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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:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2017
Applicant:

Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventor:

Robert Lacroix, Saint-Lambert, CA;

Assignee:

IMMERSION CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 (2011.01); H04N 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/8545 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04N 21/414 (2011.01); H04N 21/43 (2011.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 21/233 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06F 3/1423 (2013.01); H04N 21/233 (2013.01); H04N 21/234 (2013.01); H04N 21/4122 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/41407 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/4307 (2013.01); H04N 21/4348 (2013.01); H04N 21/43637 (2013.01); H04N 21/4622 (2013.01); H04N 21/845 (2013.01); H04N 21/8545 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01); H04N 21/8186 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multi-device system includes at least one media server system, a primary viewing device including a display screen, and a secondary device including a haptic output device. The at least one media server system includes a source of audio-video content and haptic content and is configured to transfer the audio-video content and the haptic content. The haptic content is associated with the audio-video content. The primary viewing device is configured to output the audio-video content received from the at least one media server system. The secondary device is configured to output the haptic content received from the at least one media server system as a haptic effect via the haptic output device.


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