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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Laurent Nevou, Zurich, CH;

Markus Dantler, Thalwil, CH;

Jens Geiger, Thalwil, CH;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/03 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0325 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described for use with a wide range of consumer and other electronic devices to facilitate a user's control of such features as volume, as well as song, channel or page selection, depending on the application. A method includes emitting light out of a module, receiving signals from light detectors in the module, wherein the signals represent, at least in part, light reflected by a person's finger or other object passing in front of the light detectors, detecting movement of the person's finger or other object based on the received signals, and controlling a feature of a device in response to the detected movement.


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