Patent ID: 8328638
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: A63F,G06F,G09B

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for providing, in response to signals generated by a computer or video game system, tactile sensation to a user of said computer or video game system, said apparatus comprising: a hand-held game pad controller; where said hand-held game pad controller is adapted to be held by both of a user's hands simultaneously; two motors disposed within said hand-held game pad controller, for selectively generating tactile sensation as vibrations; control circuitry, coupled to said two motors, where said control circuitry is responsive to signals that are generated by said computer or video game system; where said signals correspond to action executing on said computer or video game system; where said control circuitry controls said two motors, where said two motors are controllable independently of each other; where said two independently controllable motors each has a mass attached to its shaft such that when each motor is activated, its shaft rotates, such that said two motors each generate vibrations via the rotation of each said attached mass on each said shaft; where the speed of rotation of each rotating shaft of each of said two motors is independently changeable in real time; where said vibrations generated via the rotation of each said attached mass change in real time in accordance with said independently changing speed of rotation of said rotating shafts of said two motors; where said two motors generate vibrations simultaneously, wherein the simultaneous vibrations are of independent intensities with respect to each other; where said vibrations of said simultaneous independent intensities combine in said hand-held game pad controller into a simultaneous combination of vibrations; where said simultaneous combination of vibrations is felt in both hands of the user holding the hand-held game pad controller.