Patent ID: 9389727
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A touch sensor for a touch-sensitive device comprising: a plurality of electrodes of a touchscreen display of the touch-sensitive device; a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of electrodes, the controller operable to: access data from a motion sensor of the touch-sensitive device; access a plurality of signals from the plurality of electrodes, the plurality of signals indicative of an amount of capacitance between the plurality of electrodes and one or more fingers of a user; after determining that the data from the motion sensor indicates that the touch-sensitive device is moving, determine, based on the plurality of signals from the plurality of electrodes, a particular hand of the user that is holding the touch-sensitive device; wherein when the spatial orientation is determined to be a vertical orientation, the particular hand of the user that is holding the touch-sensitive device is determined based on touch patterns directly on left and right edges of the touchscreen display of the touch-sensitive device; when the plurality of signals from the plurality of electrodes indicate a single touch location directly on a left edge of the touchscreen display and two or more touch locations directly on a right edge of the touchscreen display, the particular hand of the user is determined to be a left hand of the user; and when the plurality of signals from the plurality of electrodes indicate a single touch location directly on the right edge of the touchscreen display and two or more touch locations directly on the left edge of the touchscreen display, the particular hand of the user is determined to be a right hand of the user.