公开(公告)号：US10149036B1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-04

申请号：US15418432

申请日：2017-01-27

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Thad Eugene Starner ,  Karissa A. Sawyer ,  Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041 ,  H01B7/00 ,  H01B7/18

Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices for preventing false positives with an interactive cord. An interactive cord includes a cable, and fabric cover that covers the cable. The fabric cover includes one or more conductive threads woven into the fabric cover to form one or more capacitive touchpoints which are configured to enable reception of touch input that causes a change in capacitance to the one or more conductive threads. A controller, implemented at the interactive cord or a computing device coupled to the interactive cord, can detect the change in capacitance and trigger one or more functions associated with the one or more capacitive touchpoints. In one or more implementations, the interactive cord is designed to prevent “false positives” which may occur from accidental contact with the touchpoints, such as when the interactive cord makes contact with the user's body or a conductive surface.

公开(公告)号：US10402020B1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US15352411

申请日：2016-11-15

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Thad Eugene Starner ,  Karissa A. Sawyer ,  Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman ,  Jonathan Moeller ,  Nidhi Rathi ,  Jianyi Liu ,  Yao Ding ,  Chi Kin Benjamin Leung

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041 ,  H04R1/10 ,  G06F3/16

Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices for detecting twist input with an interactive cord. An interactive cord may be constructed with one or more conductive yarns wrapped around a cable in a first direction (e.g., clockwise), and one or more conductive yarns wrapped around the cable in a second direction that is opposite the first direction (e.g., counter-clockwise). A controller measures one or more capacitance values associated with the conductive yarns. In response to detecting a change in the one or more capacitance values, the controller determines that the change in the capacitance values corresponds to twist input caused by the user twisting the interactive cord. Then, the controller initiates one or more functions based on the twist input, such as by controlling audio to a headset by increasing or decreasing the volume, scrolling through menu items, and so forth.

公开(公告)号：US09807852B1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-31

申请号：US15202465

申请日：2016-07-05

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Thad Eugene Starner ,  Karissa A. Sawyer ,  Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman

IPC: H05B37/02 ,  H05B33/08 ,  H04R1/10 ,  H04W68/00

CPC classification number: H05B37/0227 ,  H04R1/1033 ,  H04R1/1041 ,  H05B33/0842

Abstract: This document describes an interactive cord with integrated light sources. An interactive cord includes a cable, and a fabric cover that covers the cable. The fabric cover includes one or more conductive threads woven into the fabric cover to form one or more capacitive touchpoints which are configured to enable reception of touch input. The fabric cover further includes one or more light sources. A controller, implemented at the interactive cord or a computing device coupled to the interactive cord, can detect touch input to a capacitive touchpoint and trigger one or more functions. In addition, the controller can control the light sources to output light to visually indicate a position of the capacitive touchpoint on the fabric cover and/or to provide feedback by outputting light responsive to detecting touch input to a respective capacitive touchpoint.

公开(公告)号：US10047459B1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-14

申请号：US15418470

申请日：2017-01-27

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Thad Eugene Starner ,  Karissa A. Sawyer ,  Greg Ellis Priest-Dorman

IPC: H04R1/02 ,  D03D1/00 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/16 ,  D03D3/02

Abstract: This document describes interactive cords. An interactive cord includes a cable, and fabric cover that covers the cable. The fabric cover includes one or more conductive threads woven into the fabric cover to form one or more capacitive touchpoints which are configured to enable reception of touch input that causes a change in capacitance to the one or more conductive threads. A controller, implemented at the interactive cord or a computing device coupled to the interactive cord, can detect the change in capacitance and trigger one or more functions associated with the one or more capacitive touchpoints. For example, when implemented as a cord for a headset, the controller can control audio to the headset, such as by playing the audio, pausing the audio, adjusting the volume of the audio, skipping ahead in the audio, skipping backwards in the audio, skipping to additional audio, and so forth.