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Ryan P Brooks

Aidan N Zimmerman

Kevin C Armendariz

Mahmoud R Amini

Brenton A Baugh

Christopher R Pasma

Nathan J Bohney

Wingshan Wong

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Jeremy D Bataillou

Priyanka Bhandari

John M Brock

Liquan Tan

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Daniel J Coster

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Molly J Anderson

Zheng Gao

Dinesh C Mathew

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Robert Y Cao

Craig C Leong

Eric Andrew Knopf

Joel N Ruscher

Bruce E Berg

Bradford J Zercoe

Henry N Tsao

Wing-Shan Wong

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Brett W Degner

John Raff

Keith J Hendren

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Blake R Marshall

Santhana Krishnan Balaji

Reza Nasiri Mahalati

Li-Quan Tan

Guangtao Zhang

Thomas R Matzinger

Scott J Krahn

Nicholaus Lubinski

Wayne W Huang

Arka P Roy

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Charles A Schwalbach

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Rodney Andres Gomez Angulo

Robert Sean Murphy

Pol Pla I Conesa

Wing Kong Low

Umar Azad

Glenn Aune

Matthew Dean Rorhbach

Waylon Y Chen

Jeremy D Batailloi

A user input system including a stylus and an electronic device. A user may manipulate the stylus across an input surface of the electronic device and the movement may be detected using axially-aligned electric fields generated by the stylus. The stylus may also include a force-sensitive structure that can be used to estimate a force applied to the electronic device by the stylus.

Stylus for electronic devices

An input device includes a touch plate having a central axis and a top surface with three outer points evenly spaced away from the central axis. A touch sensor is used to detect a user touch on the top surface at the first outer point, and a support mechanism supports the touch plate and is configured to translate the touch plate at the second and third outer points upon application of the user touch and translation of the touch plate at the first outer point. Translation of the three outer points is substantially equal along the central axis.

Parallel motion trackpad

A computing system includes an electronic device, a cover or case for the electronic device, and an input device that is slidably movable yet attached to the cover or case. By positioning the electronic device on top of the input device, rotation of the electronic device which changes its vertical viewing angle also translates the input device. These can provide improved overall possible viewing angle adjustability, increased system stability at high viewing angles, laptop-like opening and closing behavior, lighter weight, and implementation using low-cost components.

Sliding input device cover

Controller devices can provide a user with multiple modes of operation. For example, the user can hold and operate the controller device in a first orientation for control of a first device and/or first mode of a device (e.g., media player), and the user can hold and operate the controller device in a second orientation for control of a second device and/or second mode of a device (e.g., gaming device). Features can be selectively stowed and deployed to facilitate user operation in the different modes. By further example, a controller device can be separated into segments to allow multiple users to hold and provide inputs with corresponding segments.

Multipurpose controller device

A remote control device includes a housing and an upper element. The top surface of the upper element can be partitioned to include different frictionally engaging surfaces. At least one frictionally engaging surface can be used as an input surface that receives user inputs such as touch or force inputs. An input device, such as a force sensing switch, can be positioned in the housing and used in determining an amount of force applied to the input surface. The bottom surface of the upper element below the second surface can be affixed to the housing in a manner that permits the input surface to bend based on the applied force.

Remote control device

Touch-based input devices, such as a stylus, can receive tactile input from a user. The tactile input functions can be performed by a touch sensor, such as a capacitive sensing device. A touch sensor can be integrated into a stylus in a low profile form. Wireless charging and magnetic coupling with a host device are also facilitated. The stylus can be provided with the above features in a small form factor that improves a user experience with the stylus.

An input mechanism is disclosed. The input mechanism includes a dome support structure defining an opening that extends through the dome support structure, a collapsible dome positioned in the opening and engaged with the dome support structure, and a cover member coupled to the dome support structure and covering the collapsible dome, thereby retaining the collapsible dome within the opening of the dome support structure.

Keyboard for electronic device

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Ryan P Brooks