Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Microchip Technology Germany Gmbh

Captron Electronic Gmbh

Hendrik Meyl

Microchip Technology Germany Gmbh Ii & Co. Kg

Roman Gebhard

Johann Florian Wassermann

Samuel Coendet

Carolin Frontzek

Peter Arnold

Sofia Elisabeth Galbraith

Christian Rogge

Roland Aubauer

Matthis Hamann

Hendrik Sebastian Meyl

Carry case for handheld medical meter

Blood testing apparatus

Electrical switch

The invention relates to an electronic device for determining a first positional information and a second positional information regarding a user input object, such as at least one user hand or at least one stylus, the electronic device comprising: a touch-sensitive surface; contact-free detection means; and controller means that are operatively connected to the touch-sensitive surface and to the contact-free detection means; wherein the first positional information depends on where the user input object contacts the touch-sensitive surface, and wherein the second positional information depends on the spatial configuration of the user input object with regard to the touch-sensitive surface, characterized in that the controller means are adapted for simultaneously and/or alternately determining the first positional information via the touch-sensitive surface and the second positional information via the contact free detection means.

Electronic device with a user interface that has more than two degrees of freedom, the user interface comprising a touch-sensitive surface and contact-free detection means

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Munich, Germany

Roman Gebhard