US 11,755,124 B1
System for improving user input recognition on touch surfaces
Michele Stoppa, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Waleed Abdulla, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Henning Tjaden, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Sree Harsha Kalli, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Senem E. Emgin, Los Altos, CA (US); John B. Morrell, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Seung Wook Kim, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/448,807.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/243,517, filed on Sep. 13, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,481, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0219 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0213 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at a processor of an electronic device:
detecting first movement data for a hand of a user in relation to a physical keyboard at a first location on the physical keyboard, comprising:
obtaining contact data related to the first movement data from one or more contact sensors of a user input device, and
obtaining non-contact data, from one or more non-contact sensors, related to the first movement data, wherein the one or more contact sensors are different than the one or more non-contact sensors;
classifying the first movement data as a tracking movement based on the contact data and the non-contact data; and
processing the first movement data to obtain first user input corresponding to the first movement in accordance with the first movement data being classified as a tracking movement.