公开(公告)号：US10549183B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-04

申请号：US15834425

申请日：2017-12-07

Applicant: VALVE CORPORATION

Inventor： Eric James Hope ,  Scott Nietfeld ,  Carl Conlee ,  Scott Richard Britt ,  Jeffrey Walter Mucha ,  Jeffrey George Leinbaugh ,  Jeremy Slocum

IPC: A63F13/24 ,  A63F13/214

Abstract: A controller for an electronic system includes a controller body having a head and a handle, and a tracking member that is fixed to the controller body. The head includes at least one thumb-operated control, and the handle has a tubular housing that is partially wrapped by an outer shell. The controller includes a hand retainer configured to physically bias the user's palm against the outer shell. A first plurality of tracking transducers is disposed in the tracking member, the first plurality of tracking sensors being coupled with the electronic system via electromagnetic radiation. An array of proximity sensors is spatially distributed on the outer shell, the array of proximity sensors being responsive to a proximity of the user's fingers to the outer shell.

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.