Vincent Lévesque

Pending Patent

Systems And Methods For Tactile Guidance

Abdelwahab Hamam, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Liwen Wu, Jamal Saboune, Vincent Lévesque, Robert Lacroix, Danny Grant

US Patent Application 14/697,680, filed April 28, 2015, pending.

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Abstract

Systems and methods for tactile guidance are disclosed. One illustrative method disclosure herein includes: receiving a sensor signal from a sensor configured to determine one or more objects associated with an area; determining area information based in part on the sensor signal; determining a haptic effect based in part on the area information; and transmitting a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect to a haptic output device configured to output the haptic effect.