Inventors:
Tsuyoshi Kuroki - Cambridge MA, US
Christian Sandor - Tokyo, JP
Shinji Uchiyama - Yokohama, JP
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - Tokyo
International Classification:
G06F 3/033
Abstract:
At the time of using a haptic device to present to a user haptics which a first virtual object superimposed on the haptic device receives from a second virtual object superimposed on a real object, the user is enabled to touch within the second virtual object, regardless of the real object. Accordingly, the haptics received from the second virtual object is obtained using a first haptic event model of the first virtual object and a second haptic event model of the second virtual object, and while the first haptic event model corresponds to computer graphics information of the first virtual object, the shape of the first virtual object differs from that of the haptic device, such that instructions can be made regarding the inside of the real object, using the first virtual object.