1147 results about "Head movements" patented technology

A method for processing interactive user control with a scene of a video clip is provided. The method initiates with identifying a head of a user that is to interact with the scene of the video clip. Then, the identified head of the user is tracked during display of the video clip, where the tracking enables detection of a change in position of the head of the user. Next, a view-frustum is adjusted in accordance with the change in position of the head of the user. A computer readable media, a computing device and a system for enabling interactive user control for defining a visible volume being displayed are also included.

A digital computer and method for processing data indicative of images of facial and head movements of a subject to recognize at least one of said movements and to determine at least one mental state of said subject is provided. The outputting instructions for providing to a user information relating to at least one said mental state. A further processing data reflective of input from a user, and based at least in part on said input, confirming or modifying said determination and generating with a transducer an output of humanly perceptible stimuli indicative of said at least one mental state.

A remote control microdisplay device that uses hand movement, body gesture, head movement, head position and / or vocal commands to control the headset, a peripheral device, a remote system, network or software application, such as to control the parameters of a field of view for the microdisplay within a larger virtual display area associated with a host application, a peripheral device or host system. The movement and / or vocal commands are detected via the headset and / or detachable peripheral device connected to the headset microdisplay device via one or more peripheral ports.

A remote control microdisplay device that uses hand and head movement and voice commands to control the parameters of a field of view for the microdisplay within a larger virtual display area associated with a host application.

Sensors within the vehicle monitor driver movement, such as face and head movement to ascertain the direction a driver is looking, and gestural movement to ascertain what the driver may be pointing at. This information is combined with video camera data taken of the external vehicle surroundings. The apparatus uses these data to assist the speech dialogue processor to disambiguate phrases uttered by the driver. The apparatus can issue informative responses or control vehicular functions based on queries automatically generated based on the disambiguated phrases.

System and method for monitoring the physiological behavior of a driver that includes measuring a physiological variable of a driver, assessing a driver's behavioral parameter on the basis of at least said measured physiological variable, and informing the driver of the assessed driver's behavioral parameter. The measurement of the physiological variable can include measuring a driver's eye movement, measuring a driver's eye-gaze direction, measuring a driver's eye-closure amount, measuring a driver's blinking movement, measuring a driver's head movement, measuring a driver's head position, measuring a driver's head orientation, measuring driver's movable facial features, and measuring a driver's facial temperature image.

An augmented-reality helmet comprises a full-face motorcycle helmet with a look-down micro-display that projects a virtual image in-line with the helmet's chin bar. In order to accommodate the power requirements, the helmet includes a battery pack mounted at the base of the motorcyclist's skull. A wind turbine charges the batteries. Exhaust from the turbine is then deducted through the helmet to cool the battery pack and / or the motorcyclist's head. The turbine is controllable so that it can operate as a circulating fan to provide ventilation. A digital gyroscope provides a control input to a controller for operating a steerable headlight of the motorcycle to track the rider's head movements; and provides acceleration output to an algorithm that will contact emergency responders if the rider is non-responsive after a collision. A 170 degree rear-view camera is mounted within an aerodynamic fairing on the back of the helmet.

Golf clubs having an embedded inertial measurement unit and a corresponding microprocessor for determining the motion of the head of the golf club. Briefly described, one of a number of embodiments of a golf club comprises a 6DOF inertial measurement unit disposed within the head of the golf club and a microprocessor in communication with the 6DOF inertial measurement unit. The microprocessor is configured to receive data from the 6DOF inertial measurement unit and determine the motion of the head of the golf club.

A system for treating patients affected both by hearing loss and by balance disorders related to vestibular hypofunction and / or malfunction, which includes sensors of sound and head movement, processing circuitry, a power source, and an implantable electrical stimulator capable of stimulating areas of the cochlea and areas of the vestibular system.

A new approach to tracking head motion for headphone-based sound is described. Called MTB2.0 for “Motion-Tracked Binaural with 2 Channels”, the method may be used for any 2-channel binaural signals without any increase in the bandwidth requirement. MTB2.0 provides a simple and effective means to improve the quality of headphone-based sound reproduction by sensing the orientation of the listener's head and using the sensed orientation to appropriately modify the signals sent to the two ears. MTB2.0 method increases the realism and removes some of the shortcomings of binaural sound capture and recording, as well as improves the quality of binaural rendering of stereo.

A system that includes a desk top assembly of a display and sensors mounted on a robotic arm. The arm moves the assembly so that it remains within position and orientation tolerances relative to the user's head as the user looks around. Near-field speaker arrays supply audio and a microphone array senses a user's voice. Filters are applied to head motion to reduce latency for arm's tracking of the head. The system is full duplex with other systems allowing immersive collaboration. Lighting and sound generation take place close to the user's head. A haptic interface device allows the user to grab the display / sensor array and move it about. Motion acts as a planar selection device for 3D data. Planar force feedback allows a user to “feel” the data. Users see not only each other through display windows, but can also see the positions and orientations of each others' planar selections of shared 3D models or data.

