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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2012
Huihui Wang, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Roger M. Ruuspakka, San Diego, CA (US);
Dimosthenis Kaleas, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert S. Tartz, San Diego, CA (US);
Huihui Wang, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Roger M. Ruuspakka, San Diego, CA (US);
Dimosthenis Kaleas, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert S. Tartz, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Mobile devices having haptic interfaces located on an edge or back of mobile phones for selectively controlling and varying surface texture and/or force levels are provided. The haptic interfaces may allow for haptic interaction with the user of the mobile device when audio or visual feedback is not practical. The haptic interface may be an electro-mechanical system that may include a matrix or array of individually addressable actuators that can convey haptic information through the deformation of a flexible surface or membrane covering the array of individually addressable actuators. The array of 'individually addressable' actuators may provide each actuator the ability to be separately addressable or addressable as a group (i.e. two or more) actuators.