Meta patents hand gestures that switch controls between watch and headset
This patent describes a system where a wrist-wearable device uses sensors to detect the position of your hand in the air. Depending on which way your hand is pointing, the same gesture can trigger an action on the wrist device or send a command to a head-wearable device.
In the filing’s own words
Methods of interpreting navigating user interfaces on multiple devices based on spatial orientations of a user's hand are provided. The method includes receiving, from one or more sensors of a wrist-wearable device, data associated with performance of an in-air hand gesture by a hand of a wearer of the wrist-wearable device. The method further includes in accordance with a determination that the data indicates that the hand of the wearer is in a first orientation when the in-air hand gesture was performed, causing performance of a first operation at the wrist-wearable device. The method further includes in accordance with a determination that the data indicates that the hand of the wearer is in a second orientation when the in-air hand gesture was performed, causing performance of a second operation at a head-wearable device.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a wearable device, cause the wearable device to perform or cause performance of operations for: receiving, from one or more sensors of a wrist-wearable device, data associated with performance of an in-air hand gesture by a hand of a wearer of the wrist-wearable device, wherein: in accordance with a determination that the data indicates that the hand of the wearer is in a first orientation when the in-air hand gesture was performed, causing performance of a first operation at the wrist-wearable device; and in accordance with a determination that the data indicates that the hand of the wearer is in a second orientation when the in-air hand gesture was performed, causing performance of a second operation at a head-wearable device.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- Systems for navigating user interfaces on multiple devices based on spatial orientations of a user's hand, and method of use thereof
- Patent number
- US12724493B2
- Application number
- 19031289
- Filed
- Jan 17, 2025
- Granted
- Sep 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/017 Physics & computingG06V 40/11 Physics & computingMore from Meta in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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