Touch Input Controller with Dynamic Haptic and Visual Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
User interfaces with touch sensitive inputs and display outputs are not as intuitive or easy to use as dedicated keyboards, often lacking clear feedback on effective actuation and requiring improved methods to facilitate additional manual interactions.
Innovation Solution
A controller is used to provide and maintain outputs, such as icons or haptic feedback, at user-selected locations on touch sensitive inputs to enhance user interaction by offering visual and tactile cues for additional actuations, potentially altering the physical configuration or visual content of the interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a touch sensitive input with display output is used, then the device integrates multiple functions in one interface, but the ease of operation deteriorates compared to dedicated keyboards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies feedback by providing visual output on the display and haptic feedback through the touch sensitive input surface. When a user actuates a location on the touch surface, the system provides visual feedback on the display and maintains the output to facilitate additional manual actuation, creating a feedback loop that improves ease of operation while maintaining integrated functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by dynamically altering the physical configuration of the touch sensitive input surface through haptic feedback mechanisms. The surface can deform or change texture in response to user actuation, providing adaptive tactile cues that guide user interaction and improve operability of the integrated interface
2Ease of operation
If visual and haptic feedback are provided to facilitate additional actuation, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the visual output function and haptic feedback function into a single integrated controller system. The controller simultaneously manages the display output and the touch sensitive input surface, combining multiple functions into one coordinated system that improves ease of operation without proportionally increasing overall device complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution improves user interaction by providing clear feedback on effective actuations and facilitating additional manual inputs through dynamic visual and haptic outputs, making touch sensitive interfaces more intuitive and user-friendly.
Implementation Method 1
a touch sensitive input responsive to manual actuation
Implementation Method 2
provide and maintain, in response to a manual actuation at a user selected location of the touch sensitive input, a haptic output at the user selected location
Implementation Method 3
provide, in response to a manual actuation at a user selected location of the proximity sensitive input, deformation feedback at the user selected location that enables user perception of a deformation in the user interface
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus including: a touch sensitive input responsive to manual actuation; a display output associated with the touch sensitive input; and a controller configured to provide and maintain, in response to a manual actuation at a user selected location of the touch sensitive input, an output at the user selected location to facilitate additional manual actuation via the touch sensitive input in the region of the user selected location.