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20100277414 | KEYBOARD FOR A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method for managing a virtual keyboard is disclosed and may include detecting whether a button is pressed and determining a contact patch size associated with a user digit pressing the button. The method may also include determining a button size associated with the button, determining whether the button size satisfies an optimized condition, querying a user to re-size the button when the button size does not satisfy the optimized condition, and automatically re-sizing the button so the button size satisfies the optimized condition. Further, the method may include querying a user to re-size all buttons and automatically re-sizing all buttons based on an optimized button size. | 11-04-2010 |
20110115784 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL OBJECTS ON A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of manipulating a three-dimensional (3D) virtual objects at a wireless device is disclosed and includes detecting a press on a 3D sensor array and moving the 3D virtual object in response to the press. Further, the method includes detecting a release of the press on the 3D sensor array and stopping the 3D virtual object. | 05-19-2011 |
20110116665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUND AT A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of providing three-dimensional (3D) sound at a wireless device is disclosed and may include detecting movement of a 3D virtual object within a display, determining a direction of the movement of the 3D virtual object, and transmitting sound from a 3D sound system that tracks the direction of the movement of the 3D virtual object. The method may further include selectively altering a phase of the sound as the 3D virtual object moves, selectively altering a volume of the sound as the 3D virtual object moves, selective altering a pitch of the sound as the 3D virtual object moves, selectively altering a tone of the sound as the 3D virtual object moves, or a combination thereof. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119639 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HAPTIC COMMUNICATION AT A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of haptic communication at a wireless device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an input gesture and generating an input gesture message from the input gesture. The input gesture message may be operable for transmission to a receiving wireless device. | 05-19-2011 |
20120329432 | RELEVANT CONTENT DELIVERY - Various arrangements for delivery of relevant content to a mobile device of a user are presented. Physiological state data and image data related to the user of the mobile device may be received by a host computer system from a mobile device. The image data may be analyzed to identify a characteristic of the image. The physiological state data may also be analyzed. Content to deliver to the mobile device of the user may be selected at least partially based on the physiological state data of the user and the characteristic of the image. The content may be transmitted to the mobile device. | 12-27-2012 |
20130232011 | RELEVANT CONTENT DELIVERY - Various arrangements for delivery of relevant content to a mobile device of a user are presented. Physiological state data and image data related to the user of the mobile device may be received by a host computer system from a mobile device. The image data may be analyzed to identify a characteristic of the image. The physiological state data may also be analyzed. Content to deliver to the mobile device of the user may be selected at least partially based on the physiological state data of the user and the characteristic of the image. The content may be transmitted to the mobile device. | 09-05-2013 |
20140154649 | ASSOCIATING USER EMOTION WITH ELECTRONIC MEDIA - Systems, methods, devices, and apparatuses for associating a user emotion with electronic media are described. Contact between a user of a device and a biopotential electrode array that is integrated with the device is detected. Electrodermal data of the user is acquired via the biopotential electrode array. The user emotion is derived based at least in part on the acquired electrodermal data. The user emotion is then associated with the electronic media. | 06-05-2014 |
20140317722 | GRIP FORCE SENSOR ARRAY FOR ONE-HANDED AND MULTIMODAL INTERACTION ON HANDHELD DEVICES AND METHODS - Aspects of the disclosure relate to a handheld device equipped with arrays of force sensors located along both sides of the device that can provide a novel user interface for operating the device. The sensors can be configured to recognize various grip patterns, gestures, and biometric information of a user operating the device. Using the arrays of force sensors in addition to a touchscreen, a new paradigm for operating a handheld device is provided. | 10-23-2014 |
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20110163946 | SIMULATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOUCH SENSATION USING HAPTICS - An apparatus includes a processing system, a display, and a plurality of haptic actuators. The display and the haptic actuators are coupled to the processing system. The processing system is configured to control the haptic actuators to simulate movement in a particular direction corresponding to movement in the particular direction in a visual depiction in the display. | 07-07-2011 |
