Haptic browsing
DCFirst Claim
1. A method of haptic browsing, comprising the steps of:
- providing a computer interfaced to a display device and a force-feedback controller;
accessing a file at the computer containing geometric object descriptions including attributes relating to touch; and
viewing an object on the display device while simultaneously haptically interacting with the object using the force-feedback controller.
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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.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of haptic browsing, comprising the steps of:
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providing a computer interfaced to a display device and a force-feedback controller; accessing a file at the computer containing geometric object descriptions including attributes relating to touch; and viewing an object on the display device while simultaneously haptically interacting with the object using the force-feedback controller. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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