Flexible multi-layer sensing surface

US10338753B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Greg Saul · Cambridge, GB
• Daniel Jonathan Finchley Cletheroe · Stapleford, GB
• Nicolas Villar · Cambridge, GB
• Haiyan Zhang · Nanhu, CN
• Oscar Salandin · Cambridge, GB
• Christian Holz · Dortmund, DE
• Andrew William Fitzgibbon · Cambridge, GB
• Stephen E. Hodges · Cambridge, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 8, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 2, 2019
• Expiry date: Dec 11, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2203/04106
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A flexible multi-layer sensing surface comprises a first flexible layer and a second flexible layer. The first flexible layer is a sensing layer and the second sensing layer is another sensing layer or an output layer. The sensing surface also comprises a calibration module which is configured to use the first flexible sensing layer to detect the relative position of the first and second flexible layers and this detected relative position is then used to update one or more stored operating parameters.