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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2017
Google Technology Holdings Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Zafiris, Hawthorn Woods, IL (US);
Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Chording techniques are described that may be utilized in a variety of ways to provide inputs to a computing device. The computing device, for instance, may include sensors disposed on a housing of the computing device such that the sensors are configured to detect fingers of a user when grasping the device. Detection of a likely indexed relative position of the fingers of the user's hand in relation to each other, and even an amount of pressure used by respective ones of the fingers, may be used to define and input chords that may be used to initiate operations of the computing device.