Meta patents wristband that moves a cursor using muscle signals and motion
Meta describes a system where a wrist-wearable device uses sensors to detect muscle activity and hand movements. It combines this data to control a cursor on a separate screen, allowing users to navigate interfaces by rolling their wrist or moving their forearm.
In the filing’s own words
A system includes a wrist-wearable device, worn by a user, including one or more biopotential sensors and one or more inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors and a display device including one or more displays presenting a user interface and a cursor. The system includes memory devices including instructions that, when executed by processors, cause the processors to obtain biopotential data from the one or more biopotential sensors, obtain motion data from the one or more IMU sensors, determine, by a first machine learning model based on the biopotential data and the motion data, a wrist rotation performed by the user, determine, by a second machine learning model based on the biopotential data and the motion data, a forearm translation performed by the user, and cause the cursor to move from a first location to a second location within the user interface based on the wrist rotation and the forearm translation.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A system comprising: a wrist-wearable device, worn by a user, including one or more biopotential sensors and one or more inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors; a display device, communicatively coupled to the wrist-wearable device, including one or more displays, the one or more displays presenting a user interface and a selection indicator; one or more processors; and one or more memory devices including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: obtain biopotential data from the one or more biopotential sensors; obtain motion data from the one or more IMU sensors; determine, by a first machine learning model based on the biopotential data and the motion data, a wrist rotation performed by the user; determine, by a second machine learning model based on the biopotential data and the motion data, a forearm translation performed by the user; and cause the selection indicator, presented at the one or more displays, to move from a first location to a second location within the user interface based on the wrist rotation and the forearm translation.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- TECHNIQUES FOR USING IN-AIR WRIST-ROLL GESTURES DETECTED VIA A WRIST-WEARABLE DEVICE TO OPERATE ANOTHER DEVICE, AND WEARABLE DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING THOSE TECHNIQUES
- Publication number
- US20260329390A1
- Application number
- 19730639
- Filed
- Jul 2, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/0346 Physics & computingG06F 3/014 Physics & computingG06F 3/017 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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