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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Narayan Sundararajan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven T. Holmes, Redwood City, CA (US);
Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Portland, OR (US);
Prabhakar R. Datta, Portland, OR (US);
Fuad Al-Amin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Saurin Shah, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A touchpad system is disclosed herein that includes a touchpad sensor formed from a plurality of flexible materials and is at least partially integrated into host clothing or furniture such that the touchpad sensor is generally obscured from view. The touchpad sensor may be implemented as a resistive or capacitive touchpad, whereby user input is detected and converted into a proportional electrical signal. The touchpad sensor may include N layers of flexible materials configured to conduct electrical energy, and also conform to contours of a host object. At least one layer of the flexible materials may be heat sealed or otherwise adhered to an inner surface of the host object, such as beneath a shirt sleeve. Thus smart clothing/furniture may appear to be 'normal' while also providing convenient user-access to a touchpad sensor that can robustly handle a wide variety of user-input to control operation of a remote computing device.