US 12,189,851 B1
Spatially offset haptic feedback
Aakar Gupta, Redmond, WA (US); Majed Jamal Samad, Redmond, WA (US); and Hrvoje Benko, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/347,460.
Application 18/347,460 is a continuation of application No. 17/470,564, filed on Sep. 9, 2021, granted, now 11,720,175.
Application 17/470,564 is a continuation of application No. 16/847,327, filed on Apr. 13, 2020, granted, now 11,132,058, issued on Sep. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/899,596, filed on Sep. 12, 2019.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01)
CPC G06F 3/014 (2013.01) [G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G06T 2210/21 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a sensor that tracks positioning of a user's body;
a first haptic actuator that applies haptic feedback at a first location associated with a first body part;
a second haptic actuator that applies haptic feedback at a second location associated with a second body part, wherein the second body part is different from the first body part; and
a processor configured to:
determine, based on a position of the user's second body part, that a virtual interaction occurred between a representation of the second body part and a virtual object in an artificial environment; and
activate, in response to the virtual interaction, the first haptic actuator based on a mapping of the second body part to the first haptic actuator, the activation providing spatially offset haptic feedback at the first location associated with the first body part.