ULTRASOUND-BASED FACIAL AND MODAL TOUCH SENSING WITH HEAD WORN DEVICE

Patent №

US 9,727,133

Granted

2017-08-08

Filed 2014

Owner

SONY CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14491084

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to analyze a characteristic of an ultrasonic signal that propagated on a face of a user of the computational device and effected by an on-body touch, by the user, in an area in which the ultrasonic signal has propagated, wherein the characteristic includes at least one of facial expression or contraction state of a facial muscle; select an input based on an analysis of the ultrasound event; and perform an action specified by the input.

Natural languageG06F 3/012G02B 27/017G06F 1/163G06F 3/011G06F 3/015G06F 3/017G06F 3/041G06F 3/0436+5 more

AI classification

Natural language0.62
AI hardware0.46
Planning0.08
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

SONY CORPORATION

assignment · 337770256

Assignors

KRISTENSSON, ANDREAS, HUNT, ALEXANDER, THÖRN, OLA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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