Patents Research

#	Patent number	Applicant/Inventor	Title	Essence
1	US 20150123775 A1	Kerdemelidis; Andrew	Haptic notification apparatus and method	An apparatus and method the allows the use to feel vibration under their fingers when feeling the screen
2	US 20140266648 A1	Senseg Ltd.	Tactile stimulation apparatus having a composite section comprising a semiconducting material	An apparatus consisting of an insulating layer and a semiconductive layer that touch each other and provide tactile feedback.
3	US 20130045761 A1	Grant; Danny A Ramsay; Erin B Gregorio; Pedro Fleming; Jason D Flaherty; Natasha M	Haptically enabled messaging	Having a haptic feedback command in text messages and sending text messages
4	US 20110254799 A1	Makinen; Ville Suvanto; Petro Linjama; Jukka	Method and apparatus for sensory stimulation	Haptic feedback, the electrovibration
5	US 20120286944 A1	Forutanpour; Babak, Bednar; David	Devices and methods for presenting information to a user on a tactile output surface of a mobile device	Mobile devices using tactile feedback to help the user see what appears on the screen without actually seeing.
6	US 20110074733 A1	Makinen; Ville Suvanto; Petro Linjama; Jukka	Interface apparatus for touch input and tactile output communication	When touching the device your finger will be the point and therefore you will feel electrovibration.
7	US 20140071071 A1	Hirose; Yoshifumi, Araki; Shoichi, Nagahara; Hidetomo	Haptic feedback device and haptic feedback method	a device that has the ability to use haptic feedback
8	US 20130106758 A1	Radivojevic; Zoran, Beecher; Paul, Bower; Chris, Andrew; Piers, Cotton; Darryl, Haque; Samiul	Apparatus and associated methods	the first sensors relationship with the other sensors and the finger picking up on that wave.
9	US 20140049505 A1	Radivojevic; Zoran, Beecher; Paul, Bower; Chris, Andrew; Piers, Cotton; Darryl, Haque; Samiul, Astley; Michael, Ahonen; Markus	Apparatus and associated methods	electrodes are used as haptic feedback in part of the system, the direction and feel of the vibration.
10	US 20140292719 A1	Colgate; James Edward, Peshkin; Michael A.	Haptic device with controlled traction forces	the friction one feels when using haptic feedback

Tactile stimulation apparatus having a composite section comprising a semiconducting material

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=4&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=senseg&OS=senseg&RS=senseg → Senseg’s apparatus - device - patent. It gives Senseg Ltd. the rights over a haptic feedback-giving device comprising of a semiconducting material. It is the soul of our project, but at the moment we are more interesting in finding software that were patented instead of the device since we are not modifying the device itself.

Haptic notification apparatus and method

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=senseg&OS=senseg&RS=senseg

Progress Report - Week of Nov. 22

Progress: We have learned more about what was wrong with the code however unlocking new answers led to more problems with adding vibration.

Problems: A problem that we think we are running into is that Mr. Lin's code is on an older version of Android Studio and therefore there might be some trouble copying the code. Another problem is that our library doesn't have the tools we need to run the code.

Plan: Our plan this week is to keep working on trying to add feeling to the code. We plan to dissect Mr. Lin's code and change our code to match his and then had what we need for our code to the working code. We are also going to try and find out what library tools we are missing and see if that has any effect on whether the code should run.

Progress Report - week of November 15

Progress: with the help of Stack Overflow, a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers, we got our test app the way we wanted. There are no pictures because all the progress took place in the school computer. We then moved on to trying to incorporate Senseg's haptic feedback in our app, which we weren't successful on and which will be discussed in the 'problems' category.
Problem: our biggest problem we faced this past week was incorporating the haptic feedback in our application. We spent a lot of time trying to make it work on our own, which was a big mistake since we had the Senseg guidelines all along, we just didn't know we could access it. We started working on it on Thursday, but there was no real progress since we were stuck with an error regarding 'context'.
Plan: our plan for this upcoming week is to fully understand the Senseg developer and figure out how to make it work in our work.

Progress report - week of 11/08

Progress: Gabriela has made a code that draws rectangles, lines and circles. There is a rectangle button and circle button that leads to different pages. The rectangle button leads to a page filled with rectangles and the circle button leads to a page filled with circles.

Problem: An issue that we ran into was attaching the necessary images to the code so the code would run. Specifically, on Windows the images are copied into the program as 'drawable' images, but on Mac we were only able to add them as 'icon drawables'. Also, the size of everything was off so we are working on fixing the size. 

Plan: Our plan for this week is to see how to add haptic feedback to the code. As soon as we fix all the problems with size and images, we will add haptic feedback by studying Mr. Lin's code.

This is the base of our code.

Progress Report - Week of Nov. 1

Progress: While watching Derek Banas' tutorials we discovered that we didn't download all the packages we needed to make a successful app. So we downloaded all the packages and created a tablet device on our computer to run the code as if it were on a real tablet.

Problem: A major problems we are having is that the tutorials that we were watching were being taught on a Windows computers instead of a Mac computer. The code that works for Windows doesn't work for Macs. Also, the outdated android studio being used in the tutorials doesn't work with the newer version of android studio.

Plan: Our plan is to target videos for Macs and videos that are using the updated version of android studio so when learning it can be applied. We are planning to have one part of the test app completed by the end of the week.