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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2009
Daniel Rosenfeld, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Westhues, Bellevue, WA (US);
Shahram Izadi, Cambridge, GB;
Nicolas Villar, Cambridge, GB;
Hrvoje Benko, Seattle, WA (US);
John Helmes, Cambridge, GB;
Kurt Allen Jenkins, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel Rosenfeld, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Westhues, Bellevue, WA (US);
Shahram Izadi, Cambridge, GB;
Nicolas Villar, Cambridge, GB;
Hrvoje Benko, Seattle, WA (US);
John Helmes, Cambridge, GB;
Kurt Allen Jenkins, Sammamish, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are disclosed herein that are related to input devices with curved multi-touch surfaces. For example, in one disclosed embodiment, a method of making a multi-touch input device having a curved touch-sensitive surface comprises forming on a substrate an array of sensor elements defining a plurality of pixels of the multi-touch sensor, forming the substrate into a shape that conforms to a surface of the curved geometric feature of the body of the input device, and fixing the substrate to the curved geometric feature of the body of the input device.