Patent ID: 7831932
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: G06F,G08C,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A device control apparatus comprising: a user interface including a motion sensor capable of producing an output signal, in response to: (a) motion, in any direction, of the motion sensor, or a component of the motion sensor, or (b) a human within a motion sensing zone of the motion sensor, a body part of a human within a motion sensing zone of the motion sensor, or an object under control of a human within a motion sensing zone of the motion sensor; a processing unit in communication with the interface adapted to convert the sensor output signal into a command function, where a sensor output is based solely on the sensed motion, and where the command function comprises a scroll function or a simultaneous select and activate function, and one object or a plurality of objects in electronic communication with and under the control of the processing unit and where the processing unit includes an object list having an object identifier for each object and an object specific attribute list for each object having a plurality of attributes, where each object specific attribute has an attribute identifier, where the simultaneous select and activate function comprises a select and scroll function or a selecting and attribute controll function, where the objects are selected from a group consisting of software components, electrical or electronic devices and mixtures or combinations thereof, and where motion in a first direction causes the processing unit to issue the scroll function for scrolling through the object list and where a change in a direction of the motion corresponding to a second direction of motion, sufficiently different from the first direction of motion to allow motion discrimination by either the processing unit or motion sensor, causes the processing unit to simultaneously select an object from the object list and activate the selected object, where the object is either an attribute list or an attribute and where the processing unit issue a corresponding scroll function or an attribute control function.