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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Shoham Dekel, Tel Aviv, IL;
Assaf Bar-Ness, Ness Zionna, IL;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples are disclosed that relate to applying haptic output to a touch-sensitive input device. One example provides a touch-sensitive input device comprising a body, a haptic feedback mechanism within the body, a sensor subsystem, a logic processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive from the sensor subsystem sensor data indicating locations along the body of a plurality of contact points between a user hand and the body, based at least in part on the sensor data, determine a touch profile of the user hand applied to the body, based at least in part on the touch profile of the user hand, determine a selected haptic output to be applied to the body, and cause a drive signal to be transmitted to the haptic feedback mechanism to apply the selected haptic output to the body.