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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2018
Elliptic Laboratories As, Oslo, NO;
Guenael Thomas Strutt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tom Kavli, Nittedal, NO;
Steven Lewis, Cupertino, CA (US);
Elliptic Laboratories AS, Oslo, NO;
Abstract
A system for detecting a user input to a device comprises a display arrangement () arranged to provide a display () on a surface. An optical proximity sensing arrangement () is configured to produce touch information relating to whether an input object is within a threshold distance of the surface. An acoustic position sensing arrangement (, and) configured to produce position information relating to a position of the input object on the surface. A processing arrangement configured to determine an input to the device from the position information only when it determines from the touch information that the input object is within the threshold distance of the surface.