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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rafeed A. Chaudhury, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicolai Munk Petersen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steve Albert Oh, San Francisco, CA (US);
Demetrious Mark Harrington, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ara Knaian, Newton, MA (US);
Shahriar Khushrushahi, Cambridge, MA (US);
Elena Koukina, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rachel Chaney, Nahant, MA (US);
Veton Saliu, Somerville, MA (US);
Yvan Stephane Pearson Lecours, Cambridge, MA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides touch communication devices that can convey touch information to a human user and/or receive touch information from the human user. As one example, a touch communication device can include a plurality of tactile units. The touch communication device can individually control each of the tactile units to apply a respective pressure to a surface adjacent to such tactile unit. For example, the touch communication device can control the plurality of tactile units to convey a touch communication to a human user that has the touch communication device adjacent to a portion of his body. As another example, the touch communication device is configured to determine a counter-pressure applied to each tactile unit by the surface adjacent to such tactile unit. The touch communication device can generate information descriptive of a touch communication performed by the human user on the touch communication device.