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US 2020/0004376 A1Published application
Information Handling System Touch Device with Adaptive Haptic Response
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsMichiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Mark R. Ligameri, Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison
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Abstract
A totem provides inputs with touches on a touchscreen display by reference to a totem user interface that defines a presentation on the touchscreen display.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a processor operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory interfaced with the processor to store the instructions and information;
- a graphics processor interfaced with the processor and operable to generate visual information from the information, the visual information defining visual images;
- a touchscreen display interfaced with the graphics processor and operable to present the visual images and to detect touches at the touchscreen display;
- a totem disposed on the touchscreen display, the totem having a predetermined touch pattern at the touchscreen display and integrating a haptic device;
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- a totem user interface manager executing on the processor and interfaced with the graphics processor and the haptic device, the totem user interface manager presenting at the touchscreen display a selected one of plural totem user interfaces, each totem user interface associating totem movement with predetermined input values, the totem user interface manager assigning a haptic response to the haptic device based upon the totem user interface presented at the touchscreen display.
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The information handling system of 1 wherein the haptic response comprises a vibration if a totem moves across the touchscreen display by more than a predetermined distance.
A method for managing inputs by an object at a touchscreen display, the method comprising:
- placing the object on the touchscreen display;
- selecting a user interface from plural user interfaces, the user interface for presentation proximate the object, the user interface defining input values associated with movement of the object on the touchscreen display;
- selecting a haptic response from plural haptic responses, the haptic response for application at the object based upon the user interface;
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- actuating a haptic device at the object according to the haptic response and movement of the object.
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A totem comprising:
- a main body having a lower surface with a predetermined touch pattern;
- a haptic device integrated in the main body and operable to generate a haptic response at the main body;
- a controller interfaced with the haptic device and operable to selectively actuate the haptic response;
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- a wireless communication device interfaced with the controller and a totem user interface manager;
- wherein the totem user interface manager selects a totem user interface from plural totem user interfaces and a haptic response from plural haptic responses for application by the controller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.