Methods and apparatuses for gesture-based user input detection in a mobile device
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsMathew William Bevilacqua, Newfel Harrat, Peter Ring
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in a mobile device to: determine whether the mobile device is in a gesture command input ready state based, at least in part, on a display portion of the mobile device remaining in a horizontal viewable position for a threshold period of time; with the mobile device in a gesture command input ready state, determine whether a detected movement of the mobile device represents a gesture command input; and in response to the determined gesture command input, affect a user perceivable output.
Claims40
A method comprising, at a mobile device:
- subsequent to initiation of a user perceivable output, determining whether said mobile device is in a gesture command input ready state based, at least in part, on a display portion of said mobile device remaining in a horizontal viewable position for a threshold period of time;
- with said mobile device in said gesture command input ready state, determining whether a detected movement of said mobile device represents a gesture command input;
- and
- in response to a determination that said detected movement represents said gesture command input, affecting said user perceivable output.
An apparatus for use in a mobile device, the apparatus comprising:
- means for initiating a user perceivable output;
- means for determining whether said mobile device is in a gesture command input ready state subsequent to initiating said user perceivable output based, at least in part, on a display portion of said mobile device remaining in a horizontal viewable position for a threshold period of time;
- means for detecting movement of said mobile device;
- means for determining whether said detected movement of said mobile device represents a gesture command input with said mobile device in said gesture command input ready state;
- and
- means for affecting said user perceivable output, in response to said determined gesture command input.
A mobile device comprising:
- one or more output devices, comprising at least a display device;
- one or more inertial sensors;
- and
- a processing unit to, subsequent to initiation of a user perceivable output via at least one of said one or more output devices;
- determine whether said mobile device is in a gesture command input ready state based, at least in part, on said display device remaining in a horizontal viewable position for a threshold period of time;
- determine whether a movement of said mobile device represents a gesture command input with said mobile device in said gesture command input ready state, said movement being based, at least in part, on at least one signal associated with at least one of said one or more said inertial sensors;
- and
- affect said user perceivable output, in response to said determined gesture command input.
An article comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein computer executable instructions executable by a processing unit of a mobile device to, subsequent to initiation of a user perceivable output:
- determine whether said mobile device is in a gesture command input ready state based, at least in part, on a display portion of said mobile device remaining in a horizontal viewable position for a threshold period of time;
- with said mobile device in said gesture command input ready state, determine whether a detected movement of said mobile device represents a gesture command input;
- and
- in response to a determination that said detected movement represents said gesture command input, affect said user perceivable output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.