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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Inventors:
Chi Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Florin Cutu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
AMS SENSORS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD., Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0426 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06K 9/00355 (2013.01); G06K 9/00335 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes projecting a structured light pattern projected onto a surface and detecting and responding to interactions with the same. The techniques described here can, in some cases, facilitate recognizing that an object such as a user's hand is adjacent the plane of a projection surface and can distinguish the object from the projection surface itself. Movement of the object then can be interpreted, for example, as a specified type of gesture that can trigger a specified type of operation to occur.