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US 12,216,837 B2Granted
Input device and interface device including the same
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsTaehee Lee, Chul Kim, Hee Seomoon, Hyeon Jun Lee
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Abstract
An input device includes: a housing having a transmissive portion; a communicator in the housing and configured to exchange a signal externally; a pressure sensor in the housing along an inner circumferential surface of the housing; and a measurement sensor in the housing and facing the transmissive portion.
Claims19
An input device comprising:
- a housing having a transmissive portion;
- a communicator in the housing and configured to exchange a signal externally;
- a pressure sensor configured to detect a value of a pressure applied on an external circumferential surface of the housing toward an interior of the housing and disposed in the housing along an inner circumferential surface of the housing and curved along the inner circumferential surface of the housing;
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- a measurement sensor in the housing and facing the transmissive portion to transmit or receive light through the transmissive portion,
- wherein a portion of the pressure sensor facing the transmissive portion has an opening.
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An interface device comprising:
- a display device comprising a display layer and a sensor layer on the display layer;
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- an input device configured to receive an uplink signal from the sensor layer and to output a downlink signal to the sensor layer,
- wherein the input device comprises a housing, a measurement sensor and a pressure sensor, and
- wherein the pressure sensor is configured to detect a value of a pressure applied on an external circumferential surface of the housing toward an interior of the housing to measure a blood pressure of a user and is disposed in the housing along an inner circumferential surface of the housing and is curved along the inner circumferential surface of the housing,
- wherein the housing has a transmissive portion facing the measurement sensor, and
- wherein an opening is defined in a portion of the pressure sensor facing the transmissive portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.