Electronic device having capacitance-based force sensing for user interface input

    公开(公告)号:US11763177B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US16883264

    申请日:2020-05-26

    CPC classification number: G06N5/04 A63F13/214 G01L1/142 G06F3/0487 G06N20/00

    Abstract: An electronic device includes a capacitive driver that is electrically coupled to a pair of conductive plates coupled to a housing and electrically isolated by a dielectric material. The conductive plates are positioned to change relative orientation in relation to deformation of the housing in a first direction. A controller identifies a first capacitance of the pair of conductive plates associated with the housing being in a normal alignment relative to the first direction. The controller presents an object on a user interface device in a first kinematic state. The controller detects, via the first capacitor driver, a change in capacitance from the first capacitance to a second capacitance of the pair of conductive plates. The controller associates the change to a first user input. The controller presents the object on the user interface device in a second kinematic state based on the first user input.

    Methods and systems for unmanned aircraft monitoring in response to Internet-of-things initiated investigation requests

    公开(公告)号:US11049404B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16269432

    申请日:2019-02-06

    Abstract: An Internet-of-things device can detect, using one or more sensors, a condition exceeding a predefined condition threshold. If the condition is occurring at a location outside of an area monitored by the sensors of the Internet-of-things device, a communication device can transmit an investigation request to an unmanned aircraft. The investigation request can include a request to monitor an environment at the location. The Internet-of-things device can then receive an event report identifying whether a class of event is or was occurring at the location from the unmanned aircraft. The event report can include one or more event labels. The Internet-of-things device can transform, with an artificial intelligence engine, the one or more event labels into machine learned knowledge in an Internet-of-things knowledge domain.

    Generating action suggestions based on a change in user mood

    公开(公告)号:US11507855B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US16362454

    申请日:2019-03-22

    Abstract: In aspects of generating action suggestions based on a change in user mood, a computing device implements an action generation module that generates action suggestions. The action generation module analyzes sensor data from sensors to determine a current user state associated with a user. The action generation module also analyzes environment data received from Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to determine a current environment context associated with the user. The action generation module can detect a change in a user mood based on a comparison of the current user state with user history data that includes user state parameters and environment context parameters that indicate the user mood. The action generation module can analyze the user history data to determine the user state parameters and/or the environment context parameters that correlate to the change in the user mood, and generate an action suggestion that is intended to modify the current user state.

    Speech recognition system providing seclusion for private speech transcription and private data retrieval

    公开(公告)号:US11031010B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-08

    申请号:US16502883

    申请日:2019-07-03

    Abstract: A method includes receiving a voice input via a microphone of an electronic device, and determining whether the voice input contains speech from an authorized user of the electronic device or speech from an unauthorized user. The method includes in response to determining that the voice input contains speech from the authorized user: determining whether the speech contains private speech or public speech; in response to determining that the speech contains private speech, processing the voice input through a local automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine within the electronic device, the local ASR engine converting the voice input from audio format to text format and outputting a text transcription of the private speech; and in response to determining that the speech does not contain private speech, forwarding the voice input through a communication interface associated with a network-connected external device for processing the voice input at the network-connected external device.

    Methods and devices for precluding touch initiated control operations during three-dimensional motion

    公开(公告)号:US10983690B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US16373532

    申请日:2019-04-02

    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, one or more processors, and one or more motion sensors. The touch-sensitive display detects touch input at a surface of the touch-sensitive display, with the touch input identifying a user input command requesting performance of a control operation. The one or more motion sensors determine whether the electronic device moves in three-dimensional space while the touch input is occurring. The one or more processors preclude execution of the control operation in response to the touch input where the electronic device moved in the three-dimensional space while the touch input was occurring, thereby preventing control operations in response to inadvertent touching when the electronic device is being picked up or moved.

    Methods and Devices for Precluding Touch Initiated Control Operations During Three-Dimensional Motion

    公开(公告)号:US20200319789A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-08

    申请号:US16373532

    申请日:2019-04-02

    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, one or more processors, and one or more motion sensors. The touch-sensitive display detects touch input at a surface of the touch-sensitive display, with the touch input identifying a user input command requesting performance of a control operation. The one or more motion sensors determine whether the electronic device moves in three-dimensional space while the touch input is occurring. The one or more processors preclude execution of the control operation in response to the touch input where the electronic device moved in the three-dimensional space while the touch input was occurring, thereby preventing control operations in response to inadvertent touching when the electronic device is being picked up or moved.

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