This application relates to and has the same priority date as the following applications: U.S. patent Ser. No. 10/437,070, entitled INTERCHANGEABLE OPTICS FOR A HEAD-MOUTNED DISPLAY; U.S. patent Ser. No. 10/365,493, entitled MODULAR COMPONENTS FOR A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY; U.S. patent Ser. No. 10/620,910, entitled HANDS-FREE NAVIGATION OF TOUCH-BASED OPERATING SYSTEMS; and U.S. patent Ser. No. 10/393,312, entitled ARTICULATING COMPONENTS FOR A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY; each of which is hereby incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.
In industrial settings a user may need to provide maintenance or perform other duties associated with complex equipment and be required to consult a large amount of technical documentation, which is generally provided to a user via binders, tablets, or laptops. There are, however, inherent inefficiencies associated with methodologies involving having to navigate and find the desired information this way. Finding required content through manual navigation or through touch-based systems can be an ineffective use of time and require a user to stop and restart tasks in order to do so.
This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This summary is not intended to identify key or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.
At a high level, embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to facilitating the access and the use of electronic content on a wearable device through hands-free operation. In a situation where a user needs to easily access multiple documents or even further, multiple specific portions of multiple documents based on the context of a given situation, the methods and systems described herein provide a user to easily and efficiently navigate to specific views of content or portions of content. In various embodiments, collections of digital tags associated with content are utilized to navigate through the content. For example, based on a variety of contexts, sets of content may be prepared such that a user can easily pair down required data and navigate through only relevant documents for a given task. Thus herein is provided a contextually aware command driven navigation system for a user to navigate to various portions of documents; context is associated to a place where a user may access specific content, and based on that context specific documents or portions of documents can be retried and presented to a user. In various embodiments, a content navigation system is provided. The content navigation system generally comprising a wearable computing device with a display, a content repository comprising content, location sensors and/or transmitters and external computing devices which can be operably connected through a network. The content may include at least one associated digital tag, the digital tag associated further with a context. In various embodiments, the wearable device may be initialized and loaded, i.e. stored locally, with some content, the content including the digital tags. A digital tag may be conceptually comparable to a digital bookmark, allowing a computing device to, in a single step, advance to the marked portion of the content. The marked portion of content may be defined by any number of factors that drive viewing with a computing device, such as a particular piece of content, a page number, a zoom level, or coordinates on a page to name a few. Subsequently, a context for the wearable device is determined based on location, orientation, or other factors, and stored at the wearable device to aid in driving content navigation. Once a context for the wearable device is determined, digital tags may be presented to a user via a display that are selectable by a command, for example, a voice command. The digital tags associated with the content are presented to a user based on the determined context. As such, the context allows only certain digital tags to be presented to a user and thus allowing the user to navigate through the content based on presented digital tags. In this way the selection of one digital tag drives the presentation of another piece of content or portion of content and other associated digital tags. Further as user may add their own digital tags and annotations to content or portions of content. After use, the locally stored documents with potentially newly added information are synchronized back to a network server or content repository on the network. Subsequent users may then be able to utilize a previous user's digital tags, or in alternate embodiments, digital tags may be suggested to a subsequent user based on their prior usage in the determined context.
Additional objects, advantages, and novel features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examination of the following, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
The features of the invention noted above are explained in more detail with reference to the embodiments illustrated in the attached drawing figures, in which like reference numerals denote like elements, in which
The ability to easily and efficiently access and navigate relevant content through the use of a wearable device is an important aspect for user workflow and operation in particular scenarios, for example, in industrial applications where a user needs to navigate a potentially large volume of content quickly and while maintaining interaction with the technology while concurrently engaged in other tasks.
Utilizing a wearable device in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, such as, for example, a head-mounted computing device including a display, a user may view and navigate a large amount of documentation or other content using the display as a viewer. In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, the display acts as a window onto a larger virtual space, allowing a user to navigate to a specified page within a specific document, zoom into and out of a page achieving various levels of magnification, and utilize hands-free movements to pan longitudinally or vertically over a page to arrive at desired XY coordinate of a stationary document within the larger virtual space.
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, the navigation described above may be enhanced through the use of digital tags used in conjunction with voice commands. For example, through a voice command (i.e. natural language interaction), a user may navigate directly to a specific document (or file), page within the document, XY coordinate on the page, and a zoom level, where any combination of variables may be embedded as metadata within an associated digital tag. In this way, a user may navigate content and specific views of that content through the efficient use of digital tagging in conjunction with voice accessibility.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, location and orientation information may be utilized to further drive content navigation. For example, the digital tags as previously described may be associated with a specific place and/or orientation to provide context for a user. Using determined contextual information, a wearable device may automatically present a set or subset of digital tags for a user to navigate content with. In this way, a digital tag can be associated to the content as well as a location and direction.
