COMPUTING DEVICE CHORDING AUTHENTICATION AND CONTROL

摘要

Chording techniques are described that may be utilized in a variety of ways to provide inputs to a computing device. The computing device, for instance, may include sensors disposed on a housing of the computing device such that the sensors are configured to detect fingers of a user when grasping the device. Detection of a likely indexed relative position of the fingers of the user's hand in relation to each other, and even an amount of pressure used by respective ones of the fingers, may be used to define and input chords that may be used to initiate operations of the computing device.

主权项

1. A computing device comprising:
a housing configured to be grasped by at least one hand of a user; a display device secured to the housing; a plurality of sensors secured to the housing and disposed adjacent to a perimeter of the display device; and one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware, the one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising: detecting an orientation of the housing in three dimensional space; recognizing a plurality of inputs detected using the one or more sensors as one or more chords, each of the chords defining a substantially simultaneous collection of inputs by the plurality of sensors that describe a likely indexed relative position of one or more fingers, one to another, of the at least one hand in grasping the housing; and responsive to a determination, based at least in part on the detected orientation, that the one or more chords correspond to stored credentials of the user, authenticating the user to access functionality of the computing device.