公开(公告)号：US11167213B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-09

申请号：US16520201

申请日：2019-07-23

Applicant: Valve Corporation

Inventor： Jeffrey Walter Mucha ,  Jeffrey George Leinbaugh ,  Eric James Hope ,  Philip Bryan ,  Scott Richard Britt ,  Scott Nietfeld ,  Claire Michelle Gottschalk ,  Jeremy Slocum

IPC: A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/428 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A63F9/24

Abstract: A controller for an electronic system includes a controller body having a handle portion, a tracking arc that is fixed to the controller body, and a hand retainer configured to physically bias a user's palm against an outside surface of the handle portion. A plurality of tracking sensors is disposed in the tracking arc, and are responsive to electromagnetic radiation emitted by the electronic system. An array of proximity sensors are spatially distributed around the outer surface of the handle portion, and are responsive to a proximity of the user's fingers to the outside surface of the handle portion.

公开(公告)号：USD908798S1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-26

申请号：US29648235

申请日：2018-05-18

Applicant: Valve Corporation

Designer： Carl Samuel Conlee, IV ,  Philip Bryan ,  Claire Gottschalk ,  Jeremy Slocum

公开(公告)号：US20180361234A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US16010385

申请日：2018-06-15

Applicant: VALVE CORPORATION

Inventor： Scott Nietfeld ,  Jeffrey George Leinbaugh ,  Eric James Hope ,  Philip Bryan ,  Scott Richard Britt ,  Jeffrey Walter Mucha ,  Claire Michelle Gottschalk ,  Jeremy Slocum

IPC: A63F13/245 ,  A63F13/21 ,  A63F13/42

Abstract: A controller includes a body having a handle, and an array of proximity sensors spatially distributed on, in, beneath, or near the outer surface of the handle, responsive to a proximity of a user's fingers to that outer surface. A finger tracker converts the output of the array of proximity sensors to a set of joint angles corresponding to a plurality of the user's fingers. The controller may include a renderer for processing the joint angles to deform a hand mesh that is rendered for display. Values may be calculated to facilitate normalization of the output of the proximity sensor array and thereby generate a set of normalized finger detection data. This data may be processed through curl logic to produce a linear estimate of gross finger curl with respect to the user and thereby generate a set of estimates for a plurality of finger joint angles for the user.