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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jessica Julie Tran, Renton, WA (US);
Patrick Thomas Gaule, Bothell, WA (US);
John Richard Porter, III, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Catherine Marie Baker, Seattle, WA (US);
Dillon Taylor Baker, Seattle, WA (US);
Brannon James Zahand, Issaquah, WA (US);
Harrison Tu, Riverside, CA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a refreshable braille display accessory for a game controller that includes a housing sized to be received by a handheld game controller, a braille display including a plurality of pins arranged in a plurality of braille cells, each of the plurality of braille cells to provide tactile feedback representative of individual braille characters, and a control circuit enclosed within the housing to control refreshable activation of at least a portion of the plurality of pins based at least in part on a translation of game text or game audio.