Haptic experience service method and system

A haptic experience service system, comprising:

• a haptic reproduction apparatus providing haptic information of a force and texture of a virtual object or environment to a user
• a server defining a virtual environmental factor to be serviced to the user by using a haptic contents database constructed with an environmental factor definition package;
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• a client recognizing an access of the haptic reproduction apparatus, generating an experience environment corresponding to the virtual environment factor, displaying a visual data associated with the experience environment, generating a haptic data output value interacted with the input data generated by a user's manipulation and received from the haptic reproduction apparatus by using an interaction value definition package, and providing the haptic data output value to the haptic reproduction apparatus.

A haptic experience service method in a haptic experience service system, comprising:

• a user who desires to receive a haptic experience service selecting and inputting a type and feature of a haptic reproduction apparatus through a client connected to the haptic reproduction apparatus;
• the client generating an apparatus definition data package based on the type and feature of the haptic reproduction apparatus and transmitting the apparatus definition data package to the server;
• the user accessing the server through the client and selecting a virtual environmental factor corresponding to a user-desired virtual haptic experience service;
• the server defining the virtual environmental factor according to the user's selection, generating a virtual experience environment corresponding to the virtual environmental factor, and providing a visual data of the virtual experience environment to the client;
• the client displaying the visual data on a display screen and transmitting an input data received from the haptic reproduction apparatus to the server under the control of the user who checks the visual data;
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• the server generating a haptic data output value interacted with the input data and providing the haptic data output value to the haptic reproduction apparatus through the client.

A haptic experience service method in a haptic experience service system, comprising:

• a user who desires to receive a haptic experience service selecting and inputting a type and feature of a haptic reproduction apparatus through a client connected to the haptic reproduction apparatus;
• the client generating an apparatus definition data package based on the type and feature of the haptic reproduction apparatus and transmitting the apparatus definition data package to the server;
• the user accessing the server through the client and selecting a virtual environmental factor corresponding to a user-desired virtual haptic experience service, so that the server defines an environmental factor according to the user's selection and provides the environmental factor to the client;
• the client generating an experience environment corresponding to the environmental factor, extracting a visual data associated with the experience environment, and displaying the visual data on a display screen;
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• the client generating a haptic data output value interacted with the input data received from the haptic reproduction apparatus under the control of the user and providing the haptic data output value to the haptic reproduction apparatus.