Haptic information presentation system and method

• US 10,416,767 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2016
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Government of Japan), Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Government of Japan)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Norio, Fukui, Yukio, Sakai, Masataka, Koda, Natsuo, Osaki, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Medmood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): Subedi, Deeprose
• Application Number:
  US15/285,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20170220112A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/285 Generating tactile feedback signals via the game input device, e.g. force feedback
• CPC Class Codes: B06B 1/0611 in a pile
• CPC Class Codes: B06B 1/16 operating with systems involving rotary unbalanced masses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/013 Force feedback applied to a game
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 6/00 Tactile signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 15/04 Sound-producing devices G10K15/02 takes precedence

Abstract

A haptic information presentation system uses a human sensory characteristic or illusion to suitably control a physical quantity, and causes a person to feel a force which cannot exist physically, or a haptic sensory physical characteristic.

Claims

1. A haptic information presenting system comprising:

an object, the object being an actual object or a virtual object;

a sensor that detects a stimulus by the object and/or to the object including at least one of a position, a velocity, an acceleration, a shape, a displacement, a deformation, an oscillation, a rotation, a vibration, a force, a torque, a pressure, a humidity, a temperature, a viscosity, and an elasticity;

a haptic presenting device that applies a sensory characteristic and/or a sensory illusion of a member to the object, so as to present tactile force and/or a haptic information to the member as if the member actually operates the object; and

a haptic presentation controller that controls the haptic presenting device on the basis of the stimulus from the sensor, wherein

the haptic presentation controller uses that the sensory characteristic which indicates a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to the member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present the tactile force and/or the haptic information,

the sensory characteristic includes at least one of the quantity of stimulus that is provided to the member and the quantity of stimulus that is generated through an operation by the member and the sensory quantity that is presented to the member, and the sensory quantity may not exist physically by utilizing the illusion and/or the sensory characteristic, and

the haptic presenting device presents the stimulus by the object and/or to the object, controls the stimulus that is applied to the object in accordance with the operation by the member, and thereby generates the haptic information.

2. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 1, wherein a touch panel is divided into plural units and disposed in at least one of an array, dots, and pixels, and the plural units of the touch panel comprise to be independently and/or dependently controlled.

3. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 1, wherein the object is the touch panel, and at least one section of the touch panels generates a different sensation of touch and/or a different sensation of a tactile force.

10. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 1, wherein the member comprises an operating member or a member to be operated.

4. A haptic information presenting system comprising:

an object, the object being an actual object or a virtual object;

a sensor that detects a stimulus by the object and/or to the object including at least one of a position, a velocity, an acceleration, a shape, a displacement, a deformation, an oscillation, a rotation, a vibration, a force, a torque, a pressure, a humidity, a temperature, a viscosity, and an elasticity;

a haptic presenting device that applies a sensory characteristic and/or a sensory illusion of a member to the object, so as to present to the member as if the member actually operates the object; and

a haptic presentation controller that controls a tactile force and/or a haptic sensation on the basis of the stimulus from the sensor, wherein

the haptic presentation controller uses that the sensory characteristic which indicates a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to the member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present the tactile force and/or the haptic information,

the sensory characteristic includes at least one of the quantity of stimulus that is provided to the member and the quantity of stimulus that is generated through an operation by the member and the sensory quantity that is presented to the member, wherein the sensory quantity may not exist physically by utilizing the illusion and/or the sensory characteristic, and

the haptic presenting device presents at least one of the oscillation, the displacement, and the deformation to the object.

5. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4, wherein a touch panel is divided into plural units and disposed in at least one of an array, dots, and pixels, and the plural units of the touch panel comprise to be independently and/or dependently controlled.

6. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4, wherein the haptic presenting device presents the tactile force and/or haptic sensation in accordance with the oscillation, the displacement, and/or the deformation generated in the object.

7. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4, wherein the haptic presenting device performs six-dimensional guidance of the object in terms of at least one of the oscillation, the displacement, and the deformation for at least one of each position, each phase, and each time.

8. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4, wherein the haptic presenting device generates at least one of the oscillation, the displacement, and the deformation at right angles, in parallel with, or at an arbitrary angle with respect to a tangent of the object.

11. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4, wherein the member comprises an operating member or a member to be operated.

9. A haptic information presenting system comprising:

an object, the object being an actual object or a virtual object;

a sensor that detects a stimulus by the object and/or to the object including at least one of a position, a velocity, an acceleration, a shape, a displacement, a deformation, an oscillation, a rotation, a vibration, a force, a torque, a pressure, a humidity, a temperature, a viscosity, and an elasticity;

a haptic presenting device that applies a sensory characteristic and/or a sensory illusion of a member to the object, so as to present a tactile force and/or a haptic sensation to the member as if the member actually operates the object; and

a haptic presentation controller that controls the tactile force and/or the haptic sensation on the basis of the stimulus from the sensor, wherein

the haptic presentation controller uses that the sensory characteristic which indicates a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to a member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present a tactile force and/or a haptic information,

the haptic presentation controller uses the sensory characteristic which a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to a member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present the tactile force and/or the haptic information,

the sensory characteristic includes at least one of the quantity of stimulus that is provided to the member and the quantity of stimulus that is generated through an operation by the member and the sensory quantity may not exist physically by utilizing the illusion and/or the sensory characteristic, and

the haptic presenting device is a sense synthesizing and/or guiding device that synthesizes sensations of guidance, and the sense synthesizing and/or guiding device generates at least one of a sensation of pressure, a sensation of force, and the sensory illusion to the object.

12. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 9, wherein the member comprises an operating member or a member to be operated.

13. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 9, wherein the member comprises a person or an object.