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- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for representing user interface metaphors as physical changes on a shape-changing device
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Application No.: US13495235Application Date: 2012-06-13
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Publication No.: US09703378B2Publication Date: 2017-07-11
- Inventor: David M. Birnbaum , Li Jiang , Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez , Ali Modarres , Christophe Ramstein , Danny A. Grant
- Applicant: David M. Birnbaum , Li Jiang , Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez , Ali Modarres , Christophe Ramstein , Danny A. Grant
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Immersion Corporation
- Current Assignee: Immersion Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Medler Ferro Woodhouse & Mills PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G09G5/34 ; G06F3/01 ; G06F3/0481
Abstract:
An electronic device having a user interface device that has a flexible surface, a haptic output device operatively coupled to the flexible surface and configured to cause a deformation of the flexible surface, and a controller in signal communication with the haptic output device. The controller is configured to trigger the haptic output device to cause the deformation of the flexible surface based on a simulated physical behavior of a virtual element represented on the user interface.
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