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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2018
Applicant:

Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eric Gervais, Montreal, CA;

Shadi Asfour, Montreal, CA;

Jamal Saboune, Montreal, CA;

Amer Alhalabi, Laval, CA;

Vincent Levesque, Montreal, CA;

Assignee:

Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 6/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 6/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system produces haptic effects. The system receives input data associated with an event, identifies an element of the event in the input data, generates the haptic effects based on the element of the event, and produces the haptic effects via a haptic output device. In one embodiment, the haptic effects are generated by haptifying the element of the event. In one embodiment, the haptic effects are designed haptic effects and are adjusted based on the element of the event. In one embodiment, the input data is associated with a crowd that attends the event, and the element of the event is caused by the crowd. In one embodiment, the input data includes haptic data collected by one or more personal devices associated with the crowd. In one embodiment, the input data is indicative of a location of the one or more personal devices associated with the crowd.


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