Systems and methods for performing a device action based on a detected gesture

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9020194-B2
Application number	US-201313918078-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2013
Priority date	Jun 14, 2013
Publication date	Apr 28, 2015
Grant date	Apr 28, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods for performing an action based on a detected gesture are provided. The systems and methods provided herein may detect a direction of an initial touchless gesture and process subsequent touchless gestures based on the direction of the initial touchless gesture. The systems and methods may translate a coordinate system related to a user device and a gesture library based on the detected direction such that subsequent touchless gestures may be processed based on the detected direction. The systems and methods may allow a user to make a touchless gesture over a device to interact with the device independent of the orientation of the device since the direction of the initial gesture can set the coordinate system or context for subsequent gesture detection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for performing an action, comprising:
detecting, by a first gesture detection sensor coupled to or integrated in a device, motion of a control object moving over the device;
determining, by one or more processors of the device, a direction of movement of the control object;
translating a coordinate system related to the device based on the determined direction of movement;
translating an expected gesture to the translated coordinate system;…

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Gupta Samir K
• Keating Virginia Walker
• Hildreth Evan R

Classifications

• G06F3/017 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0304

  Physics · mapped topic