Patents Assigned to Tactile Displays, LLC
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Patent number: 10996762Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: TACTILE DISPLAYS, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 10990184Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: TACTILE DISPLAYS, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 10990183Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: TACTILE DISPLAYS, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 10719131Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: TACTILE DISPLAYS, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 10459523Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Tactile Displays, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 10216279Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Tactile Display, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 9513705Abstract: An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: TACTILE DISPLAYS, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 9128611Abstract: An electronic device including an interactive display having a first mode and a second mode. The interactive display includes an image display device that displays a first user-interactive imaged keypad when the interactive display is in the first mode, and that displays a second user-interactive imaged keypad when the interactive display is in the second mode, and a substantially transparent keypad including physical keys permanently formed within the display so that the keypad provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of keys within the first and second imaged keypads.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: TACTILE DISPLAYS, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 8665228Abstract: An electronic device including an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode. The interactive display includes an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode, a substantially transparent physical keypad that provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of keys within the imaged keypad, one or more permanent magnets disposed within the physical keypad, and one or more charged electrical circuit elements oriented so that movement of the one or more permanent magnets relative to the one or more charged electrical circuit elements results in generation of electricity.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Tactile Displays, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 8217908Abstract: An electronic device including an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode. The interactive display comprises an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at last a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode, and a substantially transparent physical keypad that provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of keys within the imaged keypad.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Tactile Displays, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray
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Patent number: 8115745Abstract: An electronic device including an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode. The interactive display includes an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode, and a substantially transparent physical keypad that provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of one or more imaged keys within the imaged keypad in response to one or more actuators disposed below the image display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Tactile Displays, LLCInventor: R. O'Neal Gray