Message #1 From:
Jason Date: September 25, 2006 03:23:54 PM
SNE being Sued!
SNE is being sued by California based Immersion Corporation (Nasdaq:IMMR).
The company alleges patent infringment on its Haptics technology.
Haptics
Gibson (1966) defines the haptic system as "The sensibility of the individual to the world adjacent to his body by use of his body". The haptic perceptual system is unusual in that it can include the sensory receptors from the whole body and is closely linked to the movement of the body so can have a direct effect on the world being perceived. The concept of haptic perception is closely allied to the concept of active touch that realises that more information is gathered when a motor plan (movement) is associated with the sensory system, and that of extended physiological proprioception a realisation that when using a tool such as a stick, the perception is transparently transferred to the end of the tool.
