Nokia Technologies Oy

Markus Ahonen

Piers Andrew

Zoran Radivojevic

Chris Bower

Michael Robert Astley

Darryl Cotton

Samiul Md Haque

Paul Beecher

An apparatus including a plurality of adjacent repeated base units, each base unit formed from an active electrode of first, second and third touch sensor arrays, the first, second and third touch sensor arrays each including a plurality of active electrodes connected to a respective common terminal of the touch sensor array, wherein each base unit includes an active electrode of the second touch sensor array interlaced between an active electrode of the first touch sensor array and an active electrode of the third touch sensor array such that a swipe touch gesture applied to two or more adjacent active electrodes of the apparatus generates signalling at the respective common terminals of the corresponding touch sensor arrays which allows the direction of the swipe touch gesture to be determined.

Apparatus and associated methods

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Markus Ahonen