Method and apparatus for providing tactile message

Abstract

The present invention relates to a tactile message providing method and a tactile message providing device. Embodiments of the present invention provide a tactile message providing method for a tactile sense in a mobile communication terminal device, the method including: (a) driving a tactile message program; (b) receiving a tactile pattern; (c) converting the tactile pattern into a pattern signal; and (d) transmitting the pattern signal to a reception terminal device, wherein the tactile message program includes a tactile pattern input window or a tactile switch icon for switching a text input window to a tactile pattern input window, wherein the pattern signal is a signal capable of transmitting tactile information by operating a tactile delivery unit of the reception terminal device.

1 . A tactile message providing method for a tactile sense in a mobile communication terminal device, the method comprising:
 (a) driving a tactile message program;   (b) selecting a dialog partner;   (c) receiving a tactile pattern;   (d) converting the tactile pattern into a pattern signal; and   (e) transmitting the pattern signal to a reception terminal device,   
       wherein step (c) comprises at least one of:
 selecting an emoticon, and 
 receiving a tactile pattern which includes at least one of an intensity, a position, a time, and a movement direction that a user touches a tactile pattern input window of the tactile message program. 
 
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the tactile pattern is a combination including at least two of an intensity, a position, a time, and a movement direction that a user touches the tactile pattern input window of the tactile message program.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein in step (c),
 the emoticon includes an image corresponding to the message to be transmitted by the user, 
 when the emoticon is selected, a tactile pattern corresponding to the image is received. 
   
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 ,
 wherein the emoticon is a tactile emoticon provided by the tactile message program or a user emoticon previously stored by the user.   
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the tactile message program comprises a tactile pattern input window or a tactile switch icon for switching a text input window to a tactile pattern input window, and   wherein the pattern signal is a signal capable of transmitting tactile information by operating a tactile delivery unit of the reception terminal device.   
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the tactile message program is a widget, a pop-up program, an app, a messenger app, a short message service (SMS), or a multimedia message service (MMS) itself, or is included therein.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the tactile pattern inputted by the user is matched with a tactile pattern DB previously stored in the tactile message program and a pattern signal of the tactile pattern DB is transmitted to the reception terminal device.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the tactile pattern input window is divided into a plurality of virtual regions, and the virtual region receives a tactile pattern to generate a digital signal independently, and the pattern signal is composed of a sum of the generated digital signals.   
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 ,
 wherein the pattern signal is a signal capable of transmitting stereoscopic tactile information having directionality, by operating each tactile delivery unit of the reception terminal device corresponding to each of the virtual regions.   
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 (f) receiving content, and   (g) transmitting content signal to the reception terminal device.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 ,
 wherein the content includes at least one of dialogue text, sounds, sound effects, pictures, and videos.   
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 10 ,
 wherein steps (e) and (g) are performed simultaneously or sequentially.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the tactile message includes at least one of vibration, squeeze, fasten, punch, push, tap, tilt, and tickle.   
     
     
         14 . A nonvolatile computer-readable recording medium, in which a program of a tactile message providing method executable by a processor of a mobile communication terminal device is recorded, the method comprising:
 (a) converting a received tactile pattern into a pattern signal; and   (b) transmitting the pattern signal to a reception terminal device,   
       wherein the tactile message includes tactile information or tactile information and content information.