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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 07, 2019
Yifang Liu, Burlingame, CA (US);
Yifang Liu, Burlingame, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A handheld electronic device is provided with touch sensors on multiple different surfaces of the device, such as a front display, a rear surface, and one or more side surfaces. Haptic gestures on the various sensors may be processed as user interaction inputs for an operating system and/or application software. Such a configuration may be utilized for a typing keyboard on a rear surface of a device, leaving the front display available for content other than a keyboard. Such a device with multiple touch sensors may also be effectively utilized to efficiently manipulate object representations rendered in three or more dimensions in a scene. Touch inputs may be dynamically mapped, further assisting in convenient usage of surfaces that may not be directly within a user's line of sight for input.