20120115445 | DYNAMIC TAPPING FORCE FEEDBACK FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Dynamic force feedback is provided in a device to alert a user about a message received on the device from a remote user and to convey content, context, or a type of the message. Producing dynamic force feedback may include activating a motion induction device, which accelerates and decelerates a mass to create tapping within the device. The amplitude and frequency of the tapping may be configured to produce sequences of taps to alert the user about different types, contexts, or content of received messages. Additionally, multiple motion induction devices may be included in a device to produce dynamic force feedback along multiple dimensions. Multiple dimension dynamic force feedback may be used in providing geographical directions to a user. | 05-10-2012 |
20130063256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ENHANCE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS WITH EMOTIONAL CONTEXT - Methods, systems, and devices are described for augmenting electronic communications with emotional context. Electronic communications is received from a first device. An expression of a user of the first device is captured at the first device. Data based on the captured expression is received from the first device. The received data is analyzed to determine emotional context associated with the user of the first device. A haptic response is generated based on the determined emotional context. The haptic response is associated with the received electronic communications. The haptic response is provided concurrently with the access of the electronic communications to indicate the emotional context of the user. | 03-14-2013 |
20130085367 | DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE BIOPOTENTIAL ELECTRODE ARRAY TO COLLECT PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA - Methods, systems, and devices are described for collecting physiological data using a configurable biopotential array. The array is embedded on a surface area of a handheld device. The array includes a number of electrode tiles. The electrodes include biosensors to collect the physiological data of a user. The electrodes are polled to detect contact with the user's skin. Electrodes in contact with the skin are electrically coupled to form an active electrode area. The coupled electrodes collect the physiological data relating to the user via the biosensors. The electrodes are decoupled after contact with the user's skin is terminated. The physiological data is analyzed and an emotional state or health state of the user is determined from the analyzed data. | 04-04-2013 |
20130241718 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SELECTIVELY CONTROLLING AND VARYING SURFACE TEXTURE AND/OR FORCE LEVELS ON A MOBILE DEVICE USING HAPTIC FEEDBACK - Mobile devices having haptic interfaces located on an edge or back of mobile phones for selectively controlling and varying surface texture and/or force levels are provided. The haptic interfaces may allow for haptic interaction with the user of the mobile device when audio or visual feedback is not practical. The haptic interface may be an electro-mechanical system that may include a matrix or array of individually addressable actuators that can convey haptic information through the deformation of a flexible surface or membrane covering the array of individually addressable actuators. The array of “individually addressable” actuators may provide each actuator the ability to be separately addressable or addressable as a group (i.e. two or more) actuators. | 09-19-2013 |
20130317318 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ACQUIRING ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY - Handheld devices using an array of stainless steel electrodes located on an edge and/or back of the handheld devices for acquiring electrodermal activity are provided. The stainless steel electrode array may allow for the skin conductance level (SCL) or skin conductance response (SCR) on an individual to be measured and collected. The skin conductance signal may be related to sympathetic nervous system activity which is a major component of human emotion, known as arousal, or emotional intensity such as anxiety, stress, fear, or excited, etc. | 11-28-2013 |
20140195163 | PROCESSING OF SKIN CONDUCTANCE SIGNALS TO MITIGATE NOISE AND DETECT SIGNAL FEATURES - Methods, systems, and devices are described for identifying noisy regions in a skin conductance signal. The signal is divided into a plurality of windows. Two or more features of the signal within a first window are computed. At least one of the two or more features being in a frequency domain. At least two of the features are combined to obtain at least a first metric. The first metric is compared to a corresponding threshold. The first window is identified as a noisy region of the skin conductance signal based on the comparison. | 07-10-2014 |
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20150213245 | DYNAMIC KEYBOARD AND TOUCHSCREEN BIOMETRICS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward providing ongoing authentication using biometric data. Fingerprints and/or other biometric data can be captured during the normal use of an electronic device, such as typing on a keyboard, and compared with associated reference biometrics to provide ongoing authentication to an application while the electronic device is being used. Comparison results may further be combined with additional physiological or behavioral biometrics to determine a level of authentication encompassing multiple biometric inputs and/or types. | 07-30-2015 |
