Electronic apparatus and method of detecting tap operation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10241564-B2
Application number	US-201414895887-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 27, 2014
Priority date	Jun 7, 2013
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

To provide an electronic apparatus, a method of detecting a tap operation, etc. for performing appropriate detection processing of a tap operation. The electronic apparatus includes a setting unit 110 that sets a sampling frequency for acceleration detection of an acceleration sensor 10 , a processing unit 120 that performs a determination of a tap operation based on sensor information from the acceleration sensor 10 , an operation information acquisition unit 130 that acquires operation information from an operation unit 140 , and a communication unit 150 that performs communication processing of information, wherein, when reception of the information by the communication unit 150 is detected or when acquisition of the operation information by the operation information acquisition unit 130 is detected, the setting unit 110 sets the sampling frequency to F2 as a higher frequency than the sampling frequency F1 before detection.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a setting unit that sets a sampling frequency for acceleration detection of an acceleration sensor;
a processing unit that performs a determination of a tap operation based on sensor information from the acceleration sensor;
an operation information acquisition unit that acquires operation information from an operation unit;
a communication unit that performs communication processing of information; and
a biological information detection sensor that detects biological information,
wherein, when reception of the information by the communication unit is detected or when acquisition of the operation information by the operation information acquisition unit is detected, the setting unit sets the sampling frequency to F2 as a higher frequency than the sampling frequency F1 before detection, and
wherein the processing unit performs correction processing on biological information from the biological information detection sensor based on body motion information as the sensor information from the acceleration sensor, and performs a determination of the tap operation based on the sensor information from the acceleration sensor.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing unit performs mode switching processing of an operation mode of the electronic apparatus, and
the setting unit performs a setting of changing the sampling frequency from F1 to F2 when the mode switching processing of switching the operation mode of the electronic apparatus from a first mode to a second mode based on the operation information in the processing unit.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the first mode is an information display mode for displaying information,
the second mode is an information input mode for receiving external input of information, and
the setting unit performs a setting of changing the sampling frequency from F1 to F2 when the mode switching processing of switching the operation mode of the electronic apparatus from the information display mode to the information input mode based on the operation information in the processing unit.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising a display control unit that performs display control of information in a display unit,
wherein, when the operation mode is the information input mode, the processing unit performs a determination of the tap operation based on the sensor information from the acceleration sensor in which the sampling frequency is set to F2, and the display control unit performs the display control of transitioning a displayed image displayed on the display unit when the tap operation is detected in the processing unit.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein, when the operation mode is the information input mode and acquisition of the operation information is not detected and the tap operation is not detected in the processing unit for a given period, the processing unit performs the mode switching processing of switching the operation mode from the information input mode to the information display mode, and the setting unit performs a setting of changing the sampling frequency from F2 to F1.

6. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a setting unit that sets a sampling frequency for acceleration detection of an acceleration sensor;
a processing unit that performs a determination of a tap operation based on sensor information from the acceleration sensor; and
a wearing determination unit that determines a wearing state of the electronic apparatus,
wherein, when the electronic apparatus is determined to be in a non-wearing state, the setting unit sets the sampling frequency to F1 as a lower frequency than the sampling frequency F2 before determination.

7. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a setting unit that sets a sampling frequency for acceleration detection of an acceleration sensor and a threshold value for determination of a tap operation; and
a processing unit that performs a determination of the tap operation based on sensor information from the acceleration sensor,
wherein the setting unit sets the sampling frequency to F1 and sets the threshold value to Th1 in a first set mode of the acceleration sensor, and sets the sampling frequency to F2 as a higher frequency than F1 and sets the threshold value to Th2 as a larger value than Th1 in a second set mode of the acceleration sensor.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7 , further comprising a biological information detection sensor that detects biological information,
wherein the processing unit performs correction processing on biological information from the biological information detection sensor based on body motion information as the sensor information from the acceleration sensor, and performs a determination of the tap operation based on the sensor information from the acceleration sensor.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the setting unit sets the set mode of the acceleration sensor to the second set mode when a user wearing the electronic apparatus is in a motion state.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the setting unit sets the first set mode in an information display mode for displaying information, and sets the second set mode in an information input mode for receiving external input of information.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 10 , further comprising a display control unit that performs display control of information in a display unit,
wherein, when the acceleration sensor is set in the second set mode corresponding to the information input mode by the setting unit, the processing unit performs a determination of the tap operation based on the sensor information from the acceleration sensor in which the sampling frequency is set to F2 and the threshold value is set to Th2, and the display control unit performs the display control of transitioning a displayed image displayed on the display unit when the tap operation is detected in the processing unit.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processing unit performs a determination of the tap operation based on at least one comparison processing of comparison processing between a signal value in a positive direction in predetermined axis directions of the acceleration sensor and Th+ as the threshold value in the positive direction and comparison processing between the signal value in a negative direction in the predetermined axis directions of the acceleration sensor and Th− as the threshold value in the negative direction.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7 , further comprising a wearing determination unit that determines a wearing state of the electronic apparatus,
wherein, when the electronic apparatus is determined to be in a non-wearing state, the setting unit sets the acceleration sensor in a third set mode in which a value of the sampling frequency is F0 as a lower frequency than F1.

14. A method of detecting a tap operation comprising:
performing setting processing of setting a sampling frequency for acceleration detection of an acceleration sensor;
performing tap determination processing of determining a tap operation based on sensor information from the acceleration sensor with the set sampling frequency;
detecting biological information with a biological information detection sensor; and
performing correction processing on biological information from the biological information detection sensor based on body motion information as the sensor information from the accelerat

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Nakagawa Ryo
• Takano Yuichi
• Otsuka Junichi

Classifications

• G06F3/0416

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• G06F3/002 Primary

  Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 (other optical apparatus G02B27/00) · CPC title

• G06F1/1694

  the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer · CPC title

• G06F1/325

  Power saving in peripheral device · CPC title

• G06F1/163 Primary

  Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt · CPC title