Method for Actuating a Tactile Interface Layer

Patent №

US 8,970,403

Granted

2015-03-03

Filed 2011

Owner

TACTUS TECHNOLOGY

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13090217

A method for actuating a tactile interface layer of a device that defines a surface with a deformable region, comprising the steps of deforming a deformable region of the surface into a formation tactilely distinguishable from the surface, detecting a force from the user on a deformed deformable region, interpreting the force as a command for the deformable region, and manipulating the deformable region of the surface based on the command.

AI hardwareG06F 3/016G06F 3/0202G06F 3/04883G06F 3/04886G06F 2203/04809

AI classification

AI hardware0.98
Planning0.11
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

TACTUS TECHNOLOGY

assignment · 266750683

Assignors

CIESLA, CRAIG MICHAEL, YAIRI, MICAH B., SAAL, NATHANIEL MARK

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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