WIRELESS HAPTIC GLOVE FOR LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION TRANSFERENCE

• US 20100134327A1
• Filed: 11/28/2008
• Published: 06/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: the united states of america as represented by the secretary of the navy
• Original Assignee: the united states of america as represented by the secretary of the navy
• Inventors: Ceruti, Marion G., Ton, Tu-Anh, DINH, Vincent Vinh, Duffy, LorRaine, Phan, Hoa Van, Tran, Nghia Xuan
• Application Number:
  US12/325,046
• Publication Number:
  US 20100134327A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/20
• 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 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883

Abstract

A haptic language communication glove is disclosed containing, a wearable glove with accommodations for fingers therein, a plurality of motion sensors positioned near tips of fingers of the glove, a plurality of vibrators positioned near the tips of the fingers of the glove, a controller having communication channels to the plurality of motion sensors and plurality of vibrators, a wireless transceiver coupled to the controller, and a power supply, wherein tapping motion by the fingers of a user of the glove is interpreted as language characters of a first type, the language characters of the first type being converted into language characters of a second type for at least one of transmission and storage.

Claims

1. A haptic language communication glove, comprising:

a wearable glove with accommodations for fingers therein;

a plurality of motion sensors positioned near tips of fingers of the glove;

a plurality of vibrators positioned near the tips of the fingers of the glove;

a controller having communication channels to the plurality of motion sensors and plurality of vibrators, wherein the controller is configured to interpret tapping motion by the fingers of a user of the glove as language characters of a first type and wherein the controller is further configured to convert the language characters of the first type into language characters of a second type for at least one of transmission and storage;

a wireless transceiver coupled to the controller; and

a power supply.

2. The haptic language communication glove of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured to wirelessly transmit language characters of the second type to a transceiver of another glove wearer.

3. The haptic language communication glove of claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to convert received language characters of the second type to language characters of the first type, and the plurality of vibrators are configured to communicate to the glove wearer characters of the second type via vibrations from the plurality of vibrators.

4. The haptic language communication glove of claim 1, wherein the power supply is a battery.

5. The haptic language communication glove of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to store language characters of the second type in memory resident on the glove.

6. The haptic language communication glove of claim 1, wherein the language characters of the first type are Braille.

7. The haptic language communication glove of claim 1, wherein fingers of the glove correspond to at least one of a first positioning and second positioning of Braille symbology.

8. The haptic language communication glove of claim 1, wherein the language characters of the second type are American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).

9. A method for communicating using a haptic language communication glove, comprising:

detecting tapping of fingers of a wearer of the glove using a plurality of motion sensors on the glove;

interpreting the tapping of the fingers as corresponding to language characters of a first type using a microcontroller on the glove;

converting the language characters of the first type into language characters of a second type using the microcontroller;

performing at least one of storing and transmitting the language characters of the second type.

10. The method for communicating of claim 9, wherein the transmitting is performed using a wireless transceiver on the glove.

11. The method for communicating of claim 9, wherein the wireless transceiver transmits to a wireless transceiver of another glove wearer.

12. The method for communicating of claim 9, further comprising:

vibrating individual fingers of a glove wearer to communicate language characters of the first type in response to receiving language characters of the second type.

13. The method for communicating of claim 9, wherein the language characters of the second type are stored in memory resident on the glove.

14. The method for communicating of claim 9, wherein the language characters of the first type are Braille.

15. The method for communicating of claim 14, wherein a first positioning and second positioning of the Braille symbology correspond to three fingers of the glove.

16. The method for communicating of claim 9, wherein the language characters of the second type are ASCII.

17. A haptic language communication glove, comprising:

means for covering a hand;

means for detecting tapping, positioned near tips of the means for covering;

means for generating vibration, positioned near the tips of the means for covering;

means for computing having communication channels to the means for detecting tapping and means for generating vibration;

means for wireless communication being coupled to the means for computing; and

means for providing power to all of the above means, wherein tapping by fingers of a user of the glove is interpreted as language characters of a first type, the language characters of the first type being converted into language characters of a second type for at least one of transmission and storage.

18. The haptic language communication glove of claim 17, wherein received language characters of the second type are communicated to the glove wearer by converting the language characters of the second type to language characters of the first type via vibrations from the means for generating vibration.

19. The haptic language communication glove of claim 17, wherein the language characters of the first type are Braille.

20. The haptic language communication glove of claim 17, wherein the language characters of the second type are ASCII.