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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
May. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Seang Y. Chau, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alda Yuk Ying Luong, Oakland, CA (US);
Jason Williams, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael J. Lammers, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23216 (2013.01); G06F 1/1686 (2013.01); G06F 1/1694 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); G06F 2200/1636 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments provide a wearable camera that can be worn by a user. The wearable camera includes an accelerometer that can be used to detect camera motion. Input can be provided to the camera in the form of one or more taps which have an associated motion profile, as sensed by the accelerometer. The tap or taps can be mapped to camera functionality to activate the functionality.