New IMMR Patent - Increasing force transmissibility for tactile feedback interface devices

Check out the images on this patent!

http://appft1.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=PG01&s1=20070195059&OS=20070195059&RS=20070195059

Motorola RAZR-2 In Stores In 2-Weeks! - IMMR Inside?

Motorola RAZR-2 In Stores In 2-Weeks! - IMMR Inside?

"Consumers will also receive touch feedback on the external screen through "haptic" key technology."
http://www.motorola.com/2/

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQF05110082007-1.htm

Reference to my two other posts regarding this topic:
http://immr.blogspot.com/2007/07/motorola-working-with-immr.html
http://immr.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-about-motorola-and-immr.html

Goldman Sachs Files 13-G - Owns 14.1% of IMMR, 3,096,293 Shares

Goldman Sachs Files 13-G - Owns 14.1% of IMMR, 3,096,293 Shares
http://immr.client.shareholder.com/EdgarDetail.cfm?CompanyID=IMMR&CIK=1058811&FID=769993-07-885&SID=07-00

DaimlerChrysler Working With IMMR

Patent# 20070182718 - Operator control device

I was unable to locate the Assignee Name on the patent but a quick cross reference of the inventors listed on the patent found that they work for DaimlerChrysler in Germany.

The patent uses language referring to "haptic feedback" and goes into some detail about "haptic information which is based on vibrations". The images attached to the patent application are VERY interesting. Ironically they look a lot like an iPhone.

Now, I can’t say for certain that DaimlerChrysler is working with IMMR but when a company files a patent containing this type of language and competitors (Volkswagen, BMW, etc) are already working with IMMR it becomes very interesting.

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20070182718&OS=20070182718&RS=20070182718

Forecast for Phenomenal Growth

IMMR Gets Paid BIG by Nokia No Matter What!
Paraphrased from the conference call: "If Nokia launches only a few phones the license agreement will be very expensive. However, if they launch hundreds of millions of phones it will be reasonable"

Extremely Confidant in What IMMR Foresees in Q3 and Q4 of This Year
From Conference Call: "...Extremely confidant in what we will see in Q3 and Q4 of this year..."

IMMR Confidant in Significantly Improving Share Holder Value
From Conference Call: "...Confidant that we can significantly improve share holder value..."

Additional Major Mentions with Phenomenal Growth Expected
3M, Sony, International Sales, Medical, etc.

Listen to the conference call…
http://immr.client.shareholder.com/medialist.cfm

Exceptional 2nd Quarter

IMMR Reports diluted earnings per share of $0.01 for Q2 compared to $(0.10) loss per share for the second quarter of 2006.
http://immr.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=258250

More Evidence of Sony IMMR Support Coming Very Soon!

More evidence of Sony Rumble coming VERY soon as another VERY popular game will be released with rumble and force feedback support for the PS3. Specific reference is made to Logitech who licenses IMMR technology in their products.

http://lifeparticles.com/2007/get-dirt-on-your-ps3-this-september/

Sony Rumble Confirmed !

"We can confirm that prototypes of the new rumble-enabled controllers have made their way to various Sony developers. Information on these controllers is still closely held by Sony and their partners, but an official announcement and unveiling is expected in the next two to three months. Leipzig (August 20-22) is the most obvious guess for this unveiling, but we believe Sony is going to withhold the controllers until they can launch them to coincide with support from enough developers."

http://innerbits.com/

Sony Patent Haptic Feedback...Controller

"...a haptic feed back module coupled to the control interface module and configured to provide haptic feedback to the control module..."

"...The control interface module 230 can also receive communications or controls from the portable processing unit 10. For example, the control interface module 230 can receive haptic feedback information from the portable processing unit 10 during execution of an application. The control interface module 230 can process the haptic feedback information and communicate it to the haptic feedback module 240 where the haptic feedback can be coupled to the control module 220 or one or more external devices, via the accessory ports 250..."

http://appft1.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=PG01&s1=20070174531&OS=20070174531&RS=20070174531

IMMR in Volkswagens

Immersion and Siemens VDO Partner on Automotive Haptic Technology
http://immr.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=111537

Well, it looks like this partnership is finally coming to fruition in the form of another potentially EXPLOSIVE revenue stream for IMMR. Looks like it’s going to start with Volkswagen and BMW (BMW link to follow in next post)!

“…it can warn the driver through a warning sound, by displaying a message on a head-up display or by haptic warning signals such as shaking the gas pedal or the steering wheel.”

“The research complements Volkswagen's catalog of camera-based driving functions presented recently during a congress on automotive electronics”

“…expects, however, the next vehicle generation to be equipped with the system.”

http://www.eetimes.eu/germany/201200404?cid=RSSfeed_eetimesEU_germany

God of War 3 to Have Rumble, Run at 1080p (ON PS3)

"Did Barlog just confirm that God of War 3 will be in 1080p with Sixaxis and VIBRATION functions on PS3? He sure did!..."

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157967

San Jose Mercury News Recomends iPhone Add IMMR

"The iPhone has just launched, but we can assume that Apple already is working on the next version of it. That's appropriate. The iPhone is a wonderful phone-music player hybrid but it's a product Apple should churn, not leave in the market unchanged. I'm no designer. But here are a few suggestions for what the next version of the hot Apple cell phone should include:"

"3. Force feedback technology. As I said before, iPhone users would have a much better time dialing and texting if they could only get some force feedback from the keypad. I know that Immersion, the force-feedback technology licensor based in San Jose, is a long jaunt from Cupertino. But I'll spring for the cab ride for Steve Jobs."

