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US 10,327,974 B2Granted
Haptic implants
AssigneeImmersion Corporation
InventorsVincent Levesque, David M. Birnbaum, Benoit Paul Belley, Jamal Saboune, Abdelwahab Hamam, Ravikumar Patel, Christopher Ullrich, Mohammadreza Motamedi, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to haptic devices for implantation in a human subject. Such haptic devices can include various actuators, including both active and passive haptic actuators, for providing feedback to a user.
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A passive haptic device, comprising:
- a biocompatible encapsulating material;
- a passive haptic actuator having a programmed polarity contained within the biocompatible encapsulating material;
- and
- a sensor contained with the biocompatible encapsulating material configured to determine whether a sensed phenomena crosses a threshold sufficient to trigger haptic feedback,
- wherein the passive haptic device is configured for implanting within a body of a user,
- wherein the passive haptic actuator, in response to an actuation signal from an external actuation component or in response to the sensed phenomena crossing the threshold, provides the haptic feedback to the user, and wherein the passive haptic device does not include a power source.
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A method of providing haptic feedback to a user, comprising:
- a. sensing a phenomenon via a sensor contained within a biocompatible encapsulating material of a haptic device implanted within a body of the user, the haptic device further including a passive haptic actuator having a programmed polarity contained within the biocompatible encapsulating material;
- b. determining whether the phenomenon crosses a threshold sufficient to trigger the haptic feedback;
- c. determining a passive haptic actuator response based on the phenomenon;
- and
- d. actuating the passive haptic actuator response.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.