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Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aaron M. Burns, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Adam G. Poulos, Saratoga, CA (US);

Arun Rakesh Yoganandan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Benjamin Hylak, San Francisco, CA (US);

Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, San Francisco, CA (US);

Nicolai Georg, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/014 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, a display, an extremity tracking system, and a communication interface provided to communicate with a finger-wearable device. The method includes displaying a computer-generated object on the display. The method includes obtaining finger manipulation data from the finger-wearable device via the communication interface. The method includes determining a multi-finger gesture based on extremity tracking data from the extremity tracking system and the finger manipulation data. The method includes registering an engagement event with respect to the computer-generated object according to the multi-finger gesture.


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