METHOD AND ALGORITHM FOR DETECTING MOVEMENT OF AN OBJECT
First Claim
1. A method for detecting movement near an electronic device, the method comprising:
- providing an electronic device having movement detection circuitry for detecting contactless movement of an object near the electronic device, wherein the device includes a memory for storing one or more predefined state parameters that correspond to one or more predefined movements to be detected by the movement detection circuitry;
detecting movement of an object near the movement detection circuitry;
generating detected state information, wherein the detected state information corresponds at least in part to the detected movement of the object;
comparing the one or more predefined state parameters with the detected state information; and
generating a signal to control one or more user selectable operations of the electronic device based at least in part on the detected movement of the object.
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Abstract
A system, method and computer application for electronic device 10 for detecting movement near an electronic device. The electronic device includes movement detection circuitry configured to detect movement of an object near the movement detection circuitry. The movement detection circuitry includes at least one sensor that detects movement and generates at least one output signal corresponding to a position of the object detected. The electronic device further includes a memory for storing one or more predefined state parameters that correspond to one or more predefined movements to be detected by the movement detection circuitry. During processing, the output signals of the sensors are processed by averaging signals received from the one or more sensors to determine vertical movement above the movement detection circuitry and a determination is made as to whether the output signals of the one or more sensors are active or inactive to determine horizontal movement across the movement detection circuitry.
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24 Claims
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1. A method for detecting movement near an electronic device, the method comprising:
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providing an electronic device having movement detection circuitry for detecting contactless movement of an object near the electronic device, wherein the device includes a memory for storing one or more predefined state parameters that correspond to one or more predefined movements to be detected by the movement detection circuitry; detecting movement of an object near the movement detection circuitry; generating detected state information, wherein the detected state information corresponds at least in part to the detected movement of the object; comparing the one or more predefined state parameters with the detected state information; and generating a signal to control one or more user selectable operations of the electronic device based at least in part on the detected movement of the object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An electronic device comprising:
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movement detection circuitry configured to detect movement of an object near the movement detection circuitry, wherein the movement detection circuitry includes at least one sensor and generates at least one output signal corresponding to a position of the object detected; a memory for storing one or more predefined state parameters that correspond to one or more predefined movements to be detected by the movement detection circuitry; and a processor coupled to the memory and the movement detection circuitry, wherein the processor receives one or more signals from the movement detection circuitry and processes the one or more signals according to a movement detection algorithm to detect the one or more predefined movements to control one more operations of the electronic device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A computer program stored on a machine readable medium in an electronic device, the program being suitable for detecting movement of an object near the electronic device, wherein
when the computer program is loaded in memory of the electronic device and executed, causes one or more predefined state parameters to be stored in memory and movement detection circuitry having a plurality of sensors to generate detected state information associated with movement of the object near the movement detection circuitry and comparing the one or more predefined state parameters with the detected state information, wherein, comparing the one or more predefined state parameters iteratively to the detected state information to determine if a match exists between the predefined state parameters and the detected state parameters, wherein the detected state information is processed by averaging signals received from the plurality of sensors to determine vertical movement above the plurality of detectors and by determining if the signals received from the plurality of sensors are active or inactive to determine horizontal movement across the plurality of detectors; - and generating a signal to control one or more user selectable operations of the electronic device based at least in part on the detected movement of the object.
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