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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2011
Barbara Kruse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Steger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Barbara Kruse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Steger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus of using a wearable remote interface device capable of detecting inputs from movements are disclosed. The wearable remote interface device, which could be attached to a finger or a hand or any parts of a body, includes a sensor, a filter, an input identifier, and a transmitter. The sensor, in one embodiment, is capable of sensing the movement of the finger or any part of body in which the wearable remote interface device is attached with. Upon detecting the various movements associated with the finger, the filter subsequently removes any extraneous gestures from the detected movements. The input identifier, which could be a part of the filter, identifies one or more user inputs from the filtered movements. The transmitter transmits the input(s) to a processing device via a wireless communications network.