Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces
    2.
    发明授权
    Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces 有权
    提供人机界面的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US06540141B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-01

    申请号:US10177738

    申请日:2002-06-20

    IPC分类号: G06K710

    摘要: The present invention teaches a variety of methods and systems for providing computer/human interfaces. According to one method, the user interfaces with an electronic device such as a computer system by engaging a sensor with desired regions of an encoded physical medium. The encoded physical medium is preferably chosen to provide intuitive meaning to the user, and is thus an improved metaphor for interfacing with the computer system. Suitable examples of the encoded physical medium include a data-linked book magazine, globe, or article of clothing. Some or all of the selected regions have had certain information encoded therein, information suitable for interfacing and controlling the computer system. When the user engages the sensor with a region having a certain encoded information, the certain encoded information is interpreted and an appropriate action taken. For example, the sensor or the computer system may provide suitable feedback to the user. The encoded physical medium may have test and/or graphic illustrations that draw the user in or provide meaningful clues or instructions perhaps related to the encoded information. The sensor may have at least one identification number (ID) providing information such as user identity, sensor type, access type, or language type. The sensor can transmit the certain decoded information together with the at least one ID to the computer system.

    摘要翻译: 本发明教导了用于提供计算机/人类接口的各种方法和系统。 根据一种方法,用户通过将传感器与编码的物理介质的期望区域接合而与诸如计算机系统的电子设备接口。 编码的物理介质优选地被选择以向用户提供直观的含义,因此是用于与计算机系统接口的改进的比喻。 编码物理介质的合适实例包括数据链接的书籍杂志,地球仪或服装。 部分或全部所选择的区域已经在其中编码了某些信息,适合于连接和控制计算机系统的信息。 当用户使用具有特定编码信息的区域接合传感器时,解释特定编码信息并采取适当的动作。 例如,传感器或计算机系统可以向用户提供合适的反馈。 编码的物理介质可以具有绘制用户的测试和/或图示,或提供可能与编码信息相关的有意义的线索或指令。 传感器可以具有提供诸如用户身份,传感器类型,访问类型或语言类型之类的信息的至少一个标识号(ID)。 该传感器可以将该解码信息与该至少一个ID一起发送到该计算机系统。

    Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces
    4.
    发明授权
    Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces 失效
    提供人机界面的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US06518950B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-02-11

    申请号:US08946327

    申请日:1997-10-07

    IPC分类号: G06K710

    摘要: The present invention teaches a variety of methods and systems for providing computer/human interfaces. According to one method, the user interfaces with an electronic device such as a computer system by engaging a sensor with desired regions of an encoded physical medium. The encoded physical medium is preferably chosen to provide intuitive meaning to the user, and is thus an improved metaphor for interfacing with the computer system. Suitable examples of the encoded physical medium include a data-linked book, magazine, globe, or article of clothing. Some or all of the selected regions have had certain information encoded therein, information suitable for interfacing and controlling the computer system. When the user engages the sensor with a region having certain encoded information, the certain encoded information is interpreted and an appropriate action taken. For example, the sensor or the computer system may provide suitable feedback to the user. The encoded physical medium may have text and/or graphic illustrations that draw the user in or provide meaningful clues or instructions perhaps related to the encoded information. One scheme for storing the certain encoded data is a spectral encoding scheme. In a preferred embodiment, the spectral encoding scheme uses red, green, blue (RGB). The content is encoded according to the intensities of the RGB colors within the hot spot. In another embodiment, a marker color is inserted into the hot spot to indicate that content is encoded therein.

    摘要翻译: 本发明教导了用于提供计算机/人类接口的各种方法和系统。 根据一种方法,用户通过将传感器与编码的物理介质的期望区域接合而与诸如计算机系统的电子设备接口。 编码的物理介质优选地被选择以向用户提供直观的含义,因此是用于与计算机系统接口的改进的比喻。 编码物理介质的合适实例包括数据链接的书籍,杂志,地球仪或服装。 部分或全部所选择的区域已经在其中编码了某些信息,适合于连接和控制计算机系统的信息。 当用户使用具有特定编码信息的区域接合传感器时,解释特定编码信息并采取适当的动作。 例如,传感器或计算机系统可以向用户提供合适的反馈。 编码的物理介质可以具有绘制用户的文本和/或图示,或提供可能与编码信息相关的有意义的线索或指令。 用于存储某些编码数据的一种方案是频谱编码方案。 在优选实施例中,频谱编码方案使用红色,绿色,蓝色(RGB)。 内容根据热点内的RGB颜色的强度进行编码。 在另一个实施例中,将标记颜色插入到热点中以指示内容在其中被编码。

    Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces
    5.
    发明授权
    Methods and systems for providing human/computer interfaces 有权
    提供人机界面的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US06439459B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-08-27

    申请号:US09721032

    申请日:2000-11-24

    IPC分类号: G06K710

    摘要: The present invention teaches a variety of methods and systems for providing computer/human interfaces. According to one method, the user interfaces with an electronic device such as a computer system by engaging a sensor with desired regions of an encoded physical medium. The encoded physical medium is preferably chosen to provide intuitive meaning to the user, and is thus an improved metaphor for interfacing with the computer system. Suitable examples of the encoded physical medium include a data-linked book, magazine, globe, or article of clothing. Some or all of the selected regions have had certain information encoded therein, information suitable for interfacing and controlling the computer system. When the user engages the sensor with a region having certain encoded information, the certain encoded information is interpreted and an appropriate action taken. For example, the sensor or the computer system may provide suitable feedback to the user. The encoded physical medium may have text and/or graphic illustrations that draw the user in or provide meaningful clues or instructions perhaps related to the encoded information. The sensor may have at least one identification number (ID) providing information such as user identity, sensor type, access type, or language type. The sensor can transmit the certain decoded information together with the at least one ID to the computer system.

