Proximity sensor and method for indicating extended interface results

A proximity sensor device, the proximity sensor device comprising:

• a sensor, the sensor adapted to detect motion across a sensing region;
• and
• a processor coupled to the sensor, the processor configured to:
• distinguish between detected motion of one object across the sensing region and detected motion of two adjacent objects across the sensing region;
• indicate selection with cursor movement responsive to detected motion of two adjacent objects across the sensing region;
• indicate selection without cursor movement responsive to detected motion of one object across the sensing region when the detected motion of one object across the sensing region followed the detected motion of two adjacent objects across the sensing region without an intervening termination event;
• and
• indicate further selection with cursor movement responsive to detected motion of two adjacent objects across the sensing region when the detected motion of two adjacent objects across the sensing region followed the detected motion of one object across the sensing region that followed the detected motion of the adjacent objects across the sensing region;
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• indicate cursor movement without selection responsive to detected motion of one object across the sensing region unless the detected motion of one object across the sensing region followed the detected motion of two adjacent objects across the sensing region without an intervening termination event.

A method of indicating user interface results from a sensor adapted to detect object motion proximate a sensing region, the method comprising:

• indicating a first result responsive to detected motion of a first object combination;
• indicating a second result responsive to detected motion of a second object combination;
• and
• indicating a third result responsive to detected motion of the first object combination following the detected object presence of the second object combination.

A program product comprising:

• a) a proximity sensor program, the proximity sensor program adapted to detect object motion proximate a sensing region in a proximity sensor device, the proximity sensor device further adapted to distinguish between detected motion of a first object combination and detected motion of a second object combination;
• indicate a first result responsive to detected motion of the first object combination;
• indicate a second result responsive to detected motion of the second object combination, the second result different from the first result;
• and indicate a third result responsive to detected motion of the first object combination following the detected motion of the second object combination, the third result different from first result and the second result;
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• b) computer-readable media bearing said proximity sensor program.