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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2019
Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey George Leinbaugh, Kirkland, WA (US);
Eric James Hope, Bellevue, WA (US);
Philip Bryan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Scott Richard Britt, Kirkland, WA (US);
Scott Nietfeld, Bellevue, WA (US);
Claire Michelle Gottschalk, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jeremy Slocum, Sammamish, WA (US);
Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A controller for an electronic system includes a controller body having a handle portion, a tracking arc that is fixed to the controller body, and a hand retainer configured to physically bias a user's palm against an outside surface of the handle portion. A plurality of tracking sensors is disposed in the tracking arc, and are responsive to electromagnetic radiation emitted by the electronic system. An array of proximity sensors are spatially distributed around the outer surface of the handle portion, and are responsive to a proximity of the user's fingers to the outside surface of the handle portion.