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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2017
Applicant:
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Premal Parekh, Milpitas, CA (US);
Amy Lai Wong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/045 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus can comprise a display, a first plurality of electrodes, a second plurality of electrodes, a dummy electrode, and a processor. The processor can cause the apparatus to recognize a contact in response to receiving input on at least one of the first plurality of electrodes and at least one of the second plurality of electrodes and receiving no input on the dummy electrode, and ignore a contact in response to receiving input on the dummy electrode, at least one of the first plurality of electrodes, and at least one of the second plurality of electrodes.