Patents Assigned to Haptek, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6147692
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses described herein automate and confer additive properties to morphs (modification of a starting graphical image to a destination graphical image). The enhanced automated additive morphs created by this invention extend the currently limited scope of animation techniques, creating: moving morphs, where characters can speak, move, and emote during the morphing process; parametric character creation, where features can be sequentially added to a character to create a wide variety of resulting characters; behavioral transference, where character behavior can be automatically transferred to newly created characters, and behavioral layering whereby sequential behavior patterns can be concurrently transferred or imparted to a character. The present invention allows an animator to create, animate, control and transform two and three dimensional images instantaneously and fluidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Haptek, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D Shaw, Orion Wilson
  • Patent number: 5737505
    Abstract: A tactile interface system which provides a method for entering user position into a virtual reality and providing tactile feedback from that virtual reality. This system will allow for the representation of the user limb position and enable the user to feel interactions with objects represented in the virtual reality. The system also provides for the recording of tactile information to accompany audio and visual recordings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Haptek, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Shaw, Jack W. Wiley