US 11,886,673 B2 · Trackpad on back portion of a device

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: detecting physical touch of a touch-sensitive component on a back portion of a client device, the client device displaying a graphical user interface on a touch-sensitive display screen of a front portion of the client device; in response to detecting the physical touch, transmitting an electrical signal representing the physical touch of the touch-sensitive component on the back portion of the client device to the touch-sensitive display screen of the front portion of the client device; and causing an operation associated with the graphical user interface to be executed in response to the touch-sensitive display screen receiving the electrical signal representing the physical touch of the touch-sensitive component on the back portion of the client device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

storing a many-to-one correspondence between a first plurality of touch sensors of a touch sensitive component on a back portion of a client device and a first capacitor on a touch-sensitive display screen of a front portion of the client device;
and
in response to detecting simultaneous physical touch of the first plurality of touch sensors, transmitting an electrical signal representing the simultaneous physical touch to the first capacitor, the first capacitor comprising a conductive element of a plurality of conductive elements associated with the touch-sensitive display screen of the front portion of the client device.

A system comprising:

a processor configured to perform operations comprising:
storing a many-to-one correspondence between a first plurality of touch sensors of a touch sensitive component on a back portion of a client device and a first capacitor on a touch-sensitive display screen of a front portion of the client device;
and
in response to detecting simultaneous physical touch of the first plurality of touch sensors, transmitting an electrical signal representing the simultaneous physical touch to the first capacitor, the first capacitor comprising a conductive element of a plurality of conductive elements associated with the touch-sensitive display screen of the front portion of the client device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/063,476Filed 8 Dec 2022 · continuation

Priority

14 May 2020

Published

US 2023/0103517 A16 Apr 2023

Granted

30 Jan 2024

Term ends

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Classification23 codes

G06F 1/1692
The I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys,…:…
G06F 3/0443
By capacitive means: using a single layer of sensing electrodes
G06F 3/02
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: input arrangements using manually operated…
G06F 3/0202
Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials: constructional details or processes of manufacture of the…

Family

Application63/024,696Us provisional application · filed 14 May 2020

Application17/318,806Parent of this continuation · filed 12 May 2021

US 2023/0103517 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Apr 2023

US 11,550,435 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2021/0357075 A1Published application

US 11,886,673 B2This patent

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Trackpad on back portion of a device

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Abstract

Claims20