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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2017
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Katie Leah Roberts-Hoffman, San Jose, CA (US);
Premal Parekh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Computing devices may include one or more swiping interfaces provided on a base portion and/or a display portion of the computing device. For example, a computing device may include a display disposed within a housing, and a plurality of touch cells in a linear arrangement along an edge portion of the housing. Each of the plurality of touch cells may emit touch fields through the housing at a corresponding surface of the housing. The computing device may also include a processor that can execute machine-readable instructions, allowing the computing device to receive a plurality touch input signals from the plurality of touch cells, and to operate the computing device in response to the received plurality of touch input signals.