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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2016
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Thad Eugene Starner, Atlanta, GA (US);
Karissa A. Sawyer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman, Berkeley, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
This document describes an interactive cord with integrated light sources. An interactive cord includes a cable, and a fabric cover that covers the cable. The fabric cover includes one or more conductive threads woven into the fabric cover to form one or more capacitive touchpoints which are configured to enable reception of touch input. The fabric cover further includes one or more light sources. A controller, implemented at the interactive cord or a computing device coupled to the interactive cord, can detect touch input to a capacitive touchpoint and trigger one or more functions. In addition, the controller can control the light sources to output light to visually indicate a position of the capacitive touchpoint on the fabric cover and/or to provide feedback by outputting light responsive to detecting touch input to a respective capacitive touchpoint.