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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
May. 21, 1997
Thomas M Peurach, Novi, MI (US);
Douglas Haanpaa, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Todd Yocum, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Charles J Jacobus, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Cybernet Systems Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of browsing geometrical databases through touch or haptic feedback is disclosed which presents a tactile virtual reality to a user, facilitating the simultaneous browsing, or viewing, touching, attaching to, or manipulation of object descriptions contained within files both visually and haptically. The files may be local to a computer system or located across a network on one or more computer systems. In a preferred embodiment, the invention preferably renders haptic features using a layered architecture to support multiple axes per device, multiple devices per servo layer, multiple servo layers per communications layer, and multiple applications accessing common or different force-feedback devices.