US 12,481,403 B2
Continuous tactile feedback for electronic devices
Francois Robert Hogan, St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu (CA); Trevor Ablett, Toronto (CA); Xue Liu, Montreal (CA); Gregory Lewis Dudek, Westmount (CA); and Amal Feriani, Winnipeg (CA)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/529,852.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/461,162, filed on Apr. 21, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0353958 A1, Oct. 24, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/03 (2006.01); G06T 3/02 (2024.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01)
CPC G06F 3/0425 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0325 (2013.01); G06T 3/02 (2024.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30208 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:
storing an original configuration of a set of markers in a memory of the electronic device;
obtaining an image of the set of markers;
based on the image, detecting an arrangement of the set of markers;
based on the arrangement of the set of markers, performing a measurement about a deformation of the set of markers, wherein the arrangement of the set of markers is made by a user's touch movement on the set of markers and the deformation of the set of markers corresponds to sub-images of the set of markers;
based on the measurement about the deformation of the set of markers, generating a plurality of signals by encoding the sub-images of the set of markers using a vision transformer, wherein the plurality of signals correspond to the arrangement of the set of markers and the plurality of signals comprise a first coordinate (X) displacement, a second coordinate (Y) displacement, and an angle (Θ) displacement; and
transforming the plurality of signals to a plurality of input commands,
wherein the plurality of input commands are used to control the electronic device,
wherein the performing the measurement about the deformation of the set of markers comprises:
based on comparing the original configuration of the set of markers with the image representing the deformation of the set of markers, generating a comparison result, and
calculating the measurement about the deformation of the set of markers based on the comparison result between the original configuration of the set of markers and the image representing the deformation of the set of markers, and
wherein the electronic device is an audio device.