Patents Assigned to Tactus Technologies
  • Patent number: 8243038
    Abstract: A method adjusting a user interface experience for a device that includes providing a user interface to retrieve a user input, providing a tactile interface layer that defines a surface and includes a volume of fluid and a displacement device 10 that manipulates the volume of fluid to deform a particular region of the surface into a tactilely distinguishable formation retrieving a user preference between a first type, location, and/or timing and a second embodiment, location, and/or timing through the user interface, and manipulating the volume of fluid to deform a particular region of the surface into a tactilely distinguishable formation of one of the first and second type, location, and/or timing is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Tactus Technologies
    Inventors: Craig Michael Ciesla, Micah B Yairi, Nathaniel Mark Saal
  • Patent number: 8207950
    Abstract: A user interface enhancement system that includes a sheet that defines a surface and at least partially defines a fluid vessel arranged underneath the surface, a volume of fluid contained within the fluid vessel that cooperates with the sheet to transmit an image through the sheet without substantial obstruction, a displacement device that influences the volume of fluid within the fluid vessel to expand and retract at least a portion of the fluid vessel, thereby deforming a particular region of the surface, and an attachment component that couples the sheet to the device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Tactus Technologies
    Inventors: Craig Michael Ciesla, Micah B Yairi, Nathaniel Mark Saal