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Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 01, 2018
Applicant:

Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert A. Lacroix, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrianaivo Rabemiarisoa, Lasalle, CA;

Henrique D. Da Costa, Montreal, CA;

Herve Thu Timone, Montreal, CA;

Stephen D. Rank, San Jose, CA (US);

Christopher J. Ullrich, Ventura, CA (US);

Assignee:

IMMERSION CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/04 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for synchronizing haptic effects with at least one media component in a media transport stream includes identifying a series of video frames containing imaging information and/or a series of audio frames containing sound information in the media transport stream; identifying a series of haptic frames containing force feedback information in the media transport stream; and synchronizing the force feedback information in response to the imaging information and/or sound information.


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