Patent ID: 8228298

Claim:
Method of transmitting tactile information to a touch plate ( 10 ) of a tactile display containing tactile pads ( 11 ), said touch plate ( 10 ) being controlled by a server ( 54 , 64 , 74 ), and in this method, (a) tactile information transmitted in the form of a digital word is defined as being a sequence of a predefined number of images together forming a pattern, each image having a rank in the pattern, each pattern being defined by: a design of successive images, the designs corresponding to a first and to a second image being identical to each other if the tactile pads in the first design and the tactile pads in the second design in the same geographic position in each of the first and the second images are in the same state, and being distinct from each other if they are not in the same state, a duration for each image as a function of its rank in the sequence of images, a duration between successive consecutive images, a duration between consecutive patterns; (b) said word is transmitted to a tactile display server ( 54 , 64 , 74 ), preceded by a beacon indicating that data following the beacon must be directed to the touch plate control server; (c) a series of instructions is activated when the tactile display server receives the word, this series having a start address that depends on said word, said series of instructions being used to display the successive images together forming the pattern corresponding to the word to be displayed, said series of instructions being repeated to display the same pattern a predefined number of times or for a predetermined duration.