Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Njin-Zu Chen

Vincentius Paulus Buil

Hendrik Roelof Stapert

Niels Nijhof

Elise Claude Valentine Talgorn

Johan Partomo Djajadiningrat

Jia Du

Aaldert Jan Elevelt

Ralph Theodorus Hubertus Maessen

Yi Zhang

Iulia Dobai

Monica Tavanti

Dennis Omer Logghe

Marleen Johanna Jacoba Van Leengoed

Annemarie Christin Yvonne Van Asbeck-Metselaar

Ramon Quido Erkamp

Sibo Li

Kunal Vaidya

Molly Lara Flexman

Ameet Kumar Jain

Alvin Chen

Shyam Bharat

Alyssa Torjesen

Raymond Chan

A method and apparatus for operating a device by controlling the device based on input received from group members, uses a sensor for monitoring each group member for detecting an instruction provided by a group member. The instruction includes a visual or audible instruction. Upon detecting, a controller associates a control command with the instruction. The controller provides the control command to the device. For establishing the group, an authentication is performed for adding a user as a group member. For identifying the control command, the detected instruction is associated with the instructing group member, where the member profile is accessed from a memory including a set of reference instructions, and the instruction is matched with a reference instruction selected from the set of reference instructions in the profile.

Method of and apparatus for operating a device by members of a group

An apparatus () for rotating objects () on screens () defines a hand axis () in response to 3D position information related to the hands () of a user and detects a changed orientation of the hand axis () with respect to a 3D space and calculates a rotation for the object () on the screen () in response to said detecting. This way, to rotate the object () on the screen (), an imaginary copy of the object () is considered to be inside an imaginary ball () held by the user, which imaginary ball () is being rotated. The changed orientation of the hand axis () comprises changes in angles between the hand axis () and the axes () of the 3D space. To improve stability in case of each one of said changes being unequal to zero, the apparatus () further detects the angles and compares the respective angles with respective thresholds and reduces or weights the respective changes in response to respective comparison results.

Rotating an object on a screen

The invention relates to a system () for automating adjustment or adaptation of devices (-) such as light, computer programs and positioning of devices used during patient examination. The patient examination is performed by use of a scanner system where the patient is lying on a bed () which can be moved into a scanner zone of the scanner where the scanning can be performed and away from the scanner zone. The automated control is achieved by detecting the position of the bed and using the detected position for adjusting or adapting the state, i.e. the function or working of one or more devices (-).

Clinical ambient control system

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