As such, embodiments of the present invention are directed towards accessing and navigating content based on contextual determinations using a wearable device, for example a head-mounted computing device. In this way, aspects of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, and systems that facilitate hands-free interaction with various content and user interfaces.
The initialization engine 205 is generally responsible for facilitating communication between the user interface, a motion processing system, a sound processing system, storage, device input/output, and their respective subcomponents. The initialization engine 205 may initialize the wearable device 260 in response to receiving a signal from the wearable device I/O system 280. For example, a physical input element (such as a button, switch, or the like) may be depressed signaling that the interaction mode should start running. The device I/O system can have a plurality of modules and engines for receiving and processing input, such as commands. As such the device I/O system can allow the wearable device 260 to interact with the system. The device I/O system modules and engines can include, but is not limited to, a headset engine 281, a connectivity module 282, an image capture module 283, a motion capture module 284, an audio input/output module, a location detection module 286, and a display 287. In operable communication with the device I/O system can be one or more processing systems 270, including but not limited to a motion processing system 272 and a sound processing system 274, which can process motion and sound received in any way by the wearable device 260. As part of the initialization sequence, one or more pieces of content 255 (e.g. document files, video files) from the content repository may be loaded onto the wearable device and stored in the device library 292. Content may be loaded onto the wearable device 260 via any known data push or pull technology. In some embodiments, content is loaded onto the device based on some user data associated with a user profile 294. The device library 292 and the user profile 294 can be part of a local device storage 290. Further, in other embodiments, content loaded onto the wearable device 260 (e.g. onto the local device storage 290) can be subsequently associated with a user profile 294. In this way, for example, if the same user initializes the device, previously loaded or used content associated with the particular wearable device and/or user profile will be reloaded or reinitialized along with the wearable device 260. It will be appreciated that as long as the wearable device 260 is connected to a network 265, the wearable device is in operable communication with the content repository 250 and any other local or remote servers or computing systems 252, e.g. while the wearable device is in use a remote operator may push content to the wearable device 260 for the user. Alternatively, in some embodiments, a user operating the wearable device 260 may connect with any other local or remote servers or computing systems 252 through the headset I/O system 280, e.g. a user of a wearable device 260 may connect with an operator via streaming content.
Once the wearable device 260 is initialized, a context determination engine 210 can determine a context for the device and/or user or both. The context for the device can be based on any number of contextual identifiers, including location information and orientation information (i.e. direction in three-dimensional space r, θ, φ).
Context, in reference to the wearable device and/or user can be determined by any number of location indicators including, but not limited to: bar codes, quick response (QR) codes, Bluetooth beacons, visual machine recognition, visual object recognition, global positioning system (GPS), radio frequency identification (RFID), near field communication (NFC), WiFi, or any other known radio-based identifiers, visually-based identifiers, or inertially based identifiers, such as accelerometers or gyroscopes incorporated into a device. A location indicator (i.e. 140 of
A content retrieval engine 220 can retrieve relevant content for display to a user based on the determined context (e.g. via a display 122 of
Once the context based content is presented to a user, a navigation engine 240 can receive a command (e.g. a voice command) from a user to perform an action corresponding to a particular digital tag presented and available to a user on the display of the wearable device 260. For example, in one aspect a particular digital tag may allow a user to open a document associated with it. In another embodiment, a particular digital tag may allow a user to navigate to a specific page within a document, to a specific zoom level on a page within a document, to a specific XY coordinate on a page within a document, or a combination of any of the foregoing. As such, a document may have at least a second digital tag associated with it to drive the navigation through the document. It is to be understood that a given piece of content (or document in this example) may have any number of digital tags associated with it. Commands received by the wearable device 260 enable a user to navigate into and out of a specific document, as well as to any particular area within the document via the navigation engine 240. Based on the received commands, a user is presented with any portion of content via the user interface 230 without having to navigate through one or more file trees, for example. In operation the user interface 230 and the navigation engine 240 can work in tandem to navigate through the content and present the desired content to a user, by receiving commands selecting a digital tag and presenting the content or portions of content associated with that digital tag.
