Simulation of control areas on touch surface using haptic feedback
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorXin Feng
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Abstract
An aspect provides an information handling device, including: a touch sensitive surface; one or more processors; a memory device storing instructions accessible to the one or more processors, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to: detect one or more non-operational touch inputs to the touch sensitive surface; map the one or more non-operational touch inputs to a predetermined haptic effect selected from a plurality of predetermined haptic effects mapped to regions of the touch sensitive surface; and provide the predetermined haptic effect via a haptic layer of the touch sensitive surface. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Claims17
An information handling device, comprising:
- a touch sensitive surface;
- one or more processors;
- a memory device storing instructions accessible to the one or more processors, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to:
- detect one or more non-operational touch inputs to a border area dividing two touch sensitive sub-areas within the touch sensitive surface;
- map the one or more non-operational touch inputs to a predetermined haptic effect, wherein the predetermined haptic effect is based upon a context determined from an input type of the one or more non-operational touch inputs;
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- provide the predetermined haptic effect via a haptic layer of the touch sensitive surface.
A method, comprising:
- detecting one or more non-operational touch inputs to a border area dividing two touch sensitive sub-areas within a touch sensitive surface of an information handling device;
- mapping the one or more non-operational touch inputs to a predetermined haptic effect, wherein the predetermined haptic effect is based upon a context determined from an input type associated with the one or more non-operational touch inputs;
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- providing the predetermined haptic effect via a haptic layer of the touch sensitive surface.
A computer program product, comprising:
- a storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code being executable by a processor and comprising:
- computer readable program code that detects one or more non-operational touch inputs to a border area dividing two touch sensitive sub-areas within the touch sensitive surface;
- computer readable program code that maps the one or more non-operational touch inputs to a predetermined haptic effect, wherein the predetermined haptic effect is based upon a context determined from an input type associated with the one or more non-operational touch inputs;
- computer readable program code that provides the predetermined haptic effect via a haptic layer of the touch sensitive surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.