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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2015
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') assembly, 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 a signal indicative of the force to the assembly. The signal may be processed to determine a particular touch zone was activated. A particular action associated with the touch zone may be performed. The particular action may be based at least in part on which touch zone which was activated, a magnitude of the force, or both. For example, the particular action may include a haptic output to provide feedback to a user.