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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tyler Reed Kugler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stuart Murray Scott, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexey Polyudov, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Seungyon Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Philip Quinn, San Jose, CA (US);
Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Redwood City, CA (US);
Shumin Zhai, Los Altos, CA (US);
Debanjan Mukherjee, San Jose, CA (US);
James B. Miller, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes one or more processors of an electronic device receiving signals from multiple sensors located along an edge of the device. The signals are received in response to external contact being provided to the edge of the device. At least one processor determines a distribution of forces applied to the sensors based on the input signals. Based on the determined distribution of forces, the processor determines: i) a location of the external contact that is offset from a location of each of the multiple sensors, and ii) a magnitude of the force of the external contact. The processor detects whether sensing criteria has been satisfied based on an analysis of: i) the location of the external contact and ii) the magnitude of the force of the external contact. Responsive to detecting that sensing criteria has been satisfied, the processor executes a user input action.