	US 12,216,833 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 Jul. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/355,006.
Application 18/355,006 is a continuation of application No. 17/448,807, filed on Sep. 24, 2021, granted, now 11,755,124.
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

1. A method comprising:

obtaining sensor data for a hand of a user in relation to a physical input device, comprising:

obtaining contact data from one or more contact sensors of the physical input device, and

obtaining non-contact data for the hand of the user from one or more non-contact sensors, wherein the one or more contact sensors are different than the one or more non-contact sensors;

classifying the sensor data as satisfying a tracking mode based on the contact data and the non-contact data; and

processing the sensor data to obtain first user input in accordance with the tracking mode.