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Chau H. Nguyen0
Mark T. Winkler0
Mehmet Mutlu0
Michael K. McCord0
Omid Momtahan0
Orit A. Shamir0
Prashanth S. Holenarsipur0
Wenrui Cai0
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Date of Patent
October 26, 2021
0Patent Application Number
201904120
Date Filed
April 12, 2019
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Patent abstract
Disclosed herein are electronic devices having touch input surfaces. A user's touch input or press on the touch input surface is detected using a set of lasers, such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) that emit beams of light toward the touch input surface. The user's touch causes changes in the self-mixing interference within the VCSEL of the emitted light with reflected light, such as from the touch input surface. Deflection and movement (e.g., drag motion) of the user's touch is determined from detected changes in the VCSELs' operation due to the self-mixing interference.
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