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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
May. 03, 2017
Applicant:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventor:
Axel Heim, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, Chandler, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/042 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04101 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04107 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for detecting a continuous circle gesture, has the following steps: receiving vectors representative of an object movement by a object detection unit; determining from the received sequence velocity vectors a sequence of velocity vectors or an approximation thereof; estimating an angle between subsequent velocity vectors; and determining a rotation direction.