Systems and methods for deformation and haptic effects
AssigneeImmersion Corporation
InventorsVincent Levesque, Abdelwahab Hamam, Danny A. Grant
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Abstract
Systems and methods for deformation and haptic effects are disclosed. For example, one method includes the steps of receiving a sensor signal from a sensor, the sensor signal indicating a contact with a device and a location of the contact on the device; determining a deformation effect based on the contact and the location of the contact, the deformation effect configured to cause a change in a shape of the device; and outputting the deformation effect to a deformation device configured to change the shape of the device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a mobile computing device, one or more sensor signals from at least one sensor, the one or more sensor signals indicating contacts with the mobile computing device and pressures of the respective contacts;
- responsive to determining that the mobile computing device is in an idle state, outputting an idle state deformation effect comprising:
- determining an idle state deformation effect to equalize sensed pressures on the mobile computing device;
- and
- communicating the idle state deformation effect to a deformation device configured to change the shape of the mobile computing device;
- and
- responsive to determining, by the mobile computing device while in the idle state, to output a notification:
- determining a notification deformation effect different from the idle state deformation effect;
- and
- outputting the notification deformation effect to the deformation device.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a mobile computing device, one or more sensor signals from at least one sensor;
- determining, by the mobile computing device, a usage context of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the one or more sensor signals;
- determining, by the mobile computing device, a deformation effect based on the usage context;
- and
- communicating, mobile computing device, the deformation effect to a deformation device configured to change the shape of the mobile computing device.
A mobile computing device comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the processor configured to execute processor-executable instructions stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium to cause the processor to:
- receive one or more sensor signals from at least one sensor;
- determine a usage context of the computing device based at least in part on the one or more sensor signals;
- determine a deformation effect based on the usage context;
- and
- communicate the deformation effect to a deformation device configured to change the shape of the mobile computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.