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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Arian Behzadi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey A Sewell, Wyandotte, MI (US);
Andrew W Kooker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kurt R Stiehl, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A controller may have an input device and a sensor adjacent to the input device. The input device may be a touch sensor, a touch screen display, a button, a rotatable knob, or other device that gathers user input. The input device may be reachable by different users occupying different respective seats. The sensor may be an infrared optical sensor that emits infrared light and measures the emitted infrared light after the emitted infrared light has reflected from the hand of a user. The sensor may determine from these hand measurements which of the different users is supplying user input to the input device. Hand distance information and other information on the current user of the input device may also be gathered. The input device may be deployed by an actuator based on hand speed information.