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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Ultrahaptics Ip Two Limited, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Hua Yang, Millbrae, CA (US);
Leonid Kontsevich, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Donald, San Francisco, CA (US);
David S. Holz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Marsden, San Mateo, CA (US);
Paul Durdik, Foster City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited, Bristol, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/04815 (2022.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G06F 3/0346 (2013.01); G06F 3/03545 (2013.01);
Abstract
During control of a user interface via free-space motions of a hand or other suitable control object, switching between control modes can be facilitated by tracking the control object's movements relative to, and its contact with a 'virtual touch plane or surface' (i.e., a plane, portion of a plane, and/or surface computationally defined in space, or corresponding to any physical surface).