M Iodice, BJO Long, R Jibry - US Patent 11,360,546, 2022 - Google Patents
Described herein are techniques for tracking objects (including human body parts such as a hand), namely: 1) two-state transducer interpolation in acoustic phased-arrays; 2) …
BJO Long, TA Carter, S Subramanian - US Patent 9,958,943, 2018 - Google Patents
The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for the modulation of an acoustic field for providing tactile sensations. A method of creating haptic feedback using ultrasound …
BJO Long, M Iodice, TA Carter - US Patent 11,189,140, 2021 - Google Patents
Described is a system for producing an acoustic field from a plurality of ultrasonic transducer arrays, each of which has known relative positions and orientations. The acoustic field …
TA Carter, BJO Long, RC Blenkinsopp - US Patent 10,818,162, 2020 - Google Patents
A system providing various improved calibration techniques for haptic feedback is described. An acoustic field is defined by one or more control points in a space within which …
B Kappus, W Wren - US Patent App. 16/144,474, 2019 - Google Patents
Producing multiple independent fields from many phased acoustic transducers represents a difficult computational problem. By first dividing up each field to its own group of transducers …
TA Carter, BJO Long, S Subramanian - US Patent 10,755,538, 2020 - Google Patents
The properties of metamaterials are derived both from the inherent properties of their constituent materials and from the geometrical arrangement of those materials …
B Kappus, BJO Long - US Patent 11,098,951, 2021 - Google Patents
A phased array of ultrasonic transducers may create arbitrary fields that can be utilized to manipulate fluids. This includes the translation of drops on smooth surfaces as well …
JR Buckland, AJR Jackson, AD Araya-Williams… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
An acoustic matching structure is used to increase the power radiated from a transducing element with a higher imped ance into a surrounding acoustic medium with a lower acoustic …
BJO Long - US Patent 10,943,578, 2021 - Google Patents
Various techniques for driving phased array systems are described, specifically intended for acoustic phased arrays with applications to mid-air haptics, parametric audio, acoustic …