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.
Claims19
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 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.
A method, comprising:
- detecting one or more non-operational touch inputs to a touch sensitive surface of an information handling device;
- mapping 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
- 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 comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to detect one or more non-operational touch inputs to the touch sensitive surface;
- computer readable program code configured to 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
- computer readable program code configured to provide the predetermined haptic effect via a haptic layer of the touch sensitive surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.