公开(公告)号：US20250061787A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-20

申请号：US18450262

申请日：2023-08-15

Applicant: Valve Corporation

Inventor： Lucas Allen Whipple ,  Richard Karstens

IPC: G08B6/00

Abstract: Described herein is a broadband haptic system for a controller of a controller system to provide enhanced haptic functionality. A control, such as a trackpad, of the controller may include a cover, a circuit board disposed behind the cover and coupled to the cover, a haptic actuator mounted to the circuit board, and a spring disposed behind the cover, the spring being coupled to the cover and mounted to a housing of the controller. The haptic actuator is configured to vibrate and the spring is configured to deflect bidirectionally in response to a vibration of the haptic actuator. Furthermore, the haptic actuator has a first resonant frequency, and the control has a second resonant frequency different than the first resonant frequency to provide a broadband haptic system for the controller.

公开(公告)号：US20250041555A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-06

申请号：US18909535

申请日：2024-10-08

Applicant: Eight Sleep Inc.

Inventor： Matteo FRANCESCHETTI ,  Massimo ANDREASI BASSI

IPC: A61M21/00 ,  A47C21/00 ,  A47C21/04 ,  A47C31/12 ,  A47G9/02 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/0205 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/08 ,  A61B5/11 ,  A61B5/117 ,  A61M16/16 ,  A61M21/02 ,  G05B19/042 ,  G05D23/13 ,  G08B6/00 ,  G16H40/67 ,  H05B1/02

Abstract: Introduced are methods and systems for an adjustable bed device configured to: gather biological signals associated with multiple users, such as heart rate, breathing rate, or temperature; analyze the gathered human biological signals; and heat or cool a bed based on the analysis.

公开(公告)号：US12218615B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US17886197

申请日：2022-08-11

Applicant: Google LLC

Inventor： Artem Dementyev ,  Dimitri Kanevsky

IPC: H02P29/60 ,  G08B6/00

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electric motor, driver circuitry to drive the electric motor, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the electric motor, and one or more processors. The one or more processors control the driver circuitry to drive the electric motor according to a predetermined voltage signal to cause the electric motor to stall and generate heat, receive information about the temperature of the electric motor detected by the temperature sensor while the electric motor is stalled, and maintain a temperature of the electric motor below a threshold temperature value while the electric motor is stalled based on the information about the temperature of the electric motor detected by the temperature sensor while the electric motor is stalled.

公开(公告)号：US20250024212A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-16

申请号：US18747040

申请日：2024-06-18

Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

Inventor： Dustin Degen

IPC: H04R25/00 ,  G08B3/10 ,  G08B5/38 ,  G08B6/00 ,  G08B7/06 ,  G08B17/117

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to hearing assistance devices that can control other devices based on hearing assistance device events and/or status. In an embodiment, a hearing assistance system includes a hearing assistance device that can include a control circuit, a microphone in electrical communication with the control circuit, an electroacoustic transducer for generating sound in electrical communication with the control circuit, and a power supply circuit. The hearing assistance device can be configured to initiate sending a hearing accommodative command to a separate controllable device upon occurrence of a hearing assistance device event. The hearing assistance device event can be raised by detection of at least one of the hearing assistance device not being worn by the subject, the hearing assistance device in a not-in-use operating state, the hearing assistance device entering a recharging mode, and the hearing assistance device entering a shut-down sequence. Other embodiments are also included herein.

公开(公告)号：US20250000451A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18759465

申请日：2024-06-28

Applicant: Tadas Kunickas

Inventor： Tadas Kunickas

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/11 ,  G08B6/00 ,  H04M1/72409 ,  H04M1/72451

Abstract: A system and method is provided including a wearable alarm system that senses a user's movement during sleep in order to determine the user's sleep state and then awakens the user when the user is experiencing light sleep in order to improve the user's sleep experience. The alarm system receives a latest wakeup time, a user movement threshold trigger, and a begin-analysis time offset and divides the time represented by the begin-analysis time offset into a plurality of intervals. The alarm system uses a wearable accelerometer that compares the user's movement to the predetermined user movement threshold and to determine when a minimum number of threshold movements have been detected in two subsequent time intervals to initiate a haptic and visible alarm to awaken the user.

