Granted Patent B2

US 12,596,430 · App. 19/312,777 · Granted Apr 7, 2026

Inventors: Mina Fahmi (Brooklyn, NY); Kirak Hong (Fort Lee, NJ)

Assignee: Elide Interfaces Inc.

G06F3/011G06F3/016G06F3/0346G06F3/167

Abstract

Claims (60)

1 . A system, comprising:

an annular member having a central opening;

a sensor included in the annular member and configured to detect a physical input from a user;

an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to output a signal indicative of an orientation and/or motion of the annular member in three-dimensional space;

a processor configured to:

receive an output from the sensor and the output from the IMU;

determine, based in part of the output of the IMU that the annular member is near a mouth of the user; and

in response to receiving an output from the sensor and the output from the IMU, determine a type of input primitive associated with the physical input based on the output from the sensor being received within a threshold of the output from the IMU;

a microphone included in the annular member and configured to receive audio from the user;

a communication interface included in the annular member and configured to provide the received audio to a computing device; and

a feedback indicator included in the annular member and configured to provide feedback to the user.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine that the physical input from the user is detected at the sensor;

provide, via the feedback indicator, feedback to the user indicating that the physical input was detected;

receive, via the microphone, the audio;

determine whether the physical input is still detected at the sensor; and

in response to a determination that the physical input is not detected at the sensor, provide the received audio, via the communication interface, to the computing device.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

provide, via the feedback indicator, feedback to the user indicating that the user audio has been received.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the processor is configured to:

receive, via the communication interface, a response from the computing device at the communication interface; and

provide the response to the user.

5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the response is received directly from the computing device.

6 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the response is received from the computing device via a user device.

7 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

while the response is provided to the user, determine whether the user has interrupted the response.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether the response is finished in response to a determination that the user did not interrupt the response.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to provide the response to the user in response to a determination that the response is not finished.

10 . The system of claim 7 , wherein in response to the response being interrupted, the microphone is configured to receive new user audio from the user.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device includes an artificial intelligence (AI) service which includes a large language model (LLM).

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the AI service is configured to receive and respond to multimodal inputs from the user.

13 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the annular member is worn on a first finger and the sensor is positioned and configured to receive the physical input from the user via a second finger.

14 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the feedback indicator includes a motor.

15 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the feedback indicator provides haptic feedback to the user.

16 . The system of claim 2 , further comprising a second sensor, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect, via the second sensor, a motion performed by the user; and

in response to the detection of the motion performed by the user, execute a command.

17 . A method, comprising:

detecting, by a sensor included in an annular member, a physical input from a user;

outputting, by an inertial measurement unit (IMU) included in the annular member, a signal indicative of an orientation and/or motion of the annular member in three-dimensional space;

receiving, by a processor included in the annular member, an output from the sensor and the output from the IMU;

determining, by the processor, based in part on the output of the IMU that the annular member is near a mouth of the user;

in response to receiving an output from the sensor and the output from the IMU, determining a type of input primitive associated with the physical input based on the output from the sensor being received within a threshold of the output from the IMU;

receiving, by a microphone included in the annular member, audio from the user;

providing, by a feedback indicator included in the annular member, feedback to the user; and

providing, by a communication interface included in the annular member, the received audio to a computing device.

18 . The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

determining whether the physical input is still detected by the sensor included in an annular member;

providing, via the feedback indicator, feedback to the user indicating that a physical input has been detected;

receiving, via the microphone, the audio;

determining whether the physical input is still detected at the sensor; and

in response to determining that the physical input is not detected, providing, via the communication interface included in the annular member, the received audio to a computing device.

19 . A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

detecting, by a sensor included in an annular member, a physical input from a user;

outputting, by an inertial measurement unit (IMU) included in the annular member, a signal indicative of an orientation and/or motion of the annular member in three-dimensional space;

receiving, by a processor included in the annular member, an output from the sensor and the output from the IMU;

determining, by the processor, based in part on the output of the IMU that the annular member is near a mouth of the user;

in response to receiving an output from the sensor and the output from the IMU, determining a type of input primitive associated with the physical input based on the output from the sensor being received within a threshold of the output from the IMU;

providing, by a feedback indicator included in the annular member, feedback to the user indicating that a command associated with the physical input was initiated; and

providing, by a communication interface included in the annular member, the received audio to a computing device.

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