Haptic accessory and methods for using same
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1. An apparatus for providing tactile feedback, comprising:
- an actuator, wherein the actuator is capable of generating a vibration pattern based on received time varying data, the time-varying data being associated with a visual representation segmented into a plurality of portions each having at least one haptic property;
a plurality of fibers on the actuator; and
a membrane on the plurality of fibers, wherein the plurality of fibers extend vertically from a surface and are arranged on the surface in a side-by-side configuration;
wherein a haptic property of a first portion of the plurality of portions comprises a first texture and a haptic property of a second portion of the plurality of portions comprises a second texture that is different from the first texture; and
wherein the vibration pattern generated by the actuator varies based at least on differences between the haptic properties of each of the first and second portions.
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Abstract
A method for providing tactile feedback comprises displaying a visual representation of a physical object having at least one haptic property, generating time-varying data associated with the at least one haptic property from the visual representation, sending the time-varying data to a computing device including a feedback apparatus electrically connected to the computing device, and generating the tactile feedback via the feedback apparatus in response to a pressure on the feedback apparatus applied by a user.
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15 Claims
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1. An apparatus for providing tactile feedback, comprising:
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an actuator, wherein the actuator is capable of generating a vibration pattern based on received time varying data, the time-varying data being associated with a visual representation segmented into a plurality of portions each having at least one haptic property; a plurality of fibers on the actuator; and a membrane on the plurality of fibers, wherein the plurality of fibers extend vertically from a surface and are arranged on the surface in a side-by-side configuration; wherein a haptic property of a first portion of the plurality of portions comprises a first texture and a haptic property of a second portion of the plurality of portions comprises a second texture that is different from the first texture; and wherein the vibration pattern generated by the actuator varies based at least on differences between the haptic properties of each of the first and second portions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising program code tangibly embodied thereon, which when executed by a computer, performs method steps for providing tactile feedback, the method steps comprising:
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capturing a visual representation of a physical object having at least one haptic property; segmenting the captured visual representation into a plurality of portions; generating, at a first computing device, time-varying data associated with at least one haptic property of each of the portions; sending, via a network and from the first computing device, the visual representation and the time-varying data to a second computing device including a feedback apparatus electrically connected to the second computing device, wherein the time-varying data is sent to the second computing device as meta data; and generating the tactile feedback via the feedback apparatus in response to a pressure on the feedback apparatus applied by a user; wherein a haptic property of a first portion of the plurality of portions comprises a first texture and a haptic property of a second portion of the plurality of portions comprises a second texture that is different from the first texture; wherein the time-varying data is processed such that the feedback apparatus of the second computing device is configured to present at least the haptic properties of each of the first and second portions of the captured visual representation; and wherein the time-varying data varies based at least on differences between the haptic properties of each of the first and second portions. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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