US 2016/0077662 A1Published application

Method for adjusting the user interface of a device

AssigneeTactus Technology, Inc.

InventorsCraig Ciesla, Micah Yairi, Nathaniel Mark Saal

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Abstract

A method adjusting a user interface experience for a device that includes providing a user interface to retrieve a user input, providing a tactile interface layer that defines a surface and includes a volume of fluid and a displacement device 10 that manipulates the volume of fluid to deform a particular region of the surface into a tactilely distinguishable formation retrieving a user preference between a first type, location, and/or timing and a second embodiment, location, and/or timing through the user interface, and manipulating the volume of fluid to deform a particular region of the surface into a tactilely distinguishable formation of one of the first and second type, location, and/or timing is disclosed.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A method, for adjusting a user interface of a device, comprising:

on a computing device, receiving a parameter level selection from a range of parameter levels between a minimum parameter level and a maximum parameter level;
storing the parameter level selection as a user preference;
displaying an input graphic on a display of the computing device;
displacing a volume of fluid into a cavity arranged over the input graphic on the display to expand a deformable region corresponding to the input graphic from a retracted setting into an expanded setting, the deformable region flush with an adjacent peripheral region in the retracted setting and offset above the peripheral region in the expanded setting, the volume of fluid corresponding to the user preference;
and
sensing an input on the deformable region.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/955,468Filed 1 Dec 2015
Priority: 3 Jul 2009
Published: 17 Mar 2016
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Classification10 codes

G06F 1/1626
For portable computers: with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
G06F 3/044
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: by capacitive means
G06F 1/1664
Details related to the integrated keyboard: arrangements for ergonomically adjusting the disposition of keys of the integrated keyboard
G06F 3/016
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: input arrangements with force or tactile…

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