Microsoft patents vibration tuning to match sound pitch
This filing describes a method for adjusting the vibration of a device's motor so that the sound it makes matches a specific audio pitch. The system takes a desired sound pitch, converts it into a specific vibration frequency, and drives the motor to vibrate at that exact rate. This ensures the physical buzz aligns with the audio being played.
In the filing’s own words
A computing device with haptic tuning includes a haptic motor configured to emit a haptic vibration, memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform various functions. The computing device executes a haptics engine configured to control the haptic motor and adjust the haptic vibration to be emitted, receives haptic parameters including at least a pitch of a sound of the haptic vibration to be emitted, converts the pitch to a vibration frequency value, and controls the haptic motor to emit the haptic vibration at the vibration frequency value such that the sound of the haptic vibration is tuned to match the pitch.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computing device with haptic tuning, comprising: a haptic motor configured to emit a haptic vibration; memory storing instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: execute a haptics engine configured to control the haptic motor and adjust the haptic vibration to be emitted; receive haptic parameters including at least a pitch of a sound of the haptic vibration to be emitted; convert the pitch to a vibration frequency value; and control the haptic motor to emit the haptic vibration at the vibration frequency value such that the sound of the haptic vibration is tuned to match the pitch.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- COMPUTING DEVICE WITH HAPTIC VIBRATION TUNING
- Publication number
- US20260299692A1
- Application number
- 19096028
- Filed
- Mar 31, 2025
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/016 Physics & computingG06F 3/04847 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in Phones & computers
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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