Interactive Tangible Interface for Hand Motion
First Claim
1. A haptic device comprising:
- a housing configured conform to a user'"'"'s hand; and
at least one force sensor configured to measure the pressure exerted by at least one figure of a user'"'"'s hand on the exterior portion of the housing;
a microcontroller disposed within the housing and in communication with;
an inertial measurement unit (IMU) disposed within the ball configured to detect motion of the housing; and
a haptic actuator for providing a haptic feedback; and
a wireless communication module for transmitting and receiving data to and from other peripheral devices.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media are disclosed, for receiving, from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) the motion information of an interactive digital stress ball device and from the force detection sensors the pressure information exerted on each of the sensors attached on the ball surface. A haptic actuator and a haptic simulator are used to generate haptic feedback. The sensory analog signals are converted to digital signals and feed into the kinematic computation to calculate performance metrics. Sensory data is transmitted wirelessly to other digital entities. The interactive digital stress ball can also receive digital commands through wireless communication for the generation of the haptic feedback. The electronically embedded stress ball is able to track the motion of the hand and wirelessly transmit a set of kinematics that can be used to control computer games and other peripheral devices.
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19 Claims
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1. A haptic device comprising:
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a housing configured conform to a user'"'"'s hand; and at least one force sensor configured to measure the pressure exerted by at least one figure of a user'"'"'s hand on the exterior portion of the housing; a microcontroller disposed within the housing and in communication with; an inertial measurement unit (IMU) disposed within the ball configured to detect motion of the housing; and a haptic actuator for providing a haptic feedback; and a wireless communication module for transmitting and receiving data to and from other peripheral devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
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receiving, from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) the motion information of a ball shaped device; and receiving, from the force detection sensors the pressure information exerted on each of the sensors; and simulating and generating haptic feedback; and conditioning signal to convert sensory analog signals to digital signals; and calculating kinematic performance metrics; and transmitting sensory data to other digital entities and receiving digital commands for generating the haptic feedback. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory computer-readable memory having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:
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instructions for receiving, from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) the motion information of a device; and instructions for receiving, from the force detection sensors the pressure information exerted on each of the sensors; and instructions for simulating and generating haptic feedback; and instructions for converting sensory analog signals to digital signals; and instructions for computing kinematic performance metrics; and instructions for transmitting sensory data to other digital entities and receiving digital commands for generating the haptic feedback.
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