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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2005
Brandon D. Itkowitz, Natick, MA (US);
Loren C. Shih, Medford, MA (US);
Marc Douglass Midura, Somerville, MA (US);
Joshua E. Handley, Silver Spring, MD (US);
William Alexander Goodwin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brandon D. Itkowitz, Natick, MA (US);
Loren C. Shih, Medford, MA (US);
Marc Douglass Midura, Somerville, MA (US);
Joshua E. Handley, Silver Spring, MD (US);
William Alexander Goodwin, Cambridge, MA (US);
SensABLE Technologies, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides methods for leveraging data in the graphics pipeline of a 3D graphics application for use in a haptic rendering of a virtual environment. The invention provides methods for repurposing graphical information for haptic rendering. Thus, at least part of the work that would have been performed by a haptic rendering process to provide touch feedback to a user is obviated by work performed by the graphical rendering process.