METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING USER INTERFACE METAPHORS AS PHYSICAL CHANGES ON A SHAPE-CHANGING DEVICE

Patent №

US 9,703,378

Granted

2017-07-11

Filed 2012

Owner

IMMERSION CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13495235

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.

PlanningG06F 3/016A63F 13/212A63F 13/218A63F 13/285A63F 13/92G06F 3/04815A63F 13/837G06F 2203/014+2 more

AI classification

Planning0.98
AI hardware0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

IMMERSION CORPORATION

assignment · 288310271

Assignors

BIRNBAUM, DAVID M., JIANG, LI, RAMSTEIN, CHRISTOPHE, CRUZ-HERNANDEZ, JUAN MANUEL, MODARRES, ALI, GRANT, DANNY A.

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