Patent ID: 7825910

Claim:
A device comprising: a touchpad including at least first through third zones, the first zone and the third zone being non-adjacent; at least first and second non-overlapping sensors, with the first sensor disposed in at least a portion of the first and the second zones and configured to transmit a first electrical signal in response to a user input, the second sensor disposed in at least a portion of the second and the third zones and configured to transmit a second electrical signal in response to a user input, and a boundary separating the first and second sensors in the second zone; and a controller configured to generate: first information in response to receiving the first electrical signal but not the second electrical signal, second information in response to receiving both the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal, and third information in response to receiving the second electrical signal but not the first electrical signal, wherein the first and second sensors are oriented such that each of the first sensor and the second sensor are intersected by a first linear axis, which is perpendicular to a second linear axis that intersects each of a centroid of the first sensor and a centroid of the second sensor.