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US 7,688,306 B2Granted
Methods and apparatuses for operating a portable device based on an accelerometer
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsPaul J. Wehrenberg, Aaron Leiba, Richard C. Williams, David R. Falkenburg, Louis G. Gerbarg, Ray L. Chang
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for operating a portable device based on an accelerometer are described. According to one embodiment of the invention, an accelerometer attached to a portable device detects a movement of the portable device. In response, a machine executable code is executed within the portable device to perform one or more predetermined user configurable operations. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
Claims57
A method, comprising:
- displaying on a display of a portable device a sequence of images transitioning towards a direction from a first scene to a second scene from a viewpoint of a user;
- detecting movement of the portable device using an accelerometer attached to the portable device;
- and
- executing machine-executable code to perform one or more predetermined user configurable actions in response to the detection of the movement of the portable device, including
- detecting whether the movement of the portable device is in accordance with a direction associated with the direction of the transition from the viewpoint of the user, and
- performing a predetermined operation if the movement is not detected in accordance with a direction associated with the direction of the transition.
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A portable device, comprising:
- a processor;
- a display;
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having instructions stored therein;
- and
- an accelerometer coupled to the processor and the memory to detect movement of the portable device, wherein the processor is configured to display on the display a sequence of images transitioning towards a direction from a first scene to a second scene from a viewpoint of a user, and wherein the processor executes instructions from the memory to perform one or more predetermined user configurable actions in response to the detection of the movement of the portable device, including
- detecting whether the movement of the portable device is in accordance with a direction associated with the direction of the transition from the viewpoint of the user, and
- performing a predetermined operation if the movement is not detected in accordance with a direction associated with the direction of the transition.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- means for displaying on a display of a portable device a sequence of images transitioning towards a direction from a first scene to a second scene from a viewpoint of a user;
- means for detecting movement of a portable device using an accelerometer attached to the portable device;
- and
- means for executing machine-executable code to perform one or more predetermined user configurable actions in response to the detection of the movement of the portable device, including
- means for detecting whether the movement of the portable device is in accordance with a direction associated with the direction of the transition from the viewpoint of the user, and
- means for performing a predetermined operation if the movement is not detected in accordance with a direction associated with the direction of the transition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.