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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Michel Pahud, Kirkland, WA (US);
Johnson T. Apacible, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Sasa Junuzovic, Kirkland, WA (US);
David W. Brown, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In some examples, a system senses the location of a stylus or finger of a user relative to a virtual displayed object to determine when a virtual touch occurs. Upon or after such a determination, the system may generate a haptic action that indicates to the user that the virtual touch occurred. The haptic action may be located on a particular portion of a haptic device, which may be a handheld device. The particular portion may correspond to the location where the virtual displayed object was virtually touched. In this way, the user may receive physical feedback associated with the virtual touch of the virtual displayed object. In some examples, the virtual displayed object may change in response to the virtual touch, thus further providing visual and physical feedback associated with the virtual touch of the virtual displayed object to the user.