UNLOCKING ELECTRONIC DEVICES USING TOUCH-BASED SENSORS

Patent №

US 11,113,373

Granted

2021-09-07

Filed 2018

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16074456

In some examples, an electronic device includes a touch-based sensor, a proximity sensor, and a processor to in response to determining, based on output from the proximity sensor, that the electronic device is in an enclosed space: determine whether a specified number of multiple touches of the touch-based sensor has been detected by the touch-based sensor, and in response to determining that the specified number of multiple touches of the touch-based sensor has been detected by the touch-based sensor, unlock the electronic device.

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AI classification

Knowledge representation0.61
Speech0.13
AI hardware0.07
Planning0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

assignment · 470950873

Assignors

MUKUNDAN, SUDISH, KRUGER, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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