System and method for keyboard and palm rest three-dimensional haptic experience

A three-dimensional (3D) haptic keyboard and palm rest experience system for an information handling system, comprising:

• a display device to display a user avatar image and a non-user avatar image within a virtual 3D gaming environment viewable by a user and generated by a gaming application executing at a processor;
• the processor to determine a gaming action event is displayed via the display device, and a position of the gaming action event within the virtual 3D gaming environment, relative to the user avatar image, the gaming action event executed by or acting upon the user avatar image;
• a keyboard controller to identify a key cap of a keyboard having a location with respect to a user that correlates to the position of the gaming action event displayed within the virtual 3D gaming environment, relative to the user avatar image;
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• the keyboard controller to apply a change in voltage, via a printed circuit board assembly, across a piezoelectric actuator disposed beneath the identified key cap, to cause haptic movement in the identified key cap correlated to the position of the gaming action event displayed within the virtual 3D gaming environment.

A method of causing haptic movement correlating to gameplay within a three-dimensional (3D) gaming environment, comprising:

• capturing a plurality of training gameplay images displaying an avatar image located within a virtual 3D gaming environment generated by a gaming application executing at a processor and displayed via a display device;
• training an image recognition model to identify the avatar image, a gaming action event involving the avatar image, and a position of the gaming action event within the captured plurality of training gameplay images, to establish corresponding haptic commands for the gaming action event;
• capturing a live gameplay image displaying the avatar image and the gaming action event involving the avatar image;
• inputting the live gameplay image into the image recognition model to output a haptic command corresponding to the identified avatar image, the gaming action event involving the avatar image, and the position of the gaming action event within the live gameplay image;
• identifying a first portion of a first side of a palm rest top cover forming a first side haptic palm rest region of a combination keyboard and palm rest assembly having a location with respect to a user that correlates to the position of the gaming action event of the avatar image identified by the image recognition model, where the palm rest top cover has the first side with a first array of piezoelectric actuators disposed thereunder and a second side with a second array of piezoelectric actuators disposed thereunder;
• applying a change in voltage, in response to the haptic command, across a piezoelectric actuator in the first array of piezoelectric actuators disposed beneath the first portion of the first side haptic region of the combination keyboard and palm rest assembly, to cause haptic movement in the first portion of the first side haptic region of the combination keyboard and palm rest assembly correlated to the position of the gaming action event displayed within the virtual 3D gaming environment.