SHAPE CHANGING MATERIAL
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- a garment including;
a fabric;
one or more sensors, the one or more sensors being arranged to detect a shape-related parameter of the fabric and responsive to the detected shape-related parameter to produce a first signal; and
one or more control elements responsive to a second signal and arranged to provide a force on the fabric corresponding to the second signal; and
circuitry responsive to the first signal to determine an initial shape of the fabric, to determine a change in the fabric shape according to a difference between the initial shape of the fabric and a target shape, and to produce the second signal according to the determined change in the fabric shape.
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Abstract
An apparatus may be configured with one or more sensors arranged to detect a first shape-related parameter, one or more control elements arranged to provide a force, and circuitry operably connected to the one or more sensors and the one or more control elements to determine the force provided to the one or more control elements.
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a garment including; a fabric; one or more sensors, the one or more sensors being arranged to detect a shape-related parameter of the fabric and responsive to the detected shape-related parameter to produce a first signal; and one or more control elements responsive to a second signal and arranged to provide a force on the fabric corresponding to the second signal; and circuitry responsive to the first signal to determine an initial shape of the fabric, to determine a change in the fabric shape according to a difference between the initial shape of the fabric and a target shape, and to produce the second signal according to the determined change in the fabric shape. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 12, 20, 40, 41, 42, 49)
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97. In an apparatus comprising a fabric coupled to electronic circuitry, a method comprising:
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sensing a shape-related parameter, the shape-related parameter corresponding to region of the fabric; producing data corresponding to an initial shape of the region of the fabric according to the sensed shape-related parameter; responsive to the produced data corresponding to the initial shape, selecting a target shape of the region of fabric and producing a fabric shape changing signal, the fabric shape changing signal being selected to produce the target shape of the region of the fabric; and applying force to the region of the fabric according to the fabric shape changing signal to produce the target shape. - View Dependent Claims (101, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 119, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 133, 134, 142)
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241. An apparatus comprising:
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one or more sensors, the one or more sensors being arranged to detect a shape-related parameter of a fabric and responsive to the detected shape-related parameter to produce a first signal; a garment including; the fabric; and one or more control elements arranged to provide a force on the fabric corresponding to a second signal different from the first signal; and circuitry responsive to the first signal to determine an initial shape of the fabric, to determine a change in the fabric shape according to a difference between the initial shape of the fabric and a target shape, and to produce the second signal according to a first determined change in the fabric shape. - View Dependent Claims (242, 246, 247)
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