US Patent Issued to NTT on July 28 for "Apparent force control device, apparent force presentation system, apparent force control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,599, issued on July 28, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Apparent force control device, apparent force presentation system, apparent force control method, and program" was invented by Yusuke Ujitoko (Tokyo) and Takahiro Kawabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes vibrating a second presentation visual object with respect to a first presentation visual object so as to include a vibration component of a specific control frequency, the second presentation visual object being in contact with or in proximity to the first presentation visual object, and making an apparent force appear to be applied from th...