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Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tongyan Zhai, Portland, OR (US);

Srikanth Potluri, Folsom, CA (US);

Devon Worrell, Folsom, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/043 (2006.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/043 (2013.01);
Abstract

Touch control surfaces for electronic user devices are disclosed herein. An example electronic device includes a microphone array, a touch event identifier to analyze signal data generated by microphones of the microphone array to detect a first touch on a surface of the electronic device, a gesture detector to correlate the first touch with a gesture, a user input mapper to map the gesture to a user input and a processor to cause the electronic device to respond to the user input.


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