US Patent 10281997 Identification of an object on a touch-sensitive surface

Examples disclosed herein describe, among other things, a computing system. The computing system may include, for example, a touch-sensitive surface to obtain a capacitive signature representing an object disposed on the touch-sensitive surface, and a camera to obtain supplemental data representing the object. The system may also include an identification engine to obtain, based at least on the capacitive signature, identification data associated with the object, and to obtain, based at least on the supplemental data, at least one characteristic of the object.