Interactive textiles

Abstract

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.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62 / 038,152, filed August 15, 2014, entitled "Interactive Fabrics," the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference . Background technique [0003] Currently, producing touch sensors can be complex and expensive, especially if the touch sensor is intended to be thin, flexible, or suitable for a variety of different kinds of uses. For example, traditional touchpads are generally inflexible and expensive to produce and integrate into objects. Contents of the invention [0004] This document describes Interactive Fabric. The interactive fabric includes a mesh of conductive threads woven into the interactive fabric to form capacitive touch sensors configured to detect touch input. The interactive fabric is able to process touch input to generate touch data that can be used to control various remote device...

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[0003] Currently, producing touch sensors can be complex and expensive, especially if the intent is to make the touch sensor thin, flexible, or suitable for a variety of different kinds of uses

For example, traditional touchpads are usually inflexible and expensive to produce and integrate into objects

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