Nortia Research: Alert: IMMR mentioned BY NAME in a WMS patent app.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Alert: IMMR mentioned BY NAME in a WMS patent app.

from the IV MB, by cellodude - filed on April 26, 2007:

>>Alert: IMMR mentioned BY NAME in a WMS patent app.

"Wagering Game with Multi-Point Gesture Sensing Device," a patent app. published on July 30th for big-time slot maker WMS Gaming.

[[0060]The gaming machine 10 [large floor model], 110 [portable handheld] may optionally include a haptic device 310. Examples of suitable haptic devices include a haptic touchscreen manufactured by Immersion Corporation of San Jose, Calif., under the trade designation TouchSense.RTM. [Registered Trademark], a linear or rotary voice-coil actuator, or one or more piezoelectric elements. The haptic device 310 produces vibrations that are perceived by the tactile sense of the player. These vibrations can be synchronized with the multipoint gesture to provide tactile feedback to the player. The tactile feedback creates a more realistic interactive gaming environment and can also provide assurance to the player that the multipoint gesture is being sensed properly...

[0065]The touchscreen 500 is overlaid a transparent glass or plastic substrate 524, which together are overlaid the display 14, 16 and the optional haptic touchscreen 310, which includes actuating devices 526 (such as one near each corner of the haptic touchscreen 310) that are actuated according to a vibration profile in order to create a haptic effect...

[0080]... Vibrational feedback can be supplied by the haptic device 310, such as by increasing the frequency of vibrations as the slingshot 1000 is stretched to simulate the increasingly taut forces applied to the slingshot band...

[0081]... Further, any of the gesture aspects of the present invention may also be synchronized with a corresponding haptic feedback from the haptic device 310...

[0085]... The haptic device 310 may simulate a scratching vibration to provide haptic feedback to the player as the player is making a scratching gesture on the virtual card.]