A method and computer system for tracking eye gaze. A camera is focused on an eye of subject viewing a gaze point on a screen while directing light toward the eye. Eye gaze data pertaining to a glint and pupil image of the eye in an image plane of the camera is sampled. Eye gaze parameters are determined from the eye gaze data. The determined eye gaze parameters include: orthogonal projections of a pupil-glint displacement vector, a ratio of a major semi-axis dimension to a minor semi-axis dimension of an ellipse that is fitted to the pupil image in the image plane, an angular orientation of the major semi-axis dimension in the image plane, and mutually orthogonal coordinates of the center of the glint in the image plane. The gaze point is estimated from the eye gaze parameters.

A head mounted microdisplay (HMD) device that uses hand, body, head movement or gesture and voice commands to control interaction with a local processor or host computer. The local processor overlays information, such as onto an operating system desktop or application program menu, indicating the motion, gesture, and / or voice input needed to activate an associated action.

A harness assembly for a nasal mask for communicating breathable gas to a patient's airways, for example, in the administering of CPAP or like breathable gas delivery treatments, includes a cap portion adapted to engage, in use, the occipital region of the skull. The cap portion includes a connector at each end. The harness assembly also includes a pair of upper and lower straps, each of the straps extending between one of the cap connectors and the nasal mask. The harness assembly grips the head in a region substantially fixed relative to the face and, as such, tension of the straps is not substantially affected by head movement.

An arrangement and method for ascertaining and recording electrophysiological signals associated with a subject are provided. In particular, first (or motion) data associated with a movement of the subject from one or more motion sensors can be received. Such movement may include a head movement by the subject, swallowing by the subject, etc. The first data also can include noise associated with a blood flow motion within the subject, noise associated with a ballistocardiac motion within the subject, etc. Second data associated with intrinsic voltages measured may also be received from the subject. Then, output or result data can be calculated based on the first motion data and the second data. The output (or result data) is preferably associated with the electrophysiological signal. In an exemplary embodiment, a continuous, real time display of electrophysiological signals that is associated with the output data can be generated.

It is possible to provide a technique for accurately performing an operation desired by a user. A user's head operation is identified according to information detected by a head motion detection unit. A process desired by the user is executed according to an angular velocity of the head motion. Moreover, the technique uses a control unit which can accurately execute an operation by the user's head operation without reflecting the return motion of the user's head in the process. The control unit executes a process for a start and an end of each process corresponding to the detected angular velocity according to a predetermined threshold value.

The objective of the current invention is to restore color vision, in whole or in part, by electrically stimulating undamaged retinal cells, which remain in patients with, lost or degraded visual function. The invention is a retinal color prosthesis. Functionally, There are three main parts to this invention. One is external to the eye. The second part is internal to the eye. The third part is means for communication between those two parts. The external part has subsystems. These include an external imaging means, an eye-tracker, a head-motion tracker, a data processor, a patient's controller, a physician's local controller, a physician's remote controller, and a telemetry means. The imaging means may include a CCD or CMOS video camera. It gathers an image of what the eyes would be seeing if they were functional.Color information is acquired by the imaging means. The color data is processed in the video data processing unit. The color information is encoded by time sequences of pulses separated by varying amounts of time, and also with the pulse duration being varied in time. The basis for the color encoding is the individual color code reference. Direct color stimulation is another operational basis for providing color perception. The electrodes stimulate the target cells so as to create a color image for the patient, corresponding to the original image as seen by the video camera, or other imaging means.The physician's test unit can be used to set up or evaluate and test the implant during or soon after implantation at the patient's bedside.

The invention describes a method of determining a head-motion / gaze relationship for a user (1), which method comprises the steps of allocating at least one first target (T1) and at least one second target (T2) in a display area (D); attracting the user's gaze towards a first target (T1) and observing the user's head (H) to obtain a first head orientation measurement value (M1). The method further comprises the steps of subsequently attracting the user's gaze towards a second target (T2) and observing the user's head (H) to obtain a second head orientation measurement value (M2); and analysing the head orientation measurement values (M1, M2) to obtain a head-motion / gaze relationship (R) for that user (1). The invention further describes an interactive display system (2), and a method of performing a gaze-based interaction between a user (1) and an interactive display system (2).

The invention discloses a gaze estimation method. The gaze estimation method comprises the following steps: finding out calibration error by aligning; then estimating the distance between a face plane and a screen and establishing a three-dimensional model to obtain optical axis information of eyeballs by offset correction of the head and rotary correction of the head; and finally, obtaining the position of a fixation point. According to the gaze estimation method, only a camera is used and no auxiliary equipment is needed; the aim of furthering increasing the estimation precision is achieved by using a correction link by a user; in addition, due to the utilization of estimation of the distance between the face plane and the screen and the offset and rotation correction of the head, limiting conditions are reduced as much as possible, a comfortable use environment for a user is provided and the gaze estimation method has better precision and adaptability of the head motion; and on the basis of an eyeball of a human eye, the gaze estimation method based on a three-dimensional model is established so as to achieve the aim of increasing the estimation precision. According to the gaze estimation method, extra auxiliary equipment is reduced, the adaptability to the head motion is improved, and the better precision for sight light estimation is obtained.

