Tactile graphical display
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsChristopher J. Hardee, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for generating a visual and tactile representation of a plurality of flexed pages associated with a set of data and presented on a graphical display. The graphical display may sense a plurality of flexural states and model respective tactile gradients according to the plurality of flexural states. For a flexural state meeting a set of criteria, the tactile gradient may be applied to the graphical display by distributing a selective volume contained with the graphical display.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- monitoring a flexural state of a graphical display presenting a current page of a document having a plurality of pages;
- determining a change from a first flexural state to a second flexural state of the graphical display is above a first threshold;
- defining, in response to determining the change from the first flexural state to the second flexural state is above a first threshold, a tactile gradient comprising a plurality of discrete surfaces representing at least a portion of the plurality of pages of the document, wherein a first surface of the plurality of discrete surfaces comprises a different geometry with respect to a second surface of the plurality of discrete surfaces, and wherein no two surfaces of the plurality of discrete surfaces are coplanar;
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- applying the tactile gradient to the graphical display by distributing a selective volume within a portion of the graphical display.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- monitoring a flexural state of a graphical display presenting a current page of a document having a plurality of pages;
- determining a change from a first flexural state to a second flexural state of the graphical display is above a first threshold;
- defining, in response to determining the change from the first flexural state to the second flexural state is above a first threshold, a tactile gradient comprising a plurality of discrete surfaces representing at least a portion of the plurality of pages of the document, wherein a first surface of the plurality of discrete surfaces comprises a different geometry with respect to a second surface of the plurality of discrete surfaces, and wherein no two surfaces of the plurality of discrete surfaces are coplanar;
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- applying the tactile gradient to the graphical display by distributing a selective volume within a portion of the graphical display.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
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- a computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions which, when executed by the processor, are configured to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- monitoring a flexural state of a graphical display presenting a current page of a document having a plurality of pages;
- determining a change from a first flexural state to a second flexural state of the graphical display is above a first threshold;
- defining, in response to determining the change from the first flexural state to the second flexural state is above a first threshold, a tactile gradient comprising a plurality of discrete surfaces representing at least a portion of the plurality of pages of the document, wherein a first surface of the plurality of discrete surfaces comprises a different geometry with respect to a second surface of the plurality of discrete surfaces, and wherein no two surfaces of the plurality of discrete surfaces are coplanar;
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- applying the tactile gradient to the graphical display by distributing a selective volume within a portion of the graphical display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.