Method and system for providing haptic effects based on information complementary to multimedia content

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, an audio track or a video track associated with multimedia content;

receiving, by the processor, complementary data that describes the multimedia content;

determining, by the processor, a single haptic effect by both (i) analyzing the audio track or the video track and (ii) using the complementary data; and

outputting, by the processor, the haptic effect via a haptic output device while playing the multimedia content.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the complementary data comprises tag data, the tag data comprising at least one of a title, artist, author, genre, rating, review, a list of songs, or a song type.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the single haptic effect further comprises:

determining a preliminary haptic effect by analyzing the audio track or the video track;

determining a haptic theme using the complementary data; and

determining the single haptic effect by modifying a characteristic of the preliminary haptic effect based on the haptic theme.

4. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising software program code executable by a processor, the software program code configured to cause the processor to:

receive an audio track or a video track associated with multimedia content;

receive complementary data that describes the multimedia content;

determine a single haptic effect by both (i) analyzing the audio track or the video track and (ii) using the complementary data; and

output the haptic effect, via a haptic output device, while playing the multimedia content.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 4 , wherein the complementary data comprises tag data, the tag data comprising at least one of a title, artist, author, genre, rating, review, a list of songs, or a song type.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 4 , wherein determining the single haptic effect further comprises:

determining a preliminary haptic effect by analyzing the audio track or the video track;

determining a haptic theme using the complementary data; and

determining the single haptic effect by modifying a characteristic of the preliminary haptic effect based on the haptic theme.

7. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising computer program code executable by the processor for causing the processor to:

receive an audio track or a video track associated with multimedia content;

receive complementary data that describes the multimedia content;

determine a single haptic effect by both (i) analyzing the audio track or the video track and (ii) using the complementary data; and

output the haptic effect, via a haptic output device, while playing the multimedia content.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the complementary data comprises tag data, the tag data comprising at least one of a title, artist, author, genre, rating, review, a list of songs, or a song type.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein determining the single haptic effect further comprises:

determining a preliminary haptic effect by analyzing the audio track or the video track;

determining a haptic theme using the complementary data; and

determining the single haptic effect by modifying a characteristic of the preliminary haptic effect based on the haptic theme.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the single haptic effect is determined at least in part by:

analyzing the audio track to determine one or more words associated with the audio track event; and

determining the single haptic effect based at least in part on the one or more words associated with the audio track.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the one or more words comprises a particular phrase.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the single haptic effect comprises no haptic effect in response to the one or more words being surrounded by quotation marks.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the single haptic effect is determined at least in part:

analyzing the video track to determine one or more visual events associated with the video track; and

determining the single haptic effect based at least in part on the one or more visual events associated with the video track.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the complementary data comprises closed caption data or subtitle data.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining context information based on the complementary data; and

determining the single haptic effect by analyzing the audio track or the video track in view of the context information.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the single haptic effect is a first haptic effect, and further comprising:

determining a second haptic effect; and

determining a priority of the first haptic effect with respect to the second haptic effect.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

inserting the first haptic effect or the second haptic effect into a haptic track based on the priority.

18. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a weight associated with a word in the complementary data, the weight indicating a priority of the word.

19. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a haptic theme using the complementary data; and

determining that the single haptic effect is not to be modified according to a modification associated with the haptic theme.