Samsung patents projector that places foot controls where you step
This filing describes a device with a sensor and projector that tracks how a person walks to predict their next step. It then projects a touchable interface onto the floor right in front of the user's dominant foot, allowing them to interact with it by stepping on it.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic apparatus includes a projector, a sensor, memory storing instructions, and least one processor. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic apparatus to, based on identifying that a user is moving, obtain a walking pattern and a predicted moving path based on a location and a moving direction of the user that are obtained through the sensor, obtain a projection location of a user interface (UI) corresponding to a foot interaction based on the walking pattern and the predicted moving path, and project, by the projector, the UI corresponding to the foot interaction based on the projection location and a location of a dominant foot of the user, wherein the dominant foot of the user is identified based on a use pattern obtained through performing of a function corresponding to the foot interaction.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a sensor; a projector; memory storing instructions; and at least one processor including processing circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic apparatus to: based on identifying that a user is moving, obtain a walking pattern and a predicted moving path based on a location and a moving direction of the user that are obtained through the sensor, obtain a projection location of a user interface (UI) corresponding to a foot interaction based on the walking pattern and the predicted moving path, and project, by the projector, the UI corresponding to the foot interaction based on the projection location and a location of a dominant foot of the user, and wherein the dominant foot of the user is identified based on a use pattern obtained through performing of a function corresponding to the foot interaction.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260329418A1
- Application number
- 19680414
- Filed
- May 18, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/0484 Physics & computingG06F 3/011 Physics & computingH04N 9/3194 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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