Control Knob With Multiple Degrees of Freedom and Force Feedback
    55.
    发明申请
    Control Knob With Multiple Degrees of Freedom and Force Feedback 有权
    控制旋钮具有多重自由度和力反馈

    公开(公告)号:US20090079712A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-03-26

    申请号:US12326405

    申请日:2008-12-02

    IPC分类号: G09G5/00

    摘要: The present invention provides a control knob on a device that allows a user to control functions of the device. In one embodiment, the knob is rotatable in a rotary degree of freedom and moveable in at least one transverse direction approximately perpendicular to the axis. An actuator is coupled to the knob to output a force in the rotary degree of freedom about the axis, thus providing force feedback. In a different embodiment, the knob is provided with force feedback in a rotary degree of freedom about an axis and is also moveable in a linear degree of freedom approximately parallel to the axis, allowing the knob to be pushed and/or pulled by the user. The device controlled by the knob can be a variety of types of devices, such as an audio device, video device, etc. The device can also include a display providing an image updated in response to manipulation of the knob. Detent forces can be provided for the knob by overlapping and adjusting ranges of closely-spaced detents in the rotary degree of freedom of the knob.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种设备上的控制旋钮,其允许用户控制设备的功能。 在一个实施例中,旋钮可以旋转自由度旋转,并且在大致垂直于轴线的至少一个横向方向上可移动。 致动器联接到旋钮以输出围绕轴线的旋转自由度的力,从而提供力反馈。 在不同的实施例中,旋钮以关于轴线的旋转自由度提供力反馈,并且还可以在大致平行于轴线的线性自由度中移动,从而允许使用者推动和/或拉动旋钮 。 由旋钮控制的设备可以是各种类型的设备,诸如音频设备,视频设备等。设备还可以包括提供响应于旋钮的操纵而更新的图像的显示器。 可以通过在旋钮的旋转自由度中重叠和调整紧密间隔的棘爪的范围来为旋钮提供限位力。

    Method and Apparatus for Compensating for Position Slip in Interface Devices
    56.
    发明申请
    Method and Apparatus for Compensating for Position Slip in Interface Devices 有权
    用于补偿接口设备中位置滑移的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20080303789A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-12-11

    申请号:US12191983

    申请日:2008-08-14

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00

    摘要: Method and apparatus for compensating for position slip in interface devices that may occur between a manipulandum and a sensor of the device due to a mechanical transmission. A device position delta is determined from a sensed position of a manipulandum of an interface device. It is determined if position slip has occurred caused by a change in position of the manipulandum that was not sensed by a sensor of the interface device, typically caused by a mechanical transmission between sensor and manipulandum. If position slip has occurred, an error in the sensed position caused by the position slip is corrected by adjusting the sensed position to take into account the position slip. The adjusted position delta is used as the position of the manipulandum and the display of objects controlled by the interface device are accordingly compensated.

    摘要翻译: 用于补偿由于机械传动而可能发生在装置的操纵和传感器之间的界面装置中的位置滑移的方法和装置。 从接口设备的操作的感测位置确定设备位置增量。 通过由传感器和操纵之间的机械传动引起的接口装置的传感器没有感测到的操作位置的变化,确定是否发生位置滑移。 如果发生位置滑移,则通过调整感测位置来考虑位置滑移来校正由位置滑移引起的感测位置的误差。 调整后的位置增量被用作操纵的位置,相应地补偿由接口装置控制的物体的显示。

    Tactile mouse
    57.
    发明授权
    Tactile mouse 有权
    触觉老鼠

    公开(公告)号:US07136045B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-11-14

    申请号:US09798498

    申请日:2001-03-01

    IPC分类号: G09G5/08

    摘要: A low-cost tactile feedback mouse device for providing haptic feedback to a user for enhancing interactions and manipulations in a graphical environment provided by a computer. The mouse device includes a sensor device able to detect the movement of the mouse in the planar workspace. An actuator is coupled to the housing of the mouse and applies an inertial force in a particular degree of freedom, preferably along an axis perpendicular to the planar workspace, where the inertial force is transmitted through the housing to the user. The actuator outputs the inertial force preferably by linearly moving an inertial mass along the Z-axis. The output force is correlated with interaction of a controlled graphical object, such as a cursor, with other graphical objects in a graphical environment displayed by the host computer. The inertial force can be a pulse, vibration, texture force, or other type of force.

