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Tactile interface system for manipulation of a touch screen

  • US 9,952,762 B2
  • Filed: 08/20/2012
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An interface system for allowing cross-disability manipulation of a computer touch screen that is operably connected to an electronic computer having a software program stored thereon, comprising:

  • a bezela computer touch screen housed in the bezel;

    a tactile button assembly operatively connected to the bezel and including a panel and a tactile button having a support end operatively connected to panel, an intermediate portion extending from the panel over at least a portion of the computer touch screen and a contact end, the tactile button including tactile indicia that can be tactilely perceived by a user and being moveable between a non-actuated position wherein the contact end is spaced from and supported above the computer touch screen by the panel in a cantilevered arrangement and an actuated position wherein the contact end of the tactile button is relatively closer to the computer touch screen than when the tactile button is in the non-actuated position.

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