System for combining haptic sensory-motor effects from two separate input devices into resultant sensory-motor effects and for feedback of such resultant effects between the input devices

A method for communicating haptic sensory-motor states in a communications network comprising a plurality of interconnected computer controlled terminals comprising:

• receiving at a first terminal, data representing an original spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect transmitted from a second terminal,
• converting said received data into the spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect represented by said data,
• juxtaposing upon said spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect, a spatially arrayed direct physical haptic sensory-motor effect to thereby produce a resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect, and
• transmitting from said first terminal, data representing said resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect back to said second terminal,
• converting at second terminal, said data representing said resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect into the actual spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect, and
• juxtaposing upon said actual spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect at said second terminal, a spatially arrayed direct physical haptic sensory-motor effect represented by original spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect data, to thereby produce at said second terminal, a resultant second terminal spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect concurrent with the resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect.

A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for communicating haptic sensory-motor states between two terminals in a communications network comprising a plurality of interconnected computer controlled terminals comprising:

• means at a first terminal for receiving data representing an original spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect transmitted from a second terminal,
• means for converting said received data into the spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect represented by said data,
• means for juxtaposing upon said spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect, a spatially arrayed direct physical haptic sensory-motor effect to thereby produce a resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect, and
• means at said first terminal for transmitting data representing said resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect back to said second terminal,
• means at said second terminal for converting said data representing said resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect into the actual spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor affect, and
• means at said second terminal for juxtaposing upon said actual spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect, a spatially arrayed direct physical haptic sensory-motor effect represented by original spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect data, to thereby produce at said second terminal, a resultant second terminal spatially arrayed physical haptic sensory-motor effect concurrent with the resultant first terminal spatially arrayed haptic sensory-motor effect.