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Patent No.:

US 11113373 B1

PDFFull Text
Expired
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2016

Unlocking electronic devices using touch-based sensors

Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sudish Mukundan, San Diego, CA (US);

Christopher Charles Kruger, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);

Attorney:

Trop, Pruner & Hu PC

Primary Examiner:

Trong H Nguyen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G11C 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some examples, an electronic device includes a touch-based sensor, a proximity sensor, and a processor to in response to determining, based on output from the proximity sensor, that the electronic device is in an enclosed space: determine whether a specified number of multiple touches of the touch-based sensor has been detected by the touch-based sensor, and in response to determining that the specified number of multiple touches of the touch-based sensor has been detected by the touch-based sensor, unlock the electronic device.

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