PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism for synchronizing haptic effects with other media components, capable of operating from an arbitrary point in a media transport stream including both haptic information and media information.SOLUTION: Haptic information in a series of frames of a media transport stream is identified and time stamps corresponding thereto are determined in accordance with a master time code signal embedded in the media transport stream. Each media transport stream frame containing haptic information is sequentially assigned with a time stamp. In this way, an actuator is activated at a proper time responsive to the time stamp to generate a haptic effect according to the haptic information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
SYNCHRONIZATION OF HAPTIC EFFECT DATA IN MEDIA TRANSPORT STREAM