ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,169, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Contextual-based motion control of a user interface" was invented by Milton Villeda (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for controlling a user interface using motion-based control. An example embodiment operates by detecting a start action that triggers motion sampling from a remote control. In response to detecting the start action, the embodiment receives motion data from the remote contro...