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US 2025/0093965 A1Published application
User input device
AssigneeCirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
InventorsThomas LORENZ, Anthony S. DOY, Nathan A. JOHANNINGSMEIER
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Abstract
A solid state keyboard device comprising a user interaction layer for receiving a user input and a plurality of haptic actuators, wherein the solid state keyboard device is operable to cause one or more of the plurality of haptic actuators to generate a haptic output at the user interaction layer in response to a received user input, wherein one or more parameters of the haptic output are variable according to one or more parameters of or associated with the received user input.
Claims24
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A solid state keyboard device comprising:
- a user interaction layer for receiving a user input;
- and
- a plurality of haptic actuators,
- wherein the solid state keyboard device is operable to cause one or more of the plurality of haptic actuators to generate a haptic output at the user interaction layer in response to the received user input,
- and wherein one or more of the plurality of haptic actuators is operable as an ultrasonic transmitter and/or an ultrasonic sensor.
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A keyboard comprising:
- a plurality of haptic actuators, wherein one or more of the plurality of haptic actuators is operable as an ultrasonic transmitter and/or an ultrasonic sensor;
- and
- a single integrated circuit comprising:
- force-sensing front end circuitry configured to receive a signal from one or more of the plurality of haptic actuators;
- and
- output driver circuitry, wherein the output driver circuitry is configured to supply a haptic drive signal to one or more of the plurality of haptic actuators.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.