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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
3d Systems, Inc., Rock Hill, SC (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);
3D Systems, Inc., Rock Hill, SC (US);
Abstract
The invention provides systems and methods for using a 'haptic camera' within a virtual environment and for using graphical data from the haptic camera to produce touch feedback. The haptic camera obtains graphical data pertaining to virtual objects within the vicinity and along the trajectory of a user-controlled haptic interface device. The graphical data from the camera is interpreted haptically, thereby allowing touch feedback corresponding to the virtual environment to be provided to the user.