Interactive textiles

摘要

This document describes interactive textiles. An interactive textile includes a grid of conductive thread woven into the interactive textile to form a capacitive touch sensor that is configured to detect touch-input. The interactive textile can process the touch-input to generate touch data that is useable to control various remote devices. For example, the interactive textiles may aid users in controlling volume on a stereo, pausing a movie playing on a television, or selecting a webpage on a desktop computer. Due to the flexibility of textiles, the interactive textile may be easily integrated within flexible objects, such as clothing, handbags, fabric casings, hats, and so forth. In one or more implementations, the interactive textiles may be integrated within various hard objects, such as by injection molding the interactive textile into a plastic cup, a hard casing of a smart phone, and so forth.

主权项

1. A flexible object comprising:
an interactive textile integrated within the flexible object, the interactive textile comprising a grid of conductive thread woven into the interactive textile; a textile controller coupled to the grid of conductive thread, the textile controller configured to: detect touch-input on the grid of conductive thread by detecting a change in capacitance between crossing conductive threads when an object touches the grid of conductive thread at a position corresponding to the crossing conductive threads; and process the touch-input to provide touch data usable to control a computing device or an application at the computing device.