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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2017
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dustin Jeffery Gordon Krogstad, Chino, CA (US);
Cleveland-Joel Chavez Wilcox, West Chester, OH (US);
Matthew Robert Schwab, Pasadena, CA (US);
Riccardo DeSalvo, Pasadena, CA (US);
David R. Perek, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ravish Mehra, Redmond, WA (US);
Sean Jason Keller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ian Andreas Marquez, Whittier, CA (US);
Sabrina Monique Sandoval, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A haptic device provides haptic sensation to a user. The haptic device comprises a haptic plate and a plurality of actuators. The haptic plate includes a center portion and an outer portion that circumscribes the center portion. The plurality of actuators is coupled to the outer portion of the haptic plate. Of the plurality of actuators, one or more actuators are configured to generate, in accordance with haptic instructions, a haptic wave that converges to a specific waveform at a specific region of the center portion of the haptic plate. The shape of the specific waveform and the location of the specific region on the center portion of the haptic plate are based in part on the haptic instructions.