Touch sensitive control for a tool
OwnerMiroslav VUCKOVICinventor
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Abstract
A tool comprises a housing, a tactile sensing device that is coupled to a portion of the housing and that is configured to detect at least one of a position sensing, gesture sensing, and pressure sensing for the tool, a memory that is configured to store information related to a profile, and a processor that is in communication with the tactile sensing device and the memory. The processor may be configured to monitor an output signal from the tactile sensing device when at least one of a position, gesture or pressure is detected and to retrieve the profile from the memory, compare the output signal from the tactile sensing device with the retrieved profile, and generate a second signal based upon the comparison.
Claims21
A tool comprising:
- a housing;
- a tactile sensing device coupled to a portion of the housing, the tactile sensing device configured to detect at least one of a position sensing, gesture sensing, and pressure sensing for the tool;
- a memory that is configured to store information related to a profile;
- and
- a processor in communication with the tactile sensing device and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to monitor an output signal from the tactile sensing device when at least one of a position, gesture or pressure is detected;
- the processor being further configured to retrieve the profile from the memory, compare the output signal from the tactile sensing device with the retrieved profile, and generate a second signal based upon the comparison.
A method for controlling a tool comprising one or more tactile sensing devices, a processor, a memory, and a power source, said method comprising:
- sensing a signal on a tactile sensing device;
- transmitting the sensed signal to the processor;
- retrieving data including a profile from memory;
- comparing the retrieved data with the sensed signal;
- and
- generating a second signal based upon the comparison of the sensed signal that has been transmitted to the processor to the data retrieved from the memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.