Christopher B Harmon

US Patent:

20180056180, Mar 1, 2018

Filed:

Mar 3, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/449861

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Sam Michael Sarmast - Redmond WA, US
Robert Bryce Johnson - Sammamish WA, US
Jonathan Shea Robinson - Kirkland WA, US
Andre Sutanto - Kenmore WA, US
Leo Shing - Redmond WA, US
Ross Nelson - Seattle WA, US
Christopher Kujawski - Seattle WA, US
Evelyn Thomas - Bellevue WA, US
Kristine A. Hunter - Seattle WA, US
Flor Albornoz - Las Vegas NV, US
Rachel Yang - Leonia NJ, US
Christopher Harmon - Cambridge MA, US
Gregory M. Daly - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC - Redmond WA

International Classification:

A63F 13/23
A63F 13/24
A63F 13/42
A63F 13/98
A63F 13/537

Abstract:

An accessory apparatus includes a housing, an apparatus connector, a plurality of auxiliary accessory interfaces, and an internal microcontroller. The connection connector is configured to mate with a corresponding accessory connector of a physical controller to electrically connect the internal microcontroller to the physical controller. Each auxiliary accessory connector is configured to enable a separate auxiliary user input device to operatively connect to the accessory apparatus and electrically connect with the internal microcontroller. The internal microcontroller is configured to: (1) receive an input control signal from an auxiliary user input device operatively connected to an auxiliary accessory connector of the plurality of auxiliary accessory connectors, (2) map the input control signal to a mapped control signal corresponding to a physical control of the physical controller, and (3) send the mapped control signal to the physical controller via the apparatus connector.