ACCELEROMETER: Accelerometer Orientation

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“This paper provides information about writing apps that consume accelerometer, inclinometer, compass, and gyrometer input using the Sensor platform for Windows operating systems. In addition, it describes the use of the Orientation sensor (a fusion of In addition to governing basic things like screen orientation, accelerometer data is widely used by apps such as pedometers and mobile games. Meanwhile, many apps often rely on advertising, which has led advertisers to search for ways to track users and Hammack introduces the accelerometer: I think this is one of the coolest features of today's smartphones, Hammack begins. It knows up from down. Built into the circuitry is a tiny device that can detect changes in orientation, and tell the screen to rotate. orientation and gravitational forces, using a combination of an accelerometer, gyroscope and a magnetometer. BerryIMU is specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi and is designed to take some of the complexity out of IMUs and to try and make them more This application note targets the accelerometers' portrait/landscape orientation detection feature, which has become standard in many handheld electronic devices. Additionally, this application note aims to explain uses as well as highlight some of the Apple has just secured a pair of patents that cover the iPad’s use of its accelerometer and broadband antenna. The patents relate to the use of the iPad’s accelerometers in gaming apps, displaying and changing the orientation of maps, and adapting 3D .

Your browser might soon be able to tell web apps how you’re holding your computer, much like high-end smartphones with an accelerometer sensor feed orientation information to mobile software. CNET pointed to a Chrome issue tracker that references In a move to bring screen-orientation awareness to mobile Web applications, Google has added accelerometer APIs to the WebKit HTML renderer. The APIs are based on the DeviceOrientation Event Specification, a W3C Web standard draft that describes DOM events A smartphone accelerometer is an electronic component that allows for data to be collected regarding the orientation of the phone. Applications loaded on the phone use it to allow for automatically re-orienting the screen image, for example, when it is Other researchers had looked into ways to subvert data gathered by gyroscopes, accelerometers and other orientation sensors to work out passwords, said Dr Aviv. One group even analysed smears on touchscreens to get clues about Pins and patterns. .