Efficient gesture processing

A mobile computing device comprising:

• a motion sensor;
• a memory;
• at least one processor;
• an algorithm selection module, stored in the memory and executed via the at least one processor, to select a subset of one or more gesture recognition algorithms from a plurality of gesture recognition algorithms based, at least in part, on an amplitude of a data from the motion sensor;
• and
• a gesture recognition module, stored in the memory and executed via the at least one processor, to determine a gesture from the data from the motion sensor based, at least in part, on applying the subset of gesture recognition algorithm(s) to the data from the motion sensor.

A machine-implemented method comprising:

• receiving data from a motion sensor;
• selecting a subset of one or more gesture recognition algorithms from a plurality of gesture recognition algorithms based, at least in part, on an amplitude of the data;
• and
• determining a gesture from the data based, at least in part, on applying the subset of gesture recognition algorithm(s) to the data.