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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Sensel, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Aaron Zarraga, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Meagher Grau, Durham, NC (US);
Bethany Noel Haniger, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Bradley James Bozarth, Moore, SC (US);
Brogan Carl Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, Mountain View, CA (US);
James Frank Thomas, Danville, CA (US);
Mark Joshua Rosenberg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Hans Nyboer, San Jose, CA (US);
Reuben Eric Martinez, Gilroy, CA (US);
Scott Gregory Isaacson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephanie Jeanne Oberg, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Timothy James Miller, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Tomer Moscovich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yibo Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sensel, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to touch-sensor detector systems and methods incorporating an interpolated variable impedance touch sensor array and specifically to such systems and methods for force-aware interaction with handheld display devices on one or more surfaces of the device. An exemplary embodiment includes a method for receiving a flexing gesture formed on a sensor panel of the handheld device including determining two or more pressure inputs at the sensor panel and determining a relative pressure between the two or more pressure inputs. The method further includes correlating the relative pressure inputs to the flexing gesture, associating the flexing gesture with a UI element and providing an input to the UI element based on the gesture and the relative pressure between the two or more pressure inputs.