Electronic Device with Touchless User Interface
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1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that cause a handheld portable electronic device (HPED) to execute a method, comprising:
- display a cursor and an object on a display that is located on a first side of a body of the HPED;
sense repetitive circular movements of a finger of a user holding the HPED while the finger is hidden under the body and not visible to the user and is located next to but not touching a second side of the HPED that is opposite to the first side when the first side is visible to the user and the second side is not visible to the user; and
move the cursor along the display in response to the repetitive circular movements of the finger next to but not touching the second side when the first side is visible to the user and the second side is not visible to the user.
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Abstract
An electronic device determines a tap from a finger of a user toward a surface of an electronic device while the surface is face-down and not visible to the user. A touchless user interface activates clicks on objects displayed with the electronic device.
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1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that cause a handheld portable electronic device (HPED) to execute a method, comprising:
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display a cursor and an object on a display that is located on a first side of a body of the HPED; sense repetitive circular movements of a finger of a user holding the HPED while the finger is hidden under the body and not visible to the user and is located next to but not touching a second side of the HPED that is opposite to the first side when the first side is visible to the user and the second side is not visible to the user; and move the cursor along the display in response to the repetitive circular movements of the finger next to but not touching the second side when the first side is visible to the user and the second side is not visible to the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A handheld portable electronic device (HPED), comprising:
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a body that has a rectangular shape with a first side and a second side oppositely disposed from the first side; a sensor that senses a finger of a user with respect to a location on the second side when the finger is proximate to but not touching the location on the second side and that senses movement of the finger towards the location on the second side while the first side is face-up and visible to the user and the second side is face-down and not visible to the user; a display that is located on the first side, that displays an object, and that displays a cursor at a location that is oppositely disposed from and directly over the location of the finger on the second side while the finger is proximate to but not touching the location on the second side; and a processor that communicates with the sensor and with the display and that activates, in response to the sensor sensing movement of the finger toward the location on the second side, a click on the object on the display such that the click activates on the object without the finger touching the second side while the first side and display are face-up and visible to a user and the second side is face-down and not visible to the user. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method, comprising:
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displaying an object on a display located at a first surface of a handheld portable electronic device (HPED); sensing, by the HPED, a tap from a finger of a user at a first location on a second surface that is oppositely disposed from the first surface while the first surface and display are face-up and visible to the user and the second surface is face-down and not visible to the user; sensing, by the HPED, drag movement of the finger along the second surface from the first location to a second location that is oppositely disposed from and directly under the object on the display while the first surface and display are face-up and visible to the user and the second surface is face-down and not visible to the user; sensing, by the HPED, removal of the finger from second surface at the second location upon completion of the drag movement while the first surface and display are face-up and visible to the user and the second surface is face-down and not visible to the user; and activating, by the HPED, a click on the object on the display in response to sensing removal of the finger from second surface at the second location upon completion of the drag movement. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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