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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2012
Micha Galor, Tel Aviv, IL;
Jonathan Pokrass, Bat-Yam, IL;
Amir Hoffnung, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Ofir OR, Ramat Gan, IL;
Micha Galor, Tel Aviv, IL;
Jonathan Pokrass, Bat-Yam, IL;
Amir Hoffnung, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Ofir Or, Ramat Gan, IL;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method including presenting, by a computer, multiple interactive items on a display coupled to the computer, and receiving, from a depth sensor, a sequence of three-dimensional (3D) maps containing at least a hand of a user of the computer. An explicit select gesture performed by the user toward one of the interactive items is detected in the maps, and the one of the interactive items is selected responsively to the explicit select gesture. Subsequent to selecting the one of the interactive items, a TimeClick functionality is actuated for subsequent interactive item selections to be made by the user.