Methods and devices for selectively controlling and varying surface texture and/or force levels on a mobile device using haptic feedback

Mobile devices having haptic interfaces located on an edge or back of mobile phones for selectively controlling and varying surface texture and/or force levels are provided. The haptic interfaces may allow for haptic interaction with the user of the mobile device when audio or visual feedback is not...

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Main Authors TARTZ ROBERT S, WANG HUIHUI, RUUSPAKKA ROGER M, KALEAS DIMOSTHENIS
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 26.11.2014
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Mobile devices having haptic interfaces located on an edge or back of mobile phones for selectively controlling and varying surface texture and/or force levels are provided. The haptic interfaces may allow for haptic interaction with the user of the mobile device when audio or visual feedback is not practical. The haptic interface may be an electro-mechanical system that may include a matrix or array of individually addressable actuators that can convey haptic information through the deformation of a flexible surface or membrane covering the array of individually addressable actuators. The array of "individually addressable" actuators may provide each actuator the ability to be separately addressable or addressable as a group (i.e. two or more) actuators.
Bibliography:Application Number: CN201380013835