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Tactile feedback devices for configurable touchscreen interfaces

  • US 9,671,954 B1
  • Filed: 07/11/2011
  • Issued: 06/06/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing tactile feedback to a user of a touchscreen interface, the method comprising:

  • providing the touchscreen interface;

    displaying a device display in a first position on the touchscreen interface independent of any tactile feedback device such that the device display does not correspond to any tactile feedback device, the device display corresponding to an instrument displayed on the touchscreen interface;

    displaying a virtual control on the device display such that the device display comprises a first display configuration with the virtual control located at a first virtual control position on the device display;

    one ofrelocating the device display being displayed on the touchscreen interface from the first position to a second position, the second position being according to a position of a tactile feedback device positioned on a surface of the touchscreen interface at the second position while maintaining the first display configuration;

    orrelocating the virtual control being displayed within the device display from a first virtual control position to a second virtual control position according to a position of the tactile feedback device on the device display while the device display is maintained on the touchscreen interface at the first position such that the instrument comprises a second display configuration with the virtual control located at a second virtual control position on the device display,wherein the tactile feedback device comprises a tactile reference that substantially frames the virtual control and that guides user input on the tactile reference to the virtual control on the touchscreen interface.

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