Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refreshable braille display accessory for a game controller
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Application No.: US15445771Application Date: 2017-02-28
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Publication No.: US10463978B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: Jessica Julie Tran , Patrick Thomas Gaule , John Richard Porter, III , Catherine Marie Baker , Dillon Taylor Baker , Brannon James Zahand , Harrison Tu
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Main IPC: A63F13/00
- IPC: A63F13/00 ; A63F13/98 ; G09B21/00 ; A63F13/25 ; A63F13/85 ; G06F3/01

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes a refreshable braille display accessory for a game controller that includes a housing sized to be received by a handheld game controller, a braille display including a plurality of pins arranged in a plurality of braille cells, each of the plurality of braille cells to provide tactile feedback representative of individual braille characters, and a control circuit enclosed within the housing to control refreshable activation of at least a portion of the plurality of pins based at least in part on a translation of game text or game audio.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180214779A1 REFRESHABLE BRAILLE DISPLAY ACCESSORY FOR A GAME CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2018-08-02
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