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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0487 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0487 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device having at least two 3-dimensional gesture sensors that employ differing gesture-sensing modalities as compared to one another further includes a control circuit that operably couples to both of these 3-dimensional gesture sensors and employs both to detect three-dimensional gestures. By one approach the control circuit employs both sensors in a temporally-overlapping manner to reliably and accurately detect the 3D gesture. As another illustrative example, the control circuit may employ different sensors during different portions of a given 3D gesture to detect those corresponding portions of the 3D gesture.