Visual indicator for paused radar gestures

• Main Authors: Jacobs, John David, Sachidanandam, Vignesh, Bedal, Lauren, Stern, Devon James O'Reilley, Giusti, Leonardo
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.06.2023
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SEALS; TESTING

This document describes techniques and systems that enable a visual indicator for paused radar gestures. The techniques and systems use a radar field to enable an electronic device to accurately determine radar gestures, or other movement, by a user. Further, the electronic device can determine certain conditions that can make it difficult for the electronic device to properly determine the user's radar gestures. When the device includes an application that can be controlled using radar gestures (a radar-gesture application), and the conditions are present, the device can enter a gesture-paused mode. When the device enters this mode, the techniques provide a gesture-paused feedback element on a display, which lets the user know that there is at least one radar-gesture application available or running on the electronic device but that radar gestures cannot presently be used to control the application.