    摘要翻译: 一种低成本触觉反馈鼠标装置,用于向用户提供触觉反馈以增强由计算机提供的图形环境中的交互和操纵。 鼠标装置包括能够检测鼠标在平面工作空间中移动的传感器装置。 致动器联接到鼠标的壳体,并且以特定的自由度,优选沿垂直于平面工作空间的轴施加惯性力,其中惯性力通过壳体传递给使用者。 致动器优选地通过沿Z轴线性移动惯性质量来输出惯性力。 输出力与诸如光标的受控图形对象与主计算机显示的图形环境中的其他图形对象的交互相关。 惯性力可以是脉冲,振动,纹理力或其他类型的力。

    Directional tactile feedback for haptic feedback interface devices
    58.
    发明授权
    Directional tactile feedback for haptic feedback interface devices 有权
    触觉反馈接口设备的定向触觉反馈

    公开(公告)号:US06864877B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-03-08

    申请号:US09967496

    申请日:2001-09-27

    CPC分类号: G06F3/016 G06F2203/013

    摘要: Directional haptic feedback provided in a haptic feedback interface device. An interface device includes at least two actuator assemblies, which each include a moving inertial mass. A single control signal provided to the actuator assemblies at different magnitudes provides directional inertial sensations felt by the user. A greater magnitude waveform can be applied to one actuator to provide a sensation having a direction approximately corresponding to a position of that actuator in the housing. In another embodiment, the actuator assemblies each include a rotary inertial mass and the control signals have different duty cycles to provide directional sensations. For power-consumption efficiency, the control signals can be interlaced or pulsed at a different frequency and duty cycle to reduce average power requirements.

    摘要翻译: 在触觉反馈接口设备中提供的定向触觉反馈。 接口装置包括至少两个致动器组件,每个致动器组件包括运动的惯性质量块。 以不同的幅度提供给致动器组件的单个控制信号提供了用户感觉到的定向惯性感觉。 可以对一个致动器施加更大幅度的波形以提供具有大致对应于该致动器在壳体中的位置的方向的感觉。 在另一个实施例中,致动器组件各自包括旋转惯性质量块,并且控制信号具有不同的占空比以提供定向感觉。 对于功耗效率,控制信号可以以不同的频率和占空比进行隔行扫描或脉冲以降低平均功率需求。

    Enhanced cursor control using interface devices
    59.
    发明授权
    Enhanced cursor control using interface devices 有权
    使用接口设备增强光标控制

    公开(公告)号:US06816148B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-11-09

    申请号:US09956453

    申请日:2001-09-18

    IPC分类号: G09G508

    摘要: An interface device and method for providing enhanced cursor control with force feedback. A force feedback interface device includes a manipulandum, such as a mouse, that is moveable in a local workspace. The device is coupled to a host computer that displays a cursor in a graphical environment, such as a GUI, on a display screen. An interior region and a border region in the local workspace is defined. One mapping of device movement to cursor movement is used for the interior region, and a different mapping is used for the border region. Mapping methods include ballistics, absolute, linear, rate control, and variable absolute. Rate control embodiments can be single axis or dual axis. In one embodiment, when the mouse moves from the interior region to the border region, the mapping providing the greater cursor velocity is used to better conserve device workspace in the direction of travel and to decrease any sense of mapping mode change to the user. Other features include an autocentering function for reducing offset between local and host frames.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于通过力反馈提供增强的光标控制的接口设备和方法。 力反馈接口设备包括可在本地工作空间中移动的操纵,例如鼠标。 该设备耦合到在显示屏幕上的诸如GUI的图形环境中显示光标的主计算机。 定义本地工作空间中的内部区域和边界区域。 对于内部区域使用设备移动到光标移动的一个映射,并且边界区域使用不同的映射。 映射方法包括弹道学,绝对线性,速率控制和可变绝对。 速率控制实施例可以是单轴或双轴。 在一个实施例中,当鼠标从内部区域移动到边界区域时,提供较大光标速度的映射用于在行进方向上更好地节省设备工作空间并且减少对用户的任何映射模式改变的感觉。 其他功能包括用于减少本地和主机帧之间的偏移的自动对中功能。