Electronic device with a pressure sensitive multi-touch display

• US 9,547,368 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2016
• Issued: 01/17/2017
• 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:
  US15/239,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20160357259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 153 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 or pressure from a detected touch and a detected indentation of a clear layer. A detailed view related to the view may also be provided on the multi-touch display based on a detected further indentation.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a multi-touch display, of the electronic device, configured to display an image, wherein a substantially clear layer is proximate to the multi-touch display;

a processor configured to display, on the multi-touch display, an information view based on pressure from a detected touch on the displayed image and a detected indentation of the substantially clear layer, wherein the pressure is detected by one or more sensors of the electronic device; and

the processor configured to cause display of a detailed view of the information view based on a detected further indentation of the substantially clear layer.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 further comprising:

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

3. The electronic device of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured to raise, by the electronic device, the substantially clear layer to a height substantially above the multi-touch display.

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

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

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

displaying, by a multi-touch display of the electronic device, an image, wherein a substantially clear layer is proximate to the multi-touch display;

displaying, on the multi-touch display, an information view based on pressure from a detected touch on the displayed image and a detected indentation of the substantially clear layer, wherein the pressure is detected by one or more sensors of the electronic device; and

displaying a detailed view of the information view based on a detected further indentation of the substantially clear layer.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

providing, by the 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 electronic device, the substantially clear layer 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 indentation or the detected further indentation.

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

11. An electronic device comprising:

a multi-touch display, of the electronic device, configured to display information, wherein a substantially clear layer is proximate to the multi-touch display;

a processor configured to display, on the multi-touch display, an information view based on pressure from multiple detected touches on the displayed information and a detected indentation of the substantially clear layer, wherein the pressure is detected by one or more sensors of the electronic device; and

the processor configured to cause display of a detailed view of the information view based on a detected further indentation of the substantially clear layer.

12. The electronic device of claim 11 further comprising:

circuitry configured to raise, by the electronic device, the substantially clear layer to a height substantially above the multi-touch display.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein a vibration or a texture pattern is provided in association with the detected indentation or the detected further indentation.

14. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying, by a multi-touch display of the electronic device, information, wherein a substantially clear layer is proximate to the multi-touch display;

displaying, on the multi-touch display, an information view based on pressure from multiple detected touches on the displayed information and a detected indentation of the substantially clear layer, wherein the pressure is detected by one or more sensors of the electronic device; and

displaying a detailed view of the information view based on a detected further indentation of the substantially clear layer.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

raising, by the electronic device, the substantially clear layer to a height substantially above the multi-touch display.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein a vibration or a texture pattern is provided in association with the detected indentation or the detected further indentation.