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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2017
Google Inc., 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 techniques and devices for preventing false positives with an interactive cord. An interactive cord includes a cable, and fabric cover that covers the cable. The fabric cover includes one or more conductive threads woven into the fabric cover to form one or more capacitive touchpoints which are configured to enable reception of touch input that causes a change in capacitance to the one or more conductive threads. A controller, implemented at the interactive cord or a computing device coupled to the interactive cord, can detect the change in capacitance and trigger one or more functions associated with the one or more capacitive touchpoints. In one or more implementations, the interactive cord is designed to prevent 'false positives' which may occur from accidental contact with the touchpoints, such as when the interactive cord makes contact with the user's body or a conductive surface.