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US 10,416,767 · App. 15/285,083 · Granted Sep 17, 2019

Haