Mobile device with a pressure and indentation sensitive multi-touch display

• US 9,448,632 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2016
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Haptic Synergy LLC (Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC)
• Original Assignee: HJ Laboratories, LLC
• Inventors: Vartanian, Harry, Jurikson-Rhodes, Jaron
• Primary Examiner(s): Haley, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): FRANK, EMILY J
• Application Number:
  US15/145,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20160246380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 140 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04809 Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3208 organic, e.g. using organic light-emitting diodes [OLED]
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 13/85 characterised by tactile feedback features
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2215/05 electromechanical
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2215/052 piezoelectric
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2217/006 : Different feeling for different switch sites
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2217/038 : Prompting
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/9643 : using a plurality of detectors, e.g. keyboard

Abstract

A view may be displayed on a multi-touch display based on force from a detected touch to a tactile point and an indentation of a clear layer. A detailed view related to the view may also be displayed on the multi-touch based on a detected further indentation of the tactile point.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device comprising:

a multi-touch display, of the mobile electronic device, configured to display an image, wherein a tactile area on a substantially clear layer proximate to the multi-touch display is associated with the image;

a processor configured to display, on the multi-touch display, an information view based on force from a detected touch to the tactile area and a detected indentation level of the substantially clear layer, wherein the force is detected by a sensor layer substantially behind the multi-touch display; and

the processor configured to display a detailed view of the information view based on a detected further indentation of the tactile area.

2. The mobile electronic device of claim 1 further comprising:

the mobile electronic device is configured to provide a programmable vibration in relation to a zoom operation of the image.

3. The mobile electronic device of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured to raise, by the mobile electronic device, the tactile area to a height substantially above the multi-touch display.

4. The mobile electronic device of claim 1, wherein a vibration or a texture pattern is provided in association with the detected further indentation.

5. The mobile electronic device of claim 1, wherein the multi-touch display is a flexible OLED display.

6. A method performed by a mobile electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying, by a multi-touch display of the mobile electronic device, an image, wherein a tactile area on a substantially clear layer proximate to the multi-touch display is associated with the image;

displaying, on the multi-touch display, an information view based on force from a detected touch to the tactile area and a detected indentation level of the substantially clear layer, wherein the force is detected by a sensor layer substantially behind the multi-touch display; and

displaying a detailed view of the information view based on a detected further indentation of the tactile area.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

providing, by the mobile electronic device, a programmable vibration in relation to a zoom operation of the image.

8. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

raising, by the mobile electronic device, the tactile area to a height substantially above the multi-touch display.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein a vibration or a texture pattern is provided in association with the detected further indentation.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the multi-touch display is a flexible OLED display.

11. A mobile electronic device comprising:

a multi-touch display, of the mobile electronic device, configured to display text, wherein a tactile point on a substantially clear layer proximate to the multi-touch display is associated with the text;

a processor configured to display, on the multi-touch display, a view based on force from a detected touch to the tactile point and a detected indentation level of the substantially clear layer, wherein the force is detected in part by a sensor layer of the mobile electronic device and the indentation is detected in part based on motion of the mobile electronic device; and

the processor configured to display a detailed view of the view based on a detected further indentation of the tactile point.