Patent ID: 9652044
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06F,H03K

Claim:
1. A method comprising: prompting for a selection one or more proximity sensors of a plurality of proximity sensors by a computing device, wherein the computing device comprises the plurality of proximity sensors; requesting a distance measurement from each of the plurality of proximity sensors by the computing device; activating a first subset of the plurality of proximity sensors and deactivating a second subset of the plurality of sensors based on the requested distance measurements from each of the plurality of proximity sensors; receiving a first value from a first proximity sensor of the activated first subset of the plurality of proximity sensors by an application of the computing device, wherein the first value represents a first distance between a first object and the first proximity sensor; receiving a second value from a second proximity sensor of the activated first subset of the plurality of proximity sensors by the application of the computing device, wherein the second value represents a second distance between a second object and the second proximity sensor; and performing one or more operations based on both the first value and the second value by the application of the computing device.