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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Harry Tannenbaum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Hong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hirofumi Honjo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Prashanth Ramachandran, Foster City, CA (US);
Mikko Sannala, Mountain View, CA (US);
Naveen Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Wes Calidonna, Campbell, CA (US);
Arjuna Sivasithambaresan, Mountain View, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods systems and methods for altering a state of system using a remote device that processes gestures are described herein. The electronic device can communicate with the system in response to monitoring a user generated gesture or other interaction. For example, a user can wave the personal device or wave to the personal device, and in response thereto, the personal device can transmit an instruction to the system that causes it to change its operational state. Thus, embodiments discussed herein enable a user to perform remote gestures with a first device to affect the operation of a second device.