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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
May. 18, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Timothy Lee Fowers, Lake Forest, CA (US);
William Allan Dugan, Irvine, CA (US);
Ion Mateo Hardie, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Isaac Jeremy Shepard, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Brian David Fisher, Irvine, CA (US);
Robert Gustave Schiewe, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments enable additional content or features to be displayed to a user in response to detecting one eye of the user being closed either as a wink or for a duration of time. In one example, the additional content is graphical overlay, such as a menu containing selectable graphical elements to perform functions related to an application, game, or content, of global navigational features of the computing device in general, or to alternate views, features, or supplemental content for an application or game currently being displayed on a computing device. In one example, the overlay may be displayed only as long as the user keeps one eye closed or, alternatively, the user could wink to display the overlay and provide some other input to remove the overlay.