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Continuing with screen display 300c, at any point of interaction with the system and a piece of content, a user may add one or more digital tags 340c or one or more annotations 330c to the piece of content. Annotations can be, for example, written notations, sound bytes, video bytes, or any other type of annotation that can be added to the document or content. In some embodiments, an annotation can itself be associated with a digital tag, and similarly presented to a user, for example along with digital tags 310c, 320c. Upon addition, the added digital tags or added annotations may be associated with the piece of content, associated with the wearable device, associated with the user profile, or any combination of the foregoing and stored in the local device memory. In some embodiments, annotations and digital tags can be displayed simultaneously on the content; and in some instances annotations may only be visible in certain views of a piece of contents, i.e. certain pages, certain zoom levels, certain XY coordinates on a page. In other embodiments, annotations may be shown and hidden via commands received on the wearable device from a user. When the wearable device is reconnected to a network those additions and associations can synchronize to a server or other external computing system (e.g. 252 of
In some embodiments, a wearable device may record that an identified user viewed and/or accessed a piece of content or a specific portion of some content, the user may have viewed and/or accessed the content or portion of content via one or more digital tags or may have navigated there without the use of a digital tag. The wearable device may store the accessing and/or viewing as metadata on the device associated with the content, the user profile, the context the wearable device is in or any of the foregoing. The viewing and/or accessing may further be stored in association with the content in the content repository or on one or more servers or external computing systems. The content navigation system can thus track which pieces of content or portions of content have been accessed and/or viewed over time and monitor the history of users and devices, the contexts they have determined, and what content has been access when in that determined context. As such, it is possible that the content navigation system can suggest to a user one or more digital tags based on a determined context that other users have accessed. In some embodiments, a threshold can be set by a systems administrator such that the suggestions of digital tags in a particular context to subsequent users do not occur until the set threshold is met, different thresholds may be set for different contexts (e.g. locations) or for different user roles (e.g. tracking is only recorded by the system for some but not all user roles). In some embodiments, where a specific portion of content that does not have an associated digital tag is accessed and/or viewed enough times to meet the threshold for a given context, a content navigation system may automatically add a digital tag to that portion of content and associate the digital tag with that given context. The content navigation system may utilize thresholds and automated digital tagging at any level of granularity for a piece of content; i.e. the content navigation may consider the document, the specific page, the specific zoom level, the specific coordinates on the page or any combination of the forgoing.
Having described various aspects of the present disclosure, exemplary methods are described below for navigating content based on context using a wearable device. Referring to
At block 410, a wearable device can be initiated, for instance, by an I/O system of a content navigation system (e.g., content navigation system 200 of
At block 420 a context can be determined for the wearable device. In one aspect the context may be determined through the use of a location indicator (e.g. a Bluetooth beacon), an orientation indicator (e.g. a gyroscope), or a combination of the foregoing.
At block 430, one or more indications that content is available for selection is provided to a user via a display on the wearable device. The indications represent content stored in the wearable device library associated with the determined context by at least one digital tag.
At block 440, a command is received by the content navigation system to perform an action corresponding to a particular indicator, for example, selecting a particular piece of content. At block 450, content is provided to a user via a display.
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At block 520, a context is determined for the head-mounted computing device is determined. The context determined can be based on a location, an orientation, a user-role, a time or any combination of the foregoing. It is to be recognized that the head-mounted computing device can continuously determine a context based on a change in any of the above determination factors. For example, a change in the location or orientation of the head-mounted computing device will cause the content navigation system to re-determine the context of the device. In some embodiments, the context is determined once either simultaneously with or after initialization of the device, and can be changed only after a command or indication is received by the device that context may be re-determined. In some embodiments, more than one contexts may be determined.
At block 530, one or more indications that content is available for selection is provided to a user via a display on the head-mounted computing device. The indications on the display can be one or more representations or indications that an underlying digital tag associated with some content may be selected based on the determined context. In some embodiments the one or more indications represent selectable digital tags themselves. In other embodiments, the indications represent a grouping of selectable digital tags can be available and associated with one or more determined contexts. For example, at specified location and orientation, a user may view within an AR display two physical units that may drive two separate contexts, indications may be provided to the user that each physical unit is associated with at least one digital tag or a grouping of digital tags that the user may select.
At block 540, voice command is received by head-mounted computing device to select a digital tag; alternatively, the head-mounted computing device can receive a command to perform an action corresponding to the digital tag. In some embodiments, a user may select any digital tag that is presented via the display, in other embodiments, a user may see an indication that there are other digital tags, but may only select one of a sub-set of the displayed digital tags.
At block 550, a first portion of content is provided for display to the user, the first portion of content associated with the selected digital tag. Within the first portion view, other associated digital tags can be presented to a user for further navigation within the content navigation system. In this way, digital tags themselves can be related to each other and connected, when a first digital tag is selected and the content or portion of content associated with the first digital tag is presented, along with the presentation of the content or portion of content can be one or more indications that other selectable digital tags are available. In some embodiments the selection of one digital tag will drive the presentation of subsequent digital tags and their availability for selection.
At block 560, a voice command to select a second digital tag is received by head-mounted computing device. At block 570, a second portion of content is provided for display to the user, the second portion of content associated with the selected second digital tag. Within the second portion view, other associated digital tags can be presented to a user for further navigation within the content navigation system.
