US 12,093,463 B2
Context-sensitive control of radar-based gesture-recognition
Vignesh Sachidanandam, Redwood City, CA (US); Ivan Poupyrev, Los Altos, CA (US); Leonardo Giusti, San Francisco, CA (US); Devon James O'Reilley Stern, Oakland, CA (US); Jung Ook Hong, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Patrick M. Amihood, Palo Alto, CA (US); John David Jacobs, San Diego, CA (US); Abel Seleshi Mengistu, Mountain View, CA (US); Brandon Barbello, Mountain View, CA (US); and Tyler Reed Kugler, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/822,277.
Application 17/822,277 is a continuation of application No. 16/965,735, granted, now 11,467,672, previously published as PCT/US2019/053676, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/894,566, filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/879,361, filed on Jul. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0413620 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G01S 7/41 (2006.01); G01S 13/06 (2006.01); H04M 1/72454 (2021.01); H04M 1/72463 (2021.01)
CPC G06F 3/017 (2013.01) [G01S 7/415 (2013.01); G01S 13/06 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); H04M 1/724631 (2022.02); H04M 1/72454 (2021.01); H04M 1/724634 (2022.02)] 45 Claims
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1. A method for context-sensitive control of radar-based gesture-recognition, the method comprising:
receiving, from one or more sensors of a user equipment, sensor data;
determining, based on the sensor data, a context of the user equipment, the context of the user equipment indicating that the user equipment is within a low-light condition;
determining whether the context satisfies requirements for radar-based gesture-recognition, the determining whether the context satisfies requirements for radar-based gesture-recognition based at least in part on whether the context indicates that the user equipment is within the low-light condition; and
responsive to determining that the context does not satisfy the requirements for radar-based gesture-recognition, gating a radar system to prevent the radar system from outputting indications of radar-based gestures to application subscribers.