BODY-WORN DEVICE FOR DANCE SIMULATION

• US 20140015651A1
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shmuel Ur Innovations Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Shmuel Ur
• Inventors: UR, Shmuel
• Granted Patent: US 9,000,899 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/407.1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/28 responding to control signals received from the game device for affecting ambient conditions, e.g. for vibrating players' seats, activating scent dispensers or affecting temperature or light controlling the output signals based on the game progress A63F13/50
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/816 Athletics, e.g. track-and-field sports

Abstract

A body-worn device configured in size and shape to be worn by a user, the body-worn device comprising a tactile feedback actuator configured to supply tactile feedback to the user, wherein said tactile feedback actuator configured to supply the feedback based on instructions provided via a communication channel. Optionally, the body-worn device is configured in size and shape to be worn around a torso of the user. Optionally, the tactile feedback actuator is configured to supply the tactile feedback to a back and/or a chest of the user. Optionally, wherein said body-worn device comprises a first and a second tactile feedback actuators, wherein the first tactile feedback actuator is positioned to be in proximity to a chest of the user, and wherein the second tactile feedback actuator is positioned to be in proximity to a back of the user.

Claims

1. A body-worn device configured in size and shape to be worn by a user, said body-worn device comprising:

a tactile feedback actuator configured to supply tactile feedback to the user, wherein said tactile feedback actuator configured to supply the feedback based on instructions provided via a communication channel.

2. The body-worn device of claim 1, wherein said body-worn device is configured in size and shape to be worn around a torso of the user, and wherein said tactile feedback actuator is configured to supply the tactile feedback to a portion of a body of the user selected from the group consisting of a chest and a back.

3. The body-worn device of claim 1, wherein said body-worn device comprises a first and a second tactile feedback actuators, wherein the first tactile feedback actuator is positioned to be in proximity to a chest of the user, and wherein the second tactile feedback actuator is positioned to be in proximity to a back of the user.

4. The body-worn device of claim 1, wherein said tactile feedback actuator comprising a plate configured to supply pressure on a back of the user, wherein the plate having a shape of a human hand.

5. The body-worn device of claim 1, further comprising a sensor configured to identify movement by the user, and wherein said body-worn device is configured to transmit via the communication channel movement information to be processed by a logic module that is capable of determining tactile feedback to be supplied to the user by said body-worn device.

6. The body-worn device of claim 1, wherein said tactile feedback actuator is configured to supply feedback associated with social dancing.

7. The body-worn device of claim 1, further comprising a support, wherein said support is positioned to be in front of the user and in a distance therefrom to allow the user to place a hand on the support.

8. The body-worn device of claim 7, wherein said support is positioned at an end of a rod, wherein said rod having a configurable length.

9. The body-worn device of claim 1, wherein said body-worn device comprising a belt to be worn by the user, wherein the belt having connected thereto said tactile feedback actuator.

10. The body-worn device of claim 1, wherein the communication channel is a wireless communication channel.