Broadcom Corporation

Bob Lukas

Jeyhan Karaoguz

Sumant Ranganathan

Tom W Kwan

David A Sobel

Xinyu Yu

Monika Gupta

Qiang Fu

Operating a game controller to identify a user by receiving touch pad input from at least one touch sensitive pad of the game controller that has a plurality of touch sensitive elements. The touch pad input corresponds to the user's touch of at least some of the plurality of touch sensitive elements. The touch pad input is at least partially processed by processing circuitry of the game controller and transmitted to a game console via a communications interface of the game controller for processing of the at least partially processed touch pad input to identify the user via pattern recognition. At least partially processing the touch pad input can be by identifying at least one finger orientation, at least one finger spacing, at least one finger width, a plurality of finger knuckle/joint locations, and/or a plurality of finger lengths based upon the touch pad input.

Hand-held gaming device that identifies user based upon input from touch sensitive panel

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Delta, Canada

Bob Lukas