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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2017
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Neil Griffiths, Lexington, MA (US);
Chris Bierbower, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Matt Nelson, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Paul Kafadar, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein involve a playback device having capacitive sensors. In an example implementation, an enclosure of a playback device includes: a first external surface comprising a speaker grille; a second external surface substantially orthogonal to the first external surface; and an array of capacitive sensors underlying the second external surface of the playback device. The array of capacitive sensors includes a first subset of capacitive sensors underlying a first region of the second external surface, a second subset of capacitive sensors underlying a second region of the second external surface, and a third subset of capacitive sensors underlying a third region of the second external surface. The enclosure and sensors may be arranged such that a particular side of the first region is adjacent to a first side of the second region, a particular side of the third region is adjacent to a second side of the second region.