    摘要翻译: 本发明教导了用于提供计算机/人类接口的各种方法和系统。 根据一种方法,用户通过将传感器与编码的物理介质的期望区域接合而与诸如计算机系统的电子设备接口。 编码的物理介质优选地被选择以向用户提供直观的含义,因此是用于与计算机系统接口的改进的比喻。 编码物理介质的合适实例包括数据链接的书籍,杂志,地球仪或服装。 部分或全部所选择的区域已经在其中编码了某些信息,适合于连接和控制计算机系统的信息。 当用户使用具有特定编码信息的区域接合传感器时,解释特定编码信息并采取适当的动作。 例如,传感器或计算机系统可以向用户提供合适的反馈。 编码的物理介质可以具有绘制用户的文本和/或图示,或提供可能与编码信息相关的有意义的线索或指令。 传感器可以具有提供诸如用户身份,传感器类型,访问类型或语言类型之类的信息的至少一个标识号(ID)。 该传感器可以将该解码信息与该至少一个ID一起发送到该计算机系统。

    Display pause with elastic playback

    公开(公告)号:US5825354A

    公开(公告)日:1998-10-20

    申请号:US761117

    申请日:1996-12-05

    摘要: The invention enables the display of an image to be paused, then, at the end of the pause, resumed at an accelerated rate until a time at which the content of the display corresponds to the content that would have been displayed had the image been displayed at the normal display rate without the pause, at which time display of the image at the normal display rate resumes. The invention can be used with display systems that display pre-recorded images (such as are found on video or audio cassettes, or video or audio compact discs, for example) or with display systems that display images based upon display data that is only momentarily available to the display system (such as occurs in the display of television or radio broadcasts). The invention can be used with either analog or digital display systems. Further, the invention can be used with any type of image display, such as, for example, audio displays, video displays or audiovisual displays. The invention enables a great deal of flexibility in observing the display of an image, allowing a user to pause and resume the display as desired, without having to spend more time to view the displayed image than would otherwise be the case, and without missing any part of the displayed image.

    Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data
    10.
    发明授权
    Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data 失效
    浏览器用于浏览一系列信息,特别适用于浏览视听数据所代表的信息

    公开(公告)号:US06263507B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-07-17

    申请号:US08761030

    申请日:1996-12-05

    IPC分类号: H04N7173

    摘要: The invention facilitates and enhances review of a body of information (that can be represented by a set of audio data, video data, text data or some combination of the three), enabling the body of information to be quickly reviewed to obtain an overview of the content of the body of information and allowing flexibility in the manner in which the body of information is reviewed. In a particular application of the invention, the content of audiovisual news programs is acquired from a first set of one or more information sources (e.g., television news programs) and text news stories are acquired from a second set of one or more information sources (e.g., on-line news services or news wire services). In such a particular application, the invention can enable the user to access the news stories of audiovisual news programs in a random manner so that the user can move quickly among news stories or news programs. The invention can also enable the user to quickly locate news stories pertaining to a particular subject. Additionally, when the user is observing a particular news story in a news program, the invention can identify and display related news stories. The invention can also enable the user to control the display of the news programs by, for example, speeding up the display, causing a summary of one or more news stories to be displayed, or pausing the display of the news stories. Additionally, the invention can indicate to the user which news story is currently being viewed, as well as which news stories have previously been viewed.

    摘要翻译: 本发明有助于和增强对一组信息(可以由一组音频数据,视频数据,文本数据或三者的一些组合来表示)的审查,使得能够快速地审查信息的主体以获得 信息内容的内容,并允许审查信息的方式的灵活性。 在本发明的特定应用中,从第一组一个或多个信息源(例如,电视新闻节目)中获取视听新闻节目的内容,并且从第二组一个或多个信息源获取文本新闻故事( 例如在线新闻服务或新闻线服务)。 在这样的具体应用中,本发明能够使用户以随机的方式访问视听新闻节目的新闻故事,使得用户可以在新闻故事或新闻节目中快速移动。 本发明还可以使用户能够快速定位与特定主题有关的新闻故事。 此外,当用户在新闻节目中观察特定的新闻故事时,本发明可以识别和显示相关的新闻故事。 本发明还能够使用户通过例如加速显示来控制新闻节目的显示,导致显示一个或多个新闻的摘要,或者暂停显示新闻故事。 此外,本发明可以向用户指示当前正在观看哪个新闻故事,以及先前已经看过哪些新闻故事。