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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2017
Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
David M. Birnbaum, Oakland, CA (US);
Li Jiang, Union City, CA (US);
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Montreal, CA;
Ali Modarres, Mont-Royal, CA;
Christophe Ramstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Danny A. Grant, Lavel, CA;
Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device having a user interface device that has a flexible surface, a haptic output device operatively coupled to the flexible surface and configured to cause a deformation of the flexible surface, and a controller in signal communication with the haptic output device. The controller is configured to trigger the haptic output device to cause the deformation of the flexible surface based on a simulated physical behavior of a virtual element represented on the user interface.