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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2015
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Julie Anne Gordon, Flower Mound, TX (US);
James S. Rutledge, Durham, NC (US);
Bradley Park Strazisar, Cary, NC (US);
Aaron Michael Stewart, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jay Wesley Johnson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
An apparatus can include a left optical trackpad that, responsive to object sensing, outputs a left optical trackpad signal; a right optical trackpad that, responsive to object sensing, outputs a right optical trackpad signal; assignment circuitry that assigns a status to the optical trackpads that is a right hand dominant status or a left hand dominant status; and control circuitry that outputs one or more commands based at least in part on the status and at least one of the right optical trackpad signal and the left optical trackpad signal.