Tactile force sense information display system and method

• US 20070091063A1
• Filed: 11/19/2004
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Government of Japan)
• Original Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Government of Japan)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Norio, Fukui, Yukio, Sakai, Masataka
• Application Number:
  US10/579,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20070091063A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/285 Generating tactile feedback signals via the game input device, e.g. force feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/013 Force feedback applied to a game
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• 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: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 6/00 Tactile signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 15/04 Sound-producing devices G10K15/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/36 Repeater circuits H04B3/58 takes precedence

Abstract

A system and a method are realized in which in a conventional non-grounding man-machine interface having no reaction base on the human body and for giving the existence of a virtual object and the impact force of a collision to a person, a haptic sensation of a torque, a force and the like can be continuously presented in the same direction, which can not be presented by only the physical characteristic of a haptic sensation presentation device. In a haptic presentation device 112, the rotation velocity of at least one rotator in the haptic presentation device 112 is controlled by a control device 111, and a vibration, a force or a torque as the physical characteristic is controlled, so that the user 110 is made to conceive various haptic information of the vibration, force, torque or the like. The haptic information presentation system uses a human sensory characteristic or illusion to suitably control the physical quantity, and causes the person to feel a force which can not exist physically, or a haptic sensory physical characteristic.

Claims

1. A haptic information presentation system, comprising:

a haptic presentation unit having two eccentric rotators; and

a control unit that independently changes one or more of a frequency of a vibration, an intensity of a vibration and a vibration sensation by controlling one or more of rotation directions, a phase relation or rotation speeds of the two eccentric rotators.

24. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 1, wherein

the haptic presentation unit includes a rotation unit to rotate the eccentric rotator,

the control unit controls a rotation state of the rotation unit included in the haptic presentation unit, and the rotation unit rotates together with the eccentric rotator to be rotated.

2. A haptic information presentation system, comprising:

a haptic presentation unit having two eccentric rotators; and

a control unit that independently changes one or more of a frequency of a force, an intensity of a force or a force sensation by inverting rotation directions in the two eccentric rotators.

14. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 2, wherein

the haptic presentation unit includes a rotation unit to rotate the eccentric rotator,

the control unit controls a rotation state of the rotation unit included in the haptic presentation unit, and the rotation unit rotates together with the eccentric rotator to be rotated.

15. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 14, wherein the haptic presentation unit includes a fin rotated together with the eccentric rotator, and a fluid surrounding the fin.

16. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 15, wherein

the fluid is air, and

the haptic presentation_unit includes a hole opposite to the fin and communicating with outside.

17. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 14, further comprising an input unit to input external information to the control unit,

wherein the control unit controls a rotation state of each of the eccentric rotators included in the haptic presentation unit in accordance with the external information inputted from the input unit.

18. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 17, wherein

the haptic presentation unit includes the input unit and the control unit, and

the haptic presentation unit itself is the haptic information presentation system.

19. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 14, wherein

piezoelectric elements are used instead of the eccentric rotators, and

the control unit controls a voltage of each of the piezoelectric elements included in the haptic presentation unit.

20. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 14, wherein magnets are used instead of the eccentric rotators, and the control unit controls a voltage of each of the magnets included in the haptic presentation unit.

21. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 14, wherein material particles of the two eccentric rotators rotate around a same rotation axis on a same plane.

22. A haptic presentation_device of a haptic information presentation system, comprising a function of a haptic presentation unit of a haptic information presentation system according to claim 14.

23. A control device of a haptic information presentation system, comprising a function of a control unit of a haptic information presentation system according to claim 14.

3. A haptic information presentation system, comprising:

a haptic presentation unit having an eccentric rotator array in which one or more of multiple single eccentric rotators, or twin eccentric rotators each having two eccentric rotators, or plural twin eccentric rotators arranged in a three-dimensional space are arranged two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally; and

a control unit to control a rotation state of each of the eccentric rotators included in the haptic presentation unit.

4. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 3, wherein

the eccentric rotator array is adapted to form a skin-shaped eccentric rotator array, and

the control unit causes the presentation of one or more of a vibration changing spatially and temporally, a vibration sensation, a torque, a torque sensation, a force or a force sensation.

5. The haptic information presentation system according to claim 4, wherein setting the control mode of the skin-shaped eccentric rotator array causes the presentation of one or more of a vibration, a force, a shear force, a torque, a resultant torque to twist a palm or a finger or another whole presentation object, a shape feeling of a three-dimensional object caused by presentation of a three-dimensional resisting force, an elastic feeling, a tactile sensation, a feeling in which a force is transmitted on a palm or a finger or another presentation object;

a feeling in which a material rolls on a palm or a finger or another presentation object, a feeling in which a force, a vibration or a torque passes through a palm or a finger or another presentation object, and a texture of a surface of a virtual object.

6. A haptic information presentation system, comprising:

a haptic presentation unit having plural rotators arranged three-dimensionally; and

a control unit to control a temporal change of a resultant angular momentum vector of the haptic presentation unit,

wherein the control unit causes the generation of a torque with a fixed value by abruptly changing the resultant angular momentum vector in a vicinity of zero, and controls a precession torque to be a specified value or less.

7. The haptic information presentation system according to any one of claim 6, wherein the haptic presentation unit has a shape mountable on a portable communication equipment or a mobile electronic equipment.

8. A haptic information presentation method, wherein when a haptic presentation unit having two eccentric rotators is controlled,

a frequency and an intensity of a vibration and/or a vibration sensation are independently changed by controlling rotation directions, a phase relation and rotation speeds in the two eccentric rotators.

9. A haptic information presentation method, wherein when a haptic presentation unit having two eccentric rotators is controlled,

a frequency and an intensity of a force and/or a force sensation are independently changed by inverting rotation directions in the two eccentric rotators.

10. A haptic information presentation method, wherein when a control is made on a haptic presentation unit having an eccentric rotator array in which plural single eccentric rotators, and/or plural twin eccentric rotators each having two eccentric rotators arranged on a same rotation axis, and/or plural twin eccentric rotators arranged in a three-dimensional space are arranged two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally,

a rotation state of each of the eccentric rotators included in the haptic presentation unit is individually controlled.

11. The haptic information presentation method according to claim 10, wherein

the eccentric rotator array is worked to form a skin-shaped eccentric rotator array, and

a vibration changing spatially and temporally and/or a vibration sensation, a torque and/or a torque sensation, or a force and/or a force sensation is presented.

12. The haptic information presentation method according to claim 11, wherein by setting a control mode of the skin-shaped eccentric rotator array, one of a vibration, a force, a shear force, a torque, a resultant torque to twist a palm or a finger or another whole presentation object, a shape feeling of a three-dimensional object caused by presentation of a three-dimensional resisting force, an elastic feeling, a tactile sensation, a feeling in which a force is transmitted on a palm or a finger or another presentation object, a feeling in which a material rolls on a palm or a finger or another presentation object, a feeling in which a force, a vibration or a torque passes through a palm or a finger or another presentation object, and a texture of a surface of a virtual object is presented.

13. A haptic information presentation method, wherein when a haptic presentation unit having plural rotators arranged three-dimensionally is controlled, a temporal change of a resultant angular momentum vector of the haptic presentation unit is controlled, and

a torque with a fixed value is generated by abruptly changing the resultant angular momentum vector in a vicinity of zero, and a precession torque is controlled to have a specified value or less.