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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2016
Essential Products, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
David John Evans, V, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew E. Rubin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Xinrui Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaoyu Miao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph Anthony Tate, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew Hershenson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jason Sean Gagne-Keats, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Kolb, Redwood City, CA (US);
ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Introduced here are methods and systems to create a relief on an electronic display. In one embodiment, the relief is created by micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) placed above a cover layer of the electronic display. Each MEMS when activated can protrude or depress, thus creating the relief on the electronic display. In another embodiment, the relief is created by a plurality of resistors placed beneath the cover layer. The cover layer is made out of an elastically deformable material that, when heated, expands, thus creating a protrusion on the electronic display. Each resistor when activated heats a section of the cover layer, causing the cover layer to protrude.