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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2018
Applicant:
Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vincent Levesque, Montreal, CA;
Ali Modarres, Montreal, CA;
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Montreal, CA;
Jamal Saboune, Montreal, CA;
Assignee:
Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G08B 6/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/432 (2011.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 6/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); H04N 21/4325 (2013.01); H04N 21/4348 (2013.01); H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); H04N 21/4884 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for providing haptic effects based on information complementary to multimedia content. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of receiving multimedia data comprising multimedia content and complementary data, wherein the complementary data describes the multimedia content, determining a haptic effect based at least in part on the complementary data, and outputting the haptic effect while playing the multimedia content.