Patent ID: 7911328

Claim:
A method for reproducing and applying to a remote video and audio viewer reproductions of haptic vibrations that occur at a live activity, the method comprising: (a) in synchronism with sensing visible and audible stimuli to generate video and audio signals representing the video and audio at the activity, sensing haptic vibrations of an object at the activity and converting the sensed haptic vibrations into a haptic signal; (b) transmitting to a remote location or recording a digital or analog haptic signal containing information about the timing and characteristic of the sensed haptic vibrations separately from the visible and audible signals; (c) at a location that is remote from the activity, detecting said information and from the detected information generating and applying a reproduction of the sensed haptic vibration signal, in synchronism with reproduction of the sensed video signal and of the sensed audio signal, to an electromechanical transducer that is mechanically connected to a solid object in physical contact with a remote viewer and is capable of transducing the haptic vibration signal to a representation of the sensed haptic vibration.