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Light-based finger gesture user interface

US8884926B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Neonode Inc. · SE

Inventors

Thomas Eriksson · Stockholm, SE
Per Leine · Bissenkamp, SE
Jochen Laveno Mangelsdorff · Stockholm, SE
Robert Pettersson · Åtvidaberg, SE
Anders Jansson · Uppsala, SE
Magnus Goertz · Lidingö, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 15, 2014
Grant date	Nov 11, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 15, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2203/04808
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A finger gesture user interface for an electronic device, including a housing for an electronic device including a front opening in a front outer surface of the housing, a rear opening in a rear outer surface of the housing, and inner sidewalls extending from the front opening to the rear opening to form a cavity, a display, mounted in the housing along a plane transverse to the front and rear openings, for rendering a 3D realm, a detector mounted in the inner sidewalls, operable to detect translation of a finger inserted in the cavity along a dimension of the cavity transverse to the display plane, and a processor connected to the detector and to the display for interpreting the detected finger translation as a user interface input command to move within the 3D realm along the dimension transverse to the display.

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