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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2019
Applicant:
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Matthew Longest, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) monitoring, at a computing device via one or more sensors, positions of one or more fingers of a user relative to an opposing thumb of the user, (2) detecting, while monitoring the positions, a pinch gesture of the one or more fingers, (3) determining one or more user inputs to which at least the pinch gesture has been mapped, and (4) performing, at the computing device, a user-input operation based on the one or more user inputs. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.