Method for using accelerometer detected imagined key press
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsVesa Luiro, Markku Pulkkinen, Anssi Saarimaki, Antti Helander
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Abstract
A portable apparatus comprising input means arranged to receive user input comprising of one or more taps on the portable apparatus. The apparatus is able to detect the taps on the portable apparatus and to determine at least one location of the taps on the portable apparatus. The apparatus is further able to define an imaginary key on the apparatus on the determined location.
Claims21
1-38. (canceled)
A method, comprising:
- receiving user input, wherein said user input comprises one or more taps on a portable apparatus;
- detecting said one or more taps on said portable apparatus;
- determining at least one location of said one or more taps on said portable apparatus;
- and
- defining an imaginary key on said portable apparatus at said at least one determined location.
An apparatus comprising
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- receiving user input, wherein said user input comprises one or more taps on the portable apparatus;
- detecting said one or more taps on said portable apparatus;
- determining at least one location of said one or more taps on said portable apparatus;
- and
- defining an imaginary key on said apparatus at said at least one determined location.
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components comprising instructions for enabling said portable apparatus to receive user input, wherein said user input comprises one or more taps on said portable apparatus;
- detecting said one or more taps on said portable apparatus;
- determining at least one location of said one or more taps on said portable apparatus;
- and
- defining said imaginary key on said portable apparatus on said at least one determined location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.