Patent ID: 9256286
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing tactile feedback, comprising: 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.