Camera-detected touch input
AssigneeAstro HQ LLC
InventorsGiovanni Donelli, Thomas Court, Matt Ronge
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Abstract
Disclosed in some examples are computing devices, methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that detect touch events on a camera lens of a digital video camera of a computing device. The computing devices monitor the images produced by the digital video camera and detect when a user has placed their finger (and in some examples, another object) onto the camera lens. This action is registered as a touch event. The detected touch events may be simple events, such as a press event (e.g., the user puts their finger on the lens where the camera lens is treated as a “virtual” button), or more advanced events, such as gestures. Example gestures include scrolling, pinching, zooming, and the like.
Claims20
A computing device, comprising:
- a processor;
- a digital video camera communicatively connected to the processor;
- a memory, storing instructions, which when performed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- determining that a lens of the digital video camera was at least partially touched by a human finger;
- and
- responsive to determining that the lens of the digital video camera was touched by the human finger, recognizing a touch event in an application running on the processor.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising instructions, which when performed by a machine, causes the machine to perform operations of:
- determining that a lens of a digital video camera was at least partially touched by a human finger;
- and
- responsive to determining that the lens of the digital video camera was touched by the human finger, recognizing a touch event in an application.
A method, performed by a processor of a computing device, the method comprising:
- determining that a lens of a digital video camera was at least partially touched by a human finger;
- and
- responsive to determining that the lens of the digital video camera was touched by the human finger, recognizing a touch event in an application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.