Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tactile feedback man-machine interface device
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Application No.: US11981256Application Date: 2007-10-30
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Publication No.: US08368641B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Marc R. Tremblay , Mark H. Yim
- Applicant: Marc R. Tremblay , Mark H. Yim
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Immersion Corporation
- Current Assignee: Immersion Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Main IPC: G09G5/00
- IPC: G09G5/00

Abstract:
A man-machine interface which provides tactile feedback to various sensing body parts is disclosed. The device employs one or more vibrotactile units, where each unit comprises a mass and a mass-moving actuator. As the mass is accelerated by the mass-moving actuator, the entire vibrotactile unit vibrates. Thus, the vibrotactile unit transmits a vibratory stimulus to the sensing body part to which it is affixed. The vibrotactile unit may be used in conjunction with a spatial placement sensing device which measures the spatial placement of a measured body part. A computing device uses the spatial placement of the measured body part to determine the desired vibratory stimulus to be provided by the vibrotactile unit. In this manner, the computing device may control the level of vibratory feedback perceived by the corresponding sensing body part in response to the motion of the measured body part. The sensing body part and the measured body part may be separate or the same body part.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080055248A1 Tactile feedback man-machine interface device Public/Granted day:2008-03-06
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