公开(公告)号：US12164692B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-10

申请号：US18334519

申请日：2023-06-14

Applicant: Niki Mani ,  Alex Hamid Mani ,  Ahmadreza Rofougaran

Inventor： Niki Mani ,  Alex Hamid Mani ,  Ahmadreza Rofougaran

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G08B6/00

Abstract: An assistive device and method for non-visually discerning a three dimensional (3D) real-world area surrounding a user, includes a haptic feedback interface. The assistive device receives input to establish a mapping of a plurality of objects within a proximity range to at least one haptic element of the plurality of haptic elements in a defined region of the haptic feedback interface. Further, the assistive device merges two or more nearby relevant objects in the plurality of objects as one object so as to map the one relevant object to a corresponding haptic element of the set of haptic elements in the touch-discernible feedback. Furthermore, the assistive device adjusts sizes of the plurality of objects to map the plurality of objects with a set of haptic elements of the plurality of haptic elements while merging the two or more nearby relevant objects.

公开(公告)号：US12159528B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US18080900

申请日：2022-12-14

Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.

Inventor： Marco A. Janko ,  Filippo Rossi ,  Hamid Sepehr ,  Kyle Wilkinson ,  Emmanuel A. Marchais ,  Vadim Konradi ,  Anil Lal ,  Aleksey S. Khenkin ,  Chin Huang Yong

IPC: G08B6/00

Abstract: A method for determining and mitigating over-excursion of an internal mass of an electromechanical transducer may include measuring a sensed signal associated with the electromechanical transducer in response to a driving signal driven to the electromechanical transducer, determining a non-linearity value based on the sensed signal, mapping the non-linearity value to a probability of over-excursion of the internal mass, and applying a gain to a signal path configured to generate the driving signal based on the probability.

公开(公告)号：US12156536B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US18310410

申请日：2023-05-01

Applicant: PAX Labs, Inc.

Inventor： Joshua Fu ,  Christopher Loental ,  Marko Markovic ,  Alexander Weiss ,  Alexander Ringrose ,  David Carlberg ,  Robyn Nariyoshi ,  Devin Spratt ,  Nicholas J. Hatton ,  Yen Jen Chang ,  Chen Yu Li ,  Barry Tseng ,  Prince Wang ,  Thomas Germann ,  Andreas Schaefer

IPC: A61M11/04 ,  A24D1/14 ,  A24F7/00 ,  A24F40/40 ,  A61M15/00 ,  G01N35/00 ,  G08B6/00 ,  H01R13/52 ,  H02J7/00 ,  H05B1/02 ,  H05B3/00 ,  H05K1/14 ,  H05K1/18 ,  A24F15/015 ,  A24F40/10 ,  F16J15/02 ,  F17C9/02 ,  G01L13/00 ,  G01P15/00 ,  H01Q1/22

Abstract: A vaporizer device may include a controller and a heater control circuitry. The controller may generate, based at least on a temperature of a heating coil in a cartridge coupled with the vaporizer device, an output signal for controlling a discharge of a battery of the vaporizer device. The battery may be discharged to the heating coil to increase the temperature of the heating coil and cause a vaporization of a vaporizable material contained in the cartridge. The heater control circuitry may determine the temperature of the heating coil. The heater control circuitry may further control, based on the output signal from the controller, the discharge of the battery to the heating coil. The heater control circuitry may be powered by a voltage rail coupled to a voltage regulator configured to regulate an output voltage of the battery.

公开(公告)号：US12154451B1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-26

申请号：US18201120

申请日：2023-05-23

Applicant: Haley Brathwaite

Inventor： Haley Brathwaite ,  Amaranath Somalapuram ,  Krishnaraj Bhat ,  Ramanathan Venkataraman ,  Prakash Murthy

IPC: G09B21/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G08B6/00 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W4/80

Abstract: A navigation system includes an intelligent guidance module for identifying, using machine learning, one or more frequently travelled paths, by a user of the navigation system; and detecting one or more objects on the one or more frequently travelled paths. The navigation system further includes a generation module for generating auditory-haptic information to navigate the user through one of the one or more frequently travelled paths, based at least on the detected one or more objects.

公开(公告)号：US12142013B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17765224

申请日：2020-09-28

Applicant: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings

Inventor： Fabien Danieau ,  Julien Fleureau ,  Gaetan Moisson-Franckhauser ,  Philippe Guillotel

IPC: H04N7/12 ,  G06T9/00 ,  G08B6/00 ,  H04N19/20 ,  H04N19/70

Abstract: Methods and devices for encoding and decoding a data stream representative of a 3D volumetric scene comprising haptic features associated with objects of the 3D scene are disclosed. At the encoding, haptic features are associated with objects of the scene, for instance as haptic maps. Haptic components are stored in points of the 3D scene as color may be. These components are projected onto patch pictures which are packed in atlas images. At the decoding, haptic components are un-projected onto reconstructed points as color may be according to the depth component of pixels of the decoded atlases.