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Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2013
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hayes Solos Raffle, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Chun Yat Frank Li, Moutain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein may help to provide a wake-up mechanism for a computing device. An example method involves, the computing device: (a) receiving head-movement data that is indicative of head movement; (b) detecting at least a portion of the head-movement data that is indicative of a head gesture; (c) receiving eye-position data that is indicative of eye position; (d) detecting at least a portion of the eye-position data that is indicative of an eye being directed towards a display of a head-mounted device (HMD); and (e) causing the HMD to switch from a first operating mode to a second operating mode in response to the detection of both: (i) the eye-movement data that is indicative of an eye directed towards the display, and (ii) the head-movement data indicative of the head gesture.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Raffle, Hayes. (2016). Using head gesture and eye position to wake a head mounted device (U.S. Patent No. 9285872). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9285872

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