Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jim Tom Belesiu

Summer L Schneider

Ralf Groene

Hua Wang

Timothy Carlyle Shaw

David R Perek

Kabir Siddiqui

Karsten Aagaard

Paul Henry Dietz

Thomas Charles Oliver

David Otto Whitt, Iii

Eric Joseph Wahl

Edward Charles Giaimo, Iii

Panos Costa Panay

Christopher Harry Stoumbos

James Alec Ishihara

Todd David Pleake

Nathan C Sherman

Sharon Drasnin

Matthew David Mickelson

David Michael Lane

Joel Lawrence Pelley

Christopher Andrew Whitman

Rob Huala

David Carter Vandervoort

Robert D Young

Gene Robert Obie

James Charles Marshall

Moshe Randall Lutz

Darryl I Jensen

Harold F Mantooth

Camilo Leon

Hiroo Umeno

Chun Beng Goh

Dennis J Mathias

Eric Boller Fleegal

Amar Vattakandy

Michael A Schwager

Andrew N Cady

James H Wise

Mark J Seilstad

Stephan Alexander Cummings

Van Winston Oler

Matthew G Pedersen

Hakon Strande

Xianfeng Tian

Chris Whitman

David Neff

Jose R Sousa

Richard Peter Spooner

Darryl L Jensen

Matthew G Pederson

Iii Edward C Giaimo

Davie M Lane

Darryl Jensen

Jamesh Wise

Rajesh Manohar Dighde

Shane Aaron Sykes

Scott K Gibson

Scott Mitchel Mail

Jay Scott Kassels

Iii David Otto Whitt

Anthony Christian Reed

Bernard Maurice Schultz

David Otto Iii Whitt

Edward C Giaimo Iii

Robyn Rebecca Reed Mclaughlin

Edward C Iii Giaimo

Pressure sensitive key techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a device includes at least one pressure sensitive key having a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, the flexible contact layer configured to flex responsive to pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input, for a computing device, associated with the pressure sensitive key. At least one of the flexible contact layer or the sensor substrate are configured to at least partially normalize an output resulting from pressure applied at a first location of the flexible contact layer with an output resulting from pressure applied at a second location of the flexible contact layer that has lesser flexibility than the first location.

Pressure sensitive keys

Pressure sensitive key normalization

Input device layer and nesting techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a pressure sensitive key assembly including a substrate having a plurality of hardware elements secured to a surface. The input device also includes one or more layers disposed proximal to the surface, the one or more layers having respective openings configured to nest the one or more hardware elements therein.

Input device layers and nesting

Force concentrator techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a pressure sensitive key includes a sensor substrate having a plurality of conductors, a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate and configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input; and a force concentrator layer disposed proximal to the flexible contact layer on a side opposite the sensor substrate. The force concentrator layer has a pad disposed thereon that is configured to cause pressure applied to the force concentrator layer to be channeled through the pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input.

Force concentrator

Techniques for mobile device power state are described. In one or more implementations, a mobile device includes a computing device that is flexibly coupled to an input device via a flexible hinge. Accordingly, the mobile device can operate in a variety of different power states based on a positional orientation of the computing device to an associated input device. In one or more implementations, an application that resides on a computing device can operate in different application states based on a positional orientation of the computing device to an associated input device. In one or more implementations, techniques discussed herein can differentiate between vibrations caused by touch input to a touch functionality, and other types of vibrations. Based on this differentiation, techniques can determine whether to transition between device power states.

Mobile device power state

Accessory device authentication techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, connection of an accessory device to a host computing device is detected. Responsive to the detection, an authentication sequence may occur to verify an identity and/or capabilities of the accessory device. Upon successful authentication of the accessory device, the host device may authorize the accessory device for power exchange interactions with the host device. The host device may then draw supplemental power from a power source associated with the authorized accessory device, such as a battery or power adapter. The host device may also enable the accessory device to obtain and use power supplied by the host device in some scenarios. Power exchange between a host device and an authorized accessory may be managed in accordance with capabilities of the accessory device that are identified during authentication.

Accessory device authentication

Various embodiments related to a host computing device for rendering and sending image data to a peripheral device for display at the peripheral device. For example, one embodiment comprises a host computing device, the host computing device comprising a data storage subsystem and a logic subsystem. The host computing device further comprises instructions stored in the data storage subsystem and executable by the logic subsystem to output to the peripheral device a frame of image data representing a difference between a currently rendered image and an (N&#x2212;1)-th previously rendered image, N being an integer and having a value of 3 or more.

Updating image in buffer via difference data

Data simulation using host data storage chain

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