Patent ID: 9367137
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A system to control an alarm application executed by a device using a touch-less gesture, the system comprising: two or more ambient light sensors arranged at respective surface locations on a same side of the device, each of the two or more ambient light sensors configured to measure light intensity at the respective surface location; a processor configured to detect a gesture as a detected gesture based on the light intensity measured by the ambient light sensors and output a control signal to the alarm application based on the detected gesture, wherein at least one other gesture also corresponds with the control signal; and a gesture library configured to store two or more gestures, and one or more control signals corresponding to the two or more gestures, wherein the gesture library stores a correspondence between the detected gesture and the control signal and stores a correspondence between the at least one other gesture and the control signal.