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Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2013
Applicant:

Primesense Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;

Inventors:

Tamir Berliner, Beit Hashmonay, IL;

Jonathan Pokrass, Bat-Yam, IL;

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/033 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 1/1632 (2013.01); G06F 1/1686 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes receiving, from a three-dimensional (3D) sensing device coupled to a computer, a sequence of 3D maps including at least part of a hand of a user positioned in proximity to the computer. In embodiments of the present invention, the computer is coupled to one or more peripheral devices, and upon identifying, in the sequence of 3D maps, a movement of the hand toward a given peripheral device, an action preparatory to disengaging the given peripheral device is initiated.


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Berliner, Tamir. (2015). Detecting user intent to remove a pluggable peripheral device (U.S. Patent No. 9152234). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9152234

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