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US 2019/0219465 A1Published application
Piezoresistive sensors and sensor arrays
AssigneeBeBop Sensors, Inc.
InventorsKeith McMillen, Conner Lacy
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Abstract
Highly expressive and flexibly programmable foot-operated controllers are described. Specific implementations are intended for musical applications and allow musicians an unprecedented degree of control of a wide variety of musical components and subsystems for recording and/or performance.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a substrate having two conductive traces on a surface thereof;
- fabric characterized by a resistance that changes in response to time-varying pressure, the fabric being configured to contact the surface of the dielectric substrate and both of the conductive traces;
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- circuitry configured to receive a signal from one of the conductive traces, the sensor circuitry also being configured to generate data based on the signal, the data representing the time-varying pressure.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a substrate having a plurality of conductive traces on a surface thereof;
- a plurality of pieces of fabric, each piece of fabric being characterized by a resistance that changes in response to time-varying pressure, each piece of fabric being configured to contact the surface of the dielectric substrate and a corresponding pair of the conductive traces;
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- circuitry configured to receive a signal from each of the pairs of the conductive traces, the sensor circuitry also being configured to generate data based on the signals, the data representing the time-varying pressure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.