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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Abigail Jane Sellen, Cambridge, GB;
William A. S. Buxton, Toronto, CA;
Samuel Gavin Smyth, Huntingdon, GB;
Kenton O'Hara, Bristol, GB;
Richard Malcolm Banks, Egham, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device with a hover sensor is described where the electronic device has an orientation sensor configured to detect an orientation of the electronic device. The electronic device has a hover pattern recognition component configured to use data sensed by the hover sensor to recognize a hover pattern of one or more objects in a hover space extending from the hover sensor. The electronic device has a processor configured to select an action from a plurality of possible actions in dependence on the sensed orientation and the recognized hover pattern and to trigger the selected action.
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