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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2012
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Isaac S. Noble, Soquel, CA (US);
David A. Fotland, San Jose, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A user can use a finger, or other such object, to provide input to a computing device. The finger can be positioned and/or oriented at a distance from the device, and the device can determine an input that the user is attempting to provide based on a position, motion, or gesture associated with the finger. One or more cameras can capture image information, which can be analyzed to attempt to determine the location and/or orientation of the finger. If the finger is at least partially outside a field of view of the camera(s), the device can use another sensor (e.g., EMF) to determine one or more potential locations of the fingertip. The image information then can be used to determine which of the potential locations actually corresponds to the fingertip by analyzing that portion of the finger or hand represented in the image information.