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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thad Eugene Starner, Atlanta, GA (US);
Karissa A. Sawyer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman, Berkeley, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
This document describes an interactive cord with integrated light sources. An interactive cord includes a cable, a cover that covers the cable, and a plurality of light sources integrated into the cover. The cover includes capacitive touchpoints that enable reception of touch input that causes a change in capacitance to one or more conductive threads effective to trigger a function at a computing device. Different conductive threads can be used at different capacitive touchpoints to trigger different functions. The light sources are configured to indicate a position of a respective capacitive touchpoint on the cover.