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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2019
Applicant:

Motorola Mobility Llc, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

John J. Gorsica, Chicago, IL (US);

Rachid Alameh, Chicago, IL (US);

Jenna Zylema, Chicago, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola Mobility LLC, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for calibrating presence and gesture detection thermal sensors in a mobile electronic communications device entail sensing an ambient temperature and designating the sensed ambient temperature as room temperature, and determining that a user appendage has touched, or is close to but not touching, the thermal sensor. If the user appendage has touched a lens of the thermal sensor, a sensed temperature just prior to that event is used as hand temperature. If the user appendage is close to but not touching the lens of the thermal sensor, the temperature during that event is used as hand temperature. A difference between the hand temperature and the room temperature is then determined and the presence and gesture detection functions for the device are calibrated based on the determined difference.


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