US 10,591,995 B2Granted

User interface device responsive to data tag associated with physical location

AssigneeImmersion Corporation

InventorsDanny A. Grant, Erin B. Ramsay, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, David Birnbaum, Robert W. Heubel, Hendrik Bartel, Christopher J. Ullrich

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Abstract

A gaming concept in which each user in a single-player or a multi-player game is enabled to create artwork or graffiti work virtually or on actual surfaces using haptic-enhanced controllers. The controllers can emulate the experience of using a marker, a paint brush, a paint spray-can or the like. The components of various controllers may be modularized for easily interchanging components to extend the art or graffiti creation experience. The real life experience of using ink or paint on a surface is simulated by haptic feedback. When a paint spray-can controller is used, the experience of paint consumption is recreated by various peripheral enhancements including audio and haptic sensations communicated to the user.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A user interface device, comprising:

a haptic actuator configured to generate a haptic effect at the user interface device;
a display device;
a camera configured to capture an image of a physical structure or a physical surface at a current location of the user interface device;
and
a processor in communication with the haptic actuator, the camera, and the display device, and configured:
to determine the current location of the user interface device,
to determine, based on the current location of the user interface device, whether-the user interface device is at a physical location associated with a data tag stored on a host computer separate from the user interface device, wherein the data tag comprises a visual design that comprises one of a logo, a symbol, or a drawing,
in response to a determination that the user interface device is at the physical location associated with the data tag stored on the host computer:
to determine that the haptic effect is to be generated by the haptic actuator of the user interface device,
to control the haptic actuator to generate the haptic effect, and
to control the display device to overlay the visual design of the data tag on the image of the physical structure or the physical surface.

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Facts

Application: 16/213,757Filed 7 Dec 2018 · continuation
Priority: 19 Dec 2008
Published: US 2019/0107892 A111 Apr 2019
Granted: 17 Mar 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 3/016
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: input arrangements with force or tactile…
G06F 3/03545
With detection of two-dimensional [2D] relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D…
G06F 3/041
Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form: digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads,…
G06F 3/0483
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…

Family

Application61/139,506Us provisional application · filed 19 Dec 2008
Application12/642,323Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Dec 2009
Application14/514,026Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Oct 2014
US 8,884,870 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Nov 2014
Application15/621,227Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Jun 2017
US 9,710,064 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Jul 2017
US 2019/0107892 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Apr 2019
US 10,152,134 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2010/0160041 A1Published application
US 2015/0029125 A1Published application
US 2017/0277264 A1Published application
US 10,591,995 B2This patent

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