Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Force sensing based on structure-borne sound propagation
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Application No.: US15414683Application Date: 2017-01-25
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Publication No.: US10171638B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Kang G. Shin , Yu-Chih Tung
- Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
- Applicant Address: US MI Ann Arbor
- Assignee: The Regents of The University of Michigan
- Current Assignee: The Regents of The University of Michigan
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Ann Arbor
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04M1/02
- IPC: H04M1/02 ; G06F3/16 ; G06F1/16 ; G06F3/041

Abstract:
ForcePhone is a novel system for enabling phones to recognize the force applied to their touchscreen and/or body. ForcePhone uses built-in sensors to measure the applied force via a physical property called structure-borne sound propagation. The phone plays an inaudible sound through the phone's speaker. When the phone is free to vibrate, the sound from the speaker easily travels through its body to the phone's microphone. When a force is applied to the phone, vibration is restricted and the sound traveling through the pathway is degraded. ForcePhone estimate the amount of applied force by monitoring the change in sound degradation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170220171A1 Force Sensing Based On Structure-Borne Sound Propagation Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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