At block 580, a command or set of commands is received by the head-mounted computing device to navigate to a third portion of content. The command or set of commands allow a user of a head-mounted computing device to navigate through digital content freely or in an ad hoc manner. At block 590, the third portion of content is provided for display to a user. If the third portion of content has any associated digital tags, indications of those digital tags may be provided for display to the user as well.
At block 5100, a command or set of commands to add a digital tag to the third portion of content is received. At block 5110 the new digital tag is added to the third portion of content, and associated with both the third portion of content and the determined context. Further, the digital tag can also be associated with a user profile
At block 5120, the content with the digital tag is synchronized to the device library. When the head-mounted computing device is connected to a network the content with the added digital tag can be synchronized back to the content repository.
Having described embodiments of the present invention, an example operating environment in which embodiments of the present invention may be implemented is described below in order to provide a general context for various aspects of the present invention. Referring to
Embodiments of the invention may be described in the general context of computer code or machine-useable instructions, including computer-executable instructions such as program modules, being executed by a computer or other machine, such as a smartphone or other handheld device. Generally, program modules, or engines, including routines, programs, objects, components, data structures etc., refer to code that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. Embodiments of the invention may be practiced in a variety of system configurations, including hand-held devices, consumer electronics, general-purpose computers, more specialized computing devices, etc. Embodiments of the invention may also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote-processing devices that are linked through a communications network.
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Computing device 600 typically includes a variety of computer-readable media. Computer-readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by computing device 600, and includes both volatile and non-volatile media, removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computer-readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media.
Computer storage media include volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by computing device 600. Computer storage media excludes signals per se.
Communication media typically embodies computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term “modulated data signal” means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner at to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media. Combinations of any of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.
Memory 612 includes computer storage media in the form of volatile and/or non-volatile memory. As depicted, memory 612 includes instructions 624, when executed by processor(s) 614 are configured to cause the computing device to perform any of the operations described herein, in reference to the above discussed figures, or to implement any program modules described herein. The memory may be removable, non-removable, or a combination thereof. Illustrative hardware devices include solid-state memory, hard drives, optical-disc drives, etc. Computing device 600 includes one or more processors that read data from various entities such as memory 612 or I/O components 620. Presentation component(s) 616 present data indications to a user or other device. Illustrative presentation components include a display device, speaker, printing component, vibrating component, etc.
I/O ports 618 allow computing device 600 to be logically coupled to other devices including I/O components 620, some of which may be built in. Illustrative components include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, printer, wireless device, etc.
Many variations can be made to the illustrated embodiment of the present invention without departing from the scope of the present invention. Such modifications are within the scope of the present invention. Embodiments presented herein have been described in relation to particular embodiments which are intended in all respects to be illustrative rather than restrictive. Alternative embodiments and modifications would be readily apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art, but would not depart from the scope of the present invention.
From the foregoing it will be seen that this invention is one well adapted to attain all ends and objects hereinabove set forth together with the other advantages which are obvious and which are inherent to the structure. It will be understood that certain features and subcombinations are of utility and may be employed without reference to other features and subcombinations. This is contemplated by and is within the scope of the invention.
In the preceding detailed description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof wherein like numerals designate like parts throughout, and in which is shown, by way of illustration, embodiments that may be practiced. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural or logical changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the preceding detailed description is not to be taken in the limiting sense, and the scope of embodiments is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
Various aspects of the illustrative embodiments have been described using terms commonly employed by those skilled in the art to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that alternate embodiments may be practiced with only some of the described aspects. For purposes of explanation, specific numbers, materials, and configurations are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the illustrative embodiments. However, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that alternate embodiments may be practiced without the specific details. In other instances, well-known features have been omitted or simplified in order not to obscure the illustrative embodiments.
Various operations have been described as multiple discrete operations, in turn, in a manner that is most helpful in understanding the illustrative embodiments; however, the order of description should not be construed as to imply that these operations are necessarily order dependent. In particular, these operations need not be performed in the order of presentation. Further, descriptions of operations as separate operations should not be construed as requiring that the operations be necessarily performed independently and/or by separate entities. Descriptions of entities and/or modules as separate modules should likewise not be construed as requiring that the modules be separate and/or perform separate operations. In various embodiments, illustrated and/or described operations, entities, data, and/or modules may be merged, broken into further sub-parts, and/or omitted.
The phrase “in one embodiment” or “in an embodiment” is used repeatedly. The phrase generally does not refer to the same embodiment; however, it may. The terms “comprising,” “having,” and “including” are synonymous, unless the context dictates otherwise. The phrase “A/B” means “A or B.” The phrase “A and/or B” means “(A), (B), or (A and B).” The phrase “at least one of A, B, and C” means “(A), (B), (C), (A and B), (A and C), (B and C), or (A, B, and C).”
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