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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2009
Applicant:
Yu Tang, Waterloo, CA;
Inventor:
Yu Tang, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G09G 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/3208 (2013.01); G06F 1/1686 (2013.01); G06F 1/1694 (2013.01); G06K 9/00248 (2013.01); G09G 3/20 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1614 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1637 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0492 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for controlling an orientation of a display of a wireless device using a combination of accelerometer-determined orientation and camera-determined orientation, the camera being a frontal camera used to confirm or reverse the orientation found by the accelerometer.