Touch sensitive display

• US 8,941,603 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2010
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Karlsson, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US13/318,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20120188179A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 345/7, 345/156, 345/173, 345/419, 345/632, 345/633, 340/407.1, 340/407.2, 382/103, 382/114, 434/113, 434/114
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

The present solution relates to a device (800) comprising a touch sensitive display (111). The device (800) further comprises a receiving unit (701) configured to receive image data. The device (800) further comprises a processing unit (703) configured to display the image data as a haptic image on the touch sensitive display (111), whereby objects comprised in the haptic image are discernable to a user by sense of touch.

Claims

1. A device comprising a touch sensitive display, the device further comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive image data from augmented reality glasses in real time, on demand or periodically; and

a processing unit configured to display the image data as a haptic image on the touch sensitive display, whereby objects comprised in the haptic image are discernable to a user by sense of touch;

wherein

the receiving unit is further configured to receive input data from the touch sensitive display, whereby the input data is associated with touched objects in the displayed haptic image; and

wherein

the processing unit is further configured to display a marker associated with the received input data on the touch sensitive display or on a second display, wherein the marker is superimposed on the haptic image.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit is configured to display the image data as a haptic image on the touch sensitive display continuously, periodically, on demand or when a user touches the touch sensitive display.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the augmented reality glasses are comprised in an image data capturing device.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the image data capturing device comprises a camera.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit is further configured to process the received image data into the haptic image.

6. The device according to claim 1, further comprising

a positioning unit configured to provide a geographical position of the touch sensitive display.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the touch sensitive display is a two or three dimensional haptic touch sensitive display rendering the haptic image in two or three dimensions.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the touch sensitive display comprises material that exhibits a change in its size or shape when stimulated by an electric field.

9. A communication device comprising the device of claim 1.

10. The communication device according to claim 9, wherein the communication device includes a mobile telephone, media player, tablet device, Personal Communications System terminal, Personal Data Assistant, laptop computer, palmtop receiver, camera, television, radar or any appliance that includes a transducer designed to transmit and/or receive radio, television, telephone and/or radar signals.

11. An augmented reality communication system comprising:

the communication device of claim 9 or claim 10; and

an image capturing device configured to capture an image and to transmit the image to the communication device in real time, on demand or periodically.

12. A method in a device, wherein the device comprises a touch sensitive display, the method comprising:

receiving image data from augmented reality glasses in real time, on demand or periodically; and

displaying the image data as a haptic image on the touch sensitive display, whereby objects comprised in the haptic image are discernable to a user by sense of touch;

receiving input data from the touch sensitive display, whereby the input data is associated with touched objects in the displayed haptic image; and

displaying a marker associated with the received input data on the touch sensitive display or on a second display, wherein the marker is superimposed on the haptic image.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the image data is displayed as a haptic image on the touch sensitive display continuously, periodically, on demand or when a user touches the touch sensitive display.