A method of image processing in three-dimensional (3-D) head motion tracking is disclosed. The method includes: providing a user's source image to a first processing device; capturing the user's first image and providing it to a second processing device; selecting three facial feature points of the first image from the second processing device to form a 3-D feature triangle; capturing user's consecutive video frames and providing them to the second processing device when the user proceeds with head motions; tracking the three facial feature points corresponding to the consecutive video frames to form a series of actual 2-D feature triangle; rotating and translating the 3-D feature triangle freely to form a plurality of geometric transformations, selecting one of the geometric transformations with acceptable error between the two consecutive 2-D feature triangles, repeating the step until the last frame of the consecutive video frames and geometric transformations corresponding to various consecutive video frames are formed; and providing the geometric transformations to the first processing device to generate a head motion corresponding to the user's source image.

A system for treating patients affected both by hearing loss and by balance disorders related to vestibular hypofunction and / or malfunction, which includes sensors of sound and head movement, processing circuitry, a power source, and an implantable electrical stimulator capable of stimulating areas of the cochlea and areas of the vestibular system.

A method of controlling a machine connected to a display comprising an absolute pointing method providing a wearable apparatus (1) including an image sensor (61) worn on an operator's head (58) or ear and adjustable so that the pointing direction (57) of the image sensor (61) is congruent with the operator's focus point on said display (45) when relative head-eye movements are small. A processor (33) analyzes images (103) of the display environment taken by the image sensor (61) and determines the pointing direction (57) of the image sensor with respect to the display outline (50). The wearable apparatus (1) further includes a microphone (8) for initiating actions on said machine by audio commands. Other means for initiating actions includes detecting certain head movements and a special keyboard driver. The method further comprises means for feedback from the wearable apparatus (1) to the machine. A wireless configuration is provided, including a receiver apparatus (42) connected to the machine, where a software driver positions the pointer (51) on the display area (55) and responds to operator commands. Means for facilitating display outline recognition to increase performance and reliability is provided and consists of no more than eight infrared reflective stickers (49) placed around the perimeter of the display area (55) and an infrared source (19) located next to the image sensor (61).

A method to determine the propensity of an image-sequence to induce motion sickness in a viewer includes using a processor to analyze the image-sequence information to extract salient static and dynamic visual features in the image sequence information, evaluating distribution of the salient static and dynamic features in the saliency map to estimate a probability of the image sequence causing the viewer to make eye and head movements and, using the estimated probability to determine the propensity that the image-sequence would induce motion sickness in a user as a consequence of the eye and head movements.

The invention discloses a headphone dynamic virtual replaying method based on 5.1 channel surround sound and an implementation device of the method. According to the method, the horizontal rotation angle of the head of a listener is detected in real time through a head trace tracking module; according to the parameters, all virtual loudspeakers of a 5.1 channel are simulated dynamically in real time; afterwards, conversion is performed, so that a binaural sound signal is obtained, and real-time rendering in the horizontal direction is achieved. The applied head trace tracking module is composed of a magnetic sensor, an acceleration sensor, a single-chip microcomputer and the like. With no need for a signal transmitting device, the horizontal rotation angle of the listener is calculated according to physical information change which is caused by head movement and obtained through the magnetic sensor and the acceleration sensor. The head trace tracking module can be directly installed on a headphone and powered by a battery or a USB interface. The binaural sound signal is replayed through the headphone after being subject to headphone-auditory meatus transmission characteristic equilibrium processing, and therefore a 5.1 channel surround sound effect similar to replaying of a loudspeaker can be achieved.

A personal display system with which a user may adjust the configuration of displayed media is provided. The personal display system may include an electronic device operative to provide media to a personal display device operative to display the received media. Using one or more optical and digital components, the personal display device may adjust displayed media to overlay features of a theater, thus giving the user of the personal display device the impression of being in the theater. In some embodiments, the personal display device may receive a user selection of a seat in the theater from which to watch the media, and may adjust the media display accordingly. In some embodiments, the personal display device may detect the user's movements using one or more sensors and may adjust the displayed image based on the user's movements. For example, the device may detect a user's head movement and cause the portion of media displayed to reflect the head movement.

Techniques for performing accurate and automatic head pose estimation are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, head pose estimation is integrated with a scale-invariant head tracking method along with facial features detected from a located head in images. Thus the head pose estimation works efficiently even when there are large translational movements resulting from the head motion. Various computation techniques are used to optimize the process of estimation so that the head pose estimation can be applied to control one or more objects in a virtual environment and virtual character gaze control.