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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Microchip Technology Germany Gmbh, Rosenheim, DE;
Inventors:
Axel Heim, Munich, DE;
Joao Ferreira, Gilching, DE;
Assignee:
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY GERMANY GMBH, Rosenheim, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/045 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for detecting a continuous circular gesture performed by an object, may have the steps of: detecting a movement of an object performing a circular movement by scanning the movement and determining subsequent position points of the object, wherein a reference position of a virtual circular movement is adapted depending on the history of scanned position points.