20150319153 | SENSORY OUTPUT FOR IMAGE ASSOCIATION - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for authenticating users using the haptic, aural, and/or olfactory association processing channels that are unique to humans are presented. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes displaying a plurality of images and generating a sensory output, wherein the sensory output includes a tactile sensation that corresponds to one of the plurality of images. The method further includes receiving input corresponding to a selection of an image of the plurality of images and determining whether the selected image matches the one of the plurality of images for which the sensory output corresponds. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING HAPTIC FEEDBACK - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for adjusting the manner in which haptic feedback is provided to the user based on physical characteristics of the user. Physical characteristics may include stable physical characteristics that are non-changing with respect to a level of physical activity of the user. Examples of such stable physical characteristics may include age, gender, race, visual impairments and/or other physical characteristics. In some embodiments, the mobile device may adjust the haptic feedback by adjusting the intensity of the haptic feedback, frequency of the haptic feedback, duration for which the haptic feedback is provided to the user and changing a type of haptic feedback provided to the user of the device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150334292 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC FEEDBACK TO ASSIST IN CAPTURING IMAGES - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing haptic feedback to assist in capturing images are presented. In some embodiments, a method for providing haptic feedback to assist in capturing images includes obtaining, via an image capture device, an ambient light measurement of an environment in which the image capture device is present. The method further includes detecting, via the image capture device, one or more objects within one or more image frames captured by the image capture device. The method also includes changing, via the image capture device, a manner in which haptic feedback is provided to a user of the image capture device, based at least in part on the obtained ambient light measurement and the detected one or more objects. | 11-19-2015 |
20150363585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIOMETRIC-BASED SECURITY USING CAPACITIVE PROFILES - A biometric security method and apparatus for a capacitive sensor system is provided herein, where the method may include capturing a set of raw capacitive frames for a body part via the capacitive sensor system, wherein each raw capacitive frame includes a distribution of a plurality of capacitance levels measured from the body part; creating a capacitive profile based on the set of raw capacitive frames; comparing a first value in the capacitive profile to a second value in a biometric template generated from an enrolled body part, wherein the first value and the second value are located at a similar location with respect to the capacitive profile; and, generating an authentication signal based on a difference between the first value and the second value. | 12-17-2015 |
20150381614 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING BIOMETRICS FOR CONTENT SHARING - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for biometric based media data sharing. The method may include initiating, in a first device, biometric data capture of a user based, at least in part, on playback of media data by the first device. The method may also include determining that captured biometric data of the user does not correspond with biometric data associated with an authorized user of the first device. Furthermore, the method may also include in response to a failure to match the captured biometric data by the first device, establishing that the user is an authorized user of a second device based, at least in part, on the captured biometric data. The method may also include sharing the media data with the second device. | 12-31-2015 |
20160080552 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USER FEATURE TRACKING ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for automatically configuring a mobile device based on user feature data. A mobile device can detect a change in orientation from a first to a second orientation based on images captured with a touchscreen of the mobile device. The device may then apply a first configuration to the mobile device when the mobile device is in the second orientation. The detection of the second orientation may include capturing a first image and a second image and extracting user feature data from the images. Once a shift in the extracted user feature data above a threshold indicating motion is detected, the first configuration may then be applied to a mobile device. A third image may also be captured, and if a shift back is detected, an initial configuration may be restored. | 03-17-2016 |
20160109969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING TOUCH ORIENTATION TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN USERS OF A TOUCH PANEL - Methods, devices, and computer program products for using touch orientation to distinguish between users are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method of identifying a user of a touch device from a plurality of users of the touch device is described. The method includes receiving touch data from a touch panel of the touch device, the touch data indicating a user's touch on the touch screen. The method further includes determining an orientation of the user's touch based on the received touch data. Finally, the method includes identifying the user of the plurality of users which touched the device, based at least in part on the orientation of the touch. | 04-21-2016 |