Motion transducer system
AssigneeD-Box Technology Inc.
InventorsPhilippe Roy, Michel Bérubé, Michel Jacques
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Abstract
The system produces movements in a home entertainment chair. It has a motor controller and a plurality of movement generator units for generating small amplitude and low frequency movements in the viewers chair according to desired effects. A synchronization is achieved using an audio/video stream.
Claims17
An apparatus for generating a synchronized motion effect for at least one actuator using an audio/video source stream signal, said apparatus comprising:
- a track analyzer, receiving an audio/video source stream signal comprising a plurality of data packets and extracting a portion of interest in a data packet of the plurality of data packets;
- a synchronization database comprising a plurality of time codes, each related to a specific sequence of data comprised in the portion of interest of a data packet;
- a time code generator receiving and providing the extracted portion of interest of the data packet to the synchronization database, the time code generator further receiving a corresponding time code signal from the synchronization database;
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- an effect generator receiving the time code signal from the time code generator and providing an effect signal, from a stored effect database, synchronized to that time code signal, to at least one actuator.
A method for performing a synchronized effect using a time code in a datastream comprising a plurality of data packets, the method comprising the steps of:
- defining a portion of interest in a data packet of a datastream;
- creating a synchronization database comprising a plurality of time codes each related to a specific sequence of data comprised in the portion of interest of a packet of the datastream;
- receiving a packet of the datastream;
- extracting die portion of interest of the received packet of the datastream;
- accessing the synchronization dathbase using at least the portion of interest of the received packet;
- providing a corresponding time code related to the packet to a generator effect;
- providing an effect related to said provided corresponding time code;
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- actuating at least one actuator using the provided effect.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.