Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Detecting positions of a device based on magnetic fields generated by magnetic field generators at different positions of the device
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Application No.: US15275025Application Date: 2016-09-23
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Publication No.: US10551916B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Ke-Yu Chen , Sean Jason Keller , David R. Perek , Tristan Thomas Trutna , Bruce A. Cleary, III
- Applicant: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/01
- IPC: G06F3/01 ; G01B7/004 ; G06F3/0346

Abstract:
A wearable device (such as a glove or other control adapted to be worn on a portion of a body) includes multiple magnetic field generators at various locations on the wearable device and a magnetic flux sensor at a predetermined position relative to the wearable device. A position determines spatial positions of locations of the wearable device based on magnetic fields generated by various magnetic field generators and detected by the magnetic flux sensor. In some embodiments, the magnetic field generators have known positions relative to each other. Additionally, each magnetic field generator may generate a magnetic field in response to an input signal having a particular attribute, allowing the magnetic flux sensor to identify magnetic fields generated by different magnetic field generators.
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