Patent ID: 9588586
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06F,G06T

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a host computer configured to generate a virtual environment on a display; a processor; a haptic peripheral including an actuator, wherein the actuator is configured to receive a control signal from the processor and output a haptic effect caused by a virtual object in the virtual environment to the haptic peripheral in response to the control signal from the processor, and wherein the processor is configured to vary the control signal for the actuator depending on a zoom state of a virtual camera of the virtual environment such that a first zoom state results in the actuator generating and applying the haptic effect caused by the virtual object in the virtual environment as a first haptic effect, and a second zoom state results in the actuator generating and applying the haptic effect caused by the virtual object in the virtual environment as a second haptic effect, the virtual object appearing closer in the second zoom state than in the first zoom state and the first haptic effect being weaker than the second haptic effect.