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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 22, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Mithra Vankipuram, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ian N. Robinson, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus comprises, a user interface surface, sensor circuitry, and logic circuitry. The sensor circuitry to detect a palm-based touch event caused by a user's hand relative to the user interface surface to indicate a degree of coarseness for a graphics change, and detect a digit-based touch event caused by a digit of the user's hand relative to the user interface surface. The logic circuitry to, in response to the touch events indicating the palm is in a fixed position and a position of the digit, provide data associated with the graphics change.


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