- Patent Title: Accessibility path guiding through microfluidics on a touch screen
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Application No.: US15422591Application Date: 2017-02-02
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Publication No.: US09836126B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Vijay Ekambaram , Sarbajit K. Rakshit
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Brown & Michaels, PC
- Agent Maeve Carpenter
- Main IPC: G06F3/01
- IPC: G06F3/01 ; G06F3/041 ; G06F3/16 ; G09B21/00

Abstract:
Providing accessibility path guidance on a display presented on a touch screen of a device with microfluidics. The fluid is selectively applied to a portion of the touch screen by a computer of the device to raise a portion of the touch screen. The computer loads a display on the touch screen which requires user input. The flow information regarding the display is fetched and a computer of the device detects that the user has touched the touch screen at a point. The computer uses microfluidics to create a physical ridge on the touch screen corresponding to a flow path connecting the point on the touch screen in which the user is currently touching to a touch point within an object field which requires user input. Once the user has reached the object field by following the physical ridge through touch, the physical ridge is removed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170147071A1 ACCESSIBILITY PATH GUIDING Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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