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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Brian Q. Huppi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin P. Grunthaner, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John G. Elias, Townsend, DE (US);
Sinan Filiz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven P. Hotelling, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device that senses home button inputs through ultrasonic force sensing. The electronic device may correlate that amount of force that a user applies to the home button with a specific home button command. In certain embodiments, the system may combine the force of touch information with other information that is sensed for a particular touch to correlate the touch input with a greater number of home button commands. A home button embodiment discussed herein may include a home button image that is displayed on a touch sensitive panel. In other embodiments, a home button may be located outside of the boundaries of a touch sensitive panel.