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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/043 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/015 (2013.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01); G06F 1/1694 (2013.01); G06F 3/014 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided are method and apparatus of defining at least a portion of a vicinity area of a portable device as an input area and controlling the portable device based on a user input provided on the input area, and the portable device enabling the method, wherein the portable device includes a sensing unit configured to sense a user input in a vicinity area of the portable device, a recognizer configured to recognize a user gesture corresponding to the user input, and an output unit configured to output a control instruction corresponding to the recognized user gesture to control the portable device.