US 10,310,610 B2 · Haptic device for artificial reality systems

Abstract

A haptic device provides haptic sensation to a user. The haptic device comprises a haptic plate and a plurality of actuators. The haptic plate includes a center portion and an outer portion that circumscribes the center portion. The plurality of actuators is coupled to the outer portion of the haptic plate. Of the plurality of actuators, one or more actuators are configured to generate, in accordance with haptic instructions, a haptic wave that converges to a specific waveform at a specific region of the center portion of the haptic plate. The shape of the specific waveform and the location of the specific region on the center portion of the haptic plate are based in part on the haptic instructions.

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Dependent claims

A haptic device comprising:

a haptic plate including a center portion and an outer portion that circumscribes the center portion;
and
a plurality of actuators coupled to the outer portion of the haptic plate, the plurality of actuators including:
one or more actuators configured to generate, in accordance with haptic instructions, a haptic wave that converges to a specific waveform at a specific region of the center portion of the plate, wherein a shape of the specific waveform and a location of the specific region on the center portion of the haptic plate are based in part on the haptic instructions, and
another actuator configured to generate a damping response to the specific waveform of the haptic wave.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/788,607Filed 19 Oct 2017

Published

US 2019/0121432 A125 Apr 2019

Granted

4 Jun 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G06F 3/016
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: input arrangements with force or tactile…
A63F 13/211
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
A63F 13/212
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: using sensors worn by the player, e.g. for measuring heart beat or leg activity
A63F 13/25
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions: output arrangements for video game devices

Haptic device for artificial reality systems

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Haptic device for artificial reality systems

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Abstract

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