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Haptic authoring tool for animated haptic media production

US10013059B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Disney Enterprises, Inc. · US

Inventors

Ali Israr · Monroeville, US
Jonathan Moran · Columbus, US
Oliver Schneider · Oppenheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 3, 2015
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 11, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2210/28
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving input specifying one or more positional and dimensional properties of a first haptic animation object in an animation tool displaying a representation of a vibrotactile array comprising a plurality of actuators configured to output haptic feedback, computing, based on a rendering algorithm applied to the first haptic animation object, a vector profile for each of the actuators, and computing an intensity value for each of the actuators based on the vector profile of the respective actuator.

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