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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Ilya Daniel Rosenberg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lakshman Rathnam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nadim Awad, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Aaron Zarraga, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Charles Buuck, Prunedale, CA (US);
Julien George Beguin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
User input is accepted by a force sensing resistor ('FSR') assembly, a force sensing capacitor ('FSC') or both. The FSR or FSC assemblies may be located within an input device, such as behind a device exterior, display, and so forth. A force applied to the device exterior proximate to the assembly may result in activation of the assembly. The activation may be processed as input and used to determine and then perform a particular action. The particular action may be based at least in part on a particular portion of the assembly which has been activated, a magnitude of applied force, or both. A haptic output may be provided on activation to provide feedback to a user.