Playback device with conforming capacitive touch sensor assembly

A headphone device comprising:

• a housing portion comprising a non-flat surface, wherein the housing portion is an earpiece of the headphone device and the earpiece is attached to a headband of the headphone device;
• a flexible touch-sensitive electronic assembly comprising:
• a flexible substrate having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion extends from the first portion, and wherein the first portion is at least partially disposed on the non-flat surface of the housing portion;
• an array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes arranged on the first portion of the flexible substrate;
• and
• a plurality of conductors that are electrically coupled to the array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes and that extend onto the second portion of the flexible substrate,
• wherein the first portion of the flexible substrate includes a plurality of cutouts,
• wherein the plurality of cutouts includes one or more cross-shaped cutouts,
• wherein at least one cross-shaped cutout of the one or more cross-shaped cutouts includes a circular cutout at one or more ends of the at least one cross-shaped cutout, and
• wherein each cutout of a subset of the plurality of cutouts is positioned between a respective set of two or more electrodes in the array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes;
• one or more audio drivers;
• at least one processor;
• at least one communication interface;
• at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• program instructions stored on the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium that are executable by the at least one processor such that the headphone device is configured to:
• receive, via the at least one communication interface, audio content;
• cause the one or more audio drivers to play back the audio content;
• detect, using the flexible touch-sensitive electronic assembly, a touch input;
• and
• after detection of the touch input, modify playback of the audio content based on the touch input.

A wearable device comprising:

• a housing portion configured to be worn by a subject, the housing portion comprising a non-flat surface;
• a flexible touch-sensitive electronic assembly comprising:
• a flexible substrate having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion extends from the first portion, and wherein the first portion is at least partially disposed on the non-flat surface of the housing portion;
• an array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes arranged on the first portion of the flexible substrate;
• and
• a plurality of conductors that are electrically coupled to the array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes and that extend onto the second portion of the flexible substrate,
• wherein the first portion of the flexible substrate includes a plurality of cutouts,
• wherein the plurality of cutouts includes one or more cross-shaped cutouts,
• wherein at least one cross-shaped cutout of the one or more cross-shaped cutouts includes a circular cutout at one or more ends of the at least one cross-shaped cutout, and
• wherein each cutout of a subset of the plurality of cutouts is positioned between a respective set of two or more electrodes in the array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes;
• one or more audio drivers;
• at least one processor;
• at least one communication interface;
• at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• program instructions stored on the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium that are executable by the at least one processor such that the wearable device is configured to:
• receive, via the at least one communication interface, media content;
• cause the one or more audio drivers to play back the media content;
• detect, using the flexible touch-sensitive electronic assembly, a touch input;
• and
• after detection of the touch input, modify playback of the media content based on the touch input.