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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
May. 09, 2018
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mohsen Shahmohammadi, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for facilitating user interaction with an electronic device may include (1) applying, via at least one primary electrode of a human-body coupling subsystem, a body-bound signal to a user's body, (2) receiving, through the user's body via at least one secondary electrode of the human-body coupling subsystem, the body-bound signal, (3) determining at least one characteristic of the received body-bound signal, and (4) identifying a bodily gesture made by the user based on the at least one characteristic of the received body-bound signal. Various other apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.