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- Patent Title: Pressure sensitive key normalization
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Application No.: US14794182Application Date: 2015-07-08
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Publication No.: US09852855B2Publication Date: 2017-12-26
- Inventor: Timothy Carlyle Shaw , Jim Tom Belesiu , Paul Henry Dietz , Christopher Harry Stoumbos , Dennis J. Mathias
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Main IPC: H01H13/79
- IPC: H01H13/79 ; H01H13/785 ; H01H13/703 ; H01H13/807 ; H01H13/78 ; G06F3/02 ; H05K5/02 ; G06F1/16 ; H04M1/02 ; H04M1/725 ; G05B11/01 ; G06F3/041 ; H01H13/704 ; G06F3/00 ; G06F3/01 ; H01H13/702 ; H01H13/14 ; G06F9/54 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F3/023 ; G06F3/0488 ; G06F3/0487 ; E05D11/10 ; E05F5/08 ; F16M11/38 ; G06F13/10 ; H01H11/00 ; H01H13/82 ; H01H9/26

Abstract:
Pressure sensitive key techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a device includes at least one pressure sensitive key having a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, the flexible contact layer configured to flex responsive to pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input, for a computing device, associated with the pressure sensitive key. At least one of the flexible contact layer or the sensor substrate are configured to at least partially normalize an output resulting from pressure applied at a first location of the flexible contact layer with an output resulting from pressure applied at a second location of the flexible contact layer that has lesser flexibility than the first location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150311014A1 Pressure Sensitive Key Normalization Public/Granted day:2015-10-29
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