User interactive living organisms

摘要

Embodiments described herein use capacitive sensing to detect human interaction with living plants. A sensing system may utilize the natural conductive paths found in an organic plant to transmit an electrical signal between the plant and a user interacting with the plant. By directly contacting the plant or coming into proximity of the plant, the user may affect the electrical signal. That is, the electrical properties of the user (e.g., the capacitance of the human body) change a measured impedance curve associated with the electrical signal. Based on this change, the sensing system detects an interaction between the user and the plant and may inform a user interaction device to provide a feedback response to the user. For example, the feedback response may be an audio or video effect that is based on the type of user interaction such as whether the user touched the plant's leaf or stem.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
transmitting an alternating current (AC) signal at two different frequencies in an organic plant; measuring an impedance curve by scanning the AC signal through a frequency range comprising the two different frequencies; detecting a change in the impedance curve based on measuring impedance values at the two different frequencies, wherein the change in the impedance curve is caused by a subject becoming electrically coupled to the organic plant; correlating the impedance curve to one or more predefined impedance curves, each predefined impedance curve corresponding to a particular action performed by the subject; identifying an action performed by the subject based on the change in the impedance curve, wherein the particular action corresponding to the predefined impedance curve that correlates to the impedance curve is the identified action; and providing a feedback response to the subject based on the identified action.