Detecting user intent to remove a pluggable peripheral device
AssigneePrimesense Ltd.
InventorsTamir Berliner, Jonathan Pokrass
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Abstract
A method includes receiving, from a three-dimensional (3D) sensing device coupled to a computer, a sequence of 3D maps including at least part of a hand of a user positioned in proximity to the computer. In embodiments of the present invention, the computer is coupled to one or more peripheral devices, and upon identifying, in the sequence of 3D maps, a movement of the hand toward a given peripheral device, an action preparatory to disengaging the given peripheral device is initiated.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- receiving, from a three-dimensional (3D) sensing device coupled to a computer, a sequence of 3D maps including at least part of a hand of a user positioned in proximity to the computer, the computer coupled to one or more peripheral devices;
- and
- upon identifying, in the sequence of 3D maps, a movement of the hand toward a given peripheral device, initiating an action preparatory to disengaging the given peripheral device.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a three-dimensional (3D) sensing device;
- one or more peripheral devices;
- and
- a computer coupled to the 3D sensing device and the one or more peripheral devices, and configured:
- to receive, from the 3D sensing device, a sequence of 3D maps including at least part of a hand of a user positioned in proximity to the computer, and
- upon identifying, in the sequence of 3D maps, a movement of the hand toward a given peripheral device, to initiate an action preparatory to disengaging the given peripheral device.
A computer software product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium, in which program instructions are stored, which instructions, when read by a computer executing a user interface, cause the computer:
- to receive, from a three-dimensional (3D) sensing device coupled to the computer, a sequence of 3D maps including at least part of a hand of a user positioned in proximity to the computer, the computer coupled to one or more peripheral devices;
- and
- upon identifying, in the sequence of 3D maps, a movement of the hand toward a given peripheral device, to initiate an action preparatory to disengaging the given peripheral device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.