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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
Satoshi Nakajima, Redmond, WA (US);
Satoshi Nakajima, Redmond, WA (US);
UIEvolution, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
An interactive apparatus is provided with a display, on which tactilely enhanced (TE) visual images may be rendered, to temporally realize a wide range of user input keys and/or user selectable menu/list items. In one embodiment, the display includes a flexible visual display layer and a tactile display layer, and the apparatus includes corresponding device drivers for controlling rendering on the respective layers. In one embodiment, the apparatus is further provided with graphics functions, which generate in response to a request to render a TE visual image, pixel and piston data of the TE visual image, in accordance with an image specification of the TE visual image, having tactile attributes of the tactile enhancements.