Item number three in this article specifically mentions Immersion. However, reading the whole article it's easy to imagine Immersions technology incorporated into other areas of suggested improvement for the iPhone.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_6443383

IMMR as Top Investment Idea

Best of the Best: Today's Top Investment Ideas. Toby Smith, editor of Changewave Investing and a regular on Fox News Bulls and Bears is quoted in this article speaking about IMMR
http://www.thestockadvisors.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1254&Itemid=33

New IMMR Patent

IMMR received a patent from the US Patent Office that sounds a LOT like the Sony patent mentioned on June 28, 2007. Interesting, isn't it?

Patent# 7,245,202
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=haptic&OS=haptic&RS=haptic

More About Motorola and IMMR

The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming that such an announcement is immanent.

Vic mentioned in this quarter’s conference call that he expects AT LEAST one more major cell phone manufacturer to sign on with IMMR before the end of the year.
http://immr.client.shareholder.com/medialist.cfm

Review of new RAZR 2 line confirms haptic feedback from phones scheduled to launch THIS SUMMER!
http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/moto_razr2/index.php?p=2

Mr. Jack Saltich, Director of IMMR has held a number of engineering and operations management posts during a 17-year career at Motorola, culminating in his position as vice president and director of the company’s Advanced Product Research and Development Laboratory.
http://www.immersion.com/corporate/team.php#bod_jsaltich

Kind of ironic how all this is beginning to fit together, isn’t it?

I wonder when, or even if, we will get an IMMR press release on this. I’ve worked with companies in the past that due to confidentiality clauses in their contract were unable to publicly disclose a deal such as this. Time will tell. Either way, it’s going to be a monster revenue booster for IMMR in Q3 and beyond!

Motorola Working With IMMR

Here is a link to an independant review of the new Motorola RAZR-2 line of phones scheduled to be released THIS SUMMER. They include haptic feedback! I've included some quotes from the article below...
http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/moto_razr2/index.php?p=2

"The buttons let you interact with whatever function of the phone you may be using, and provide micro-vibration feedback (haptics) whenever pressed. The haptics worked well and we had no trouble determining when we had pressed any of the buttons."

"All three major versions of the RAZR 2 will launch at least somewhere in the world by the end of August, and are planned for release in the US by "the end of summer."

Sony Confirms PS3 Rumble Controller

"A Sony representative confirmed on Thursday that controller rumble will make its way to the PS3 for the first time, this after several lawsuits surrounding the technology."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134511-pg,1/article.html

PS3 Getting Rumble in September?

"...a third party is delivering one this September..."

Seems likely Sony would release one too.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161177

Is Motorola the Next Next Big Deal for IMMR?

Motorola files patent with the European Patent Office that include "tactile input". Could this be foreshadowing a deal with IMMR?

ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AUDIO AND HAPTIC
Patent# WO2007078967 CAPABILITYhttp://v3.espacenet.com/textdes?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2007078967&F=0&QPN=WO2007078967

IMMR on Bloomberg BootCamp Radio Hinting at More Deals

Immersion on Bloomberg BootCamp Radio - This one is VERY interesting! If you pay very close attention to the interview the Vice President makes reference to additional Immersion deals "this year" with BIG cell phone manufacturers such as Motorola, Nokia, and Sony Ericcson !!!

This is the link to the Bloomberg BootCamp webpage on Immersion:
http://www.bootcamp.com/report.jsp?reportId=2321

This is a direct link to the MP3 interview that is linked on that page just in case you have difficulty playing it from their site, as I did.
http://www.bootcamp.com:80/audio/reports/2007_07/07_10_07.mp3

New AAPL Mouse to use IMMR

New AAPL Mouse to use IMMR

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28apple.AS.+AND+haptic%29&OS=AN/apple+AND+haptic&RS=(AN/apple+AND+haptic

VibeTonz-Enabled Games and Ringtones

Get VibeTonz-enabled games and ringtones for your phone
http://www.vibetonz.com

iPhone 2.0 to Use IMMR?

"Craig-Hallum thinks AAPL has IMMR's software development kits, "knows the technology well" and "feasibility of putting it into an iPhone or a next generation iPod on relatively short notice is not far fetched."

http://www.streetinsider.com/Basic+Content/MARKET+TALK:+Cloud+Over+Beazer+Going+Nowhere+Fast/2571945.html

New IMMR Licensing Deal with Sony?

Sony files patent with the European Patent Office that include tactile feedback. Could this be foreshadowing a deal with IMMR?

MOBILE APPARATUS HAVING TACTILE FEEDBACK FUNCTION
Patent# US2007146316
This first patent is particularly interesting in that it combines feedback from the screen and a stylus. How cool is that? Feedback not only from the screen but also the stylus!
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2007146316&F=0

IMMR in BMW 5-Series

Immersion and Siemens VDO Partner on Automotive Haptic Technology
http://immr.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=111537

Well, it looks like this partnership is finally coming to fruition in the form of another potentially EXPLOSIVE revenue stream for IMMR. Looks like it’s going to start with Volkswagen and BMW !

"By using tactile warnings, BMW's new lane departure warning system creates an intelligent rumble strip imitation that provides drivers with an advanced lane departure warning even when there are no physical strips on the shoulder of the road,”

“The BMW LDW vision system warns of potential lane departure by providing haptic warnings through simulated “rumble strip” vibration in the steering wheel.”

“The new feature can be ordered as an option in the new BMW 5 Series.”

http://www.siemensvdo.com/press/releases/chassisandcarbody/2007/SV-200703-001-en.htm