US Patent:
20190208837, Jul 11, 2019
Inventors:
- Mountain View CA, US
Carsten C. Schwesig - San Francisco CA, US
Mustafa Emre Karagozler - Mountain View CA, US
Hakim K. Raja - Mountain View CA, US
David Scott Allmon - Sunnyvale CA, US
Gerard George Pallipuram - Cupertino CA, US
Shiho Fukuhara - Tokyo, JP
Assignee:
Google LLC - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
A41D 1/00
G06F 3/044
G06F 1/16
G06F 3/0488
D02G 3/12
G06F 3/041
D03D 1/00
Abstract:
This document describes techniques using, and objects embodying, an interactive fabric which is configured to sense user interactions in the form of single or multi-touch-input (e.g., gestures). The interactive fabric may be integrated into a wearable interactive garment (e.g., a jacket, shirt, or pants) that is coupled (e.g., via a wired or wireless connection) to a gesture manager. The gesture manager may be implemented at the interactive garment, or remote from the interactive garment, such as at a computing device that is wirelessly paired with the interactive garment and/or at a remote cloud based service. Generally, the gesture manager recognizes user interactions to the interactive fabric, and in response, triggers various different types of functionality, such as answering a phone call, sending a text message, creating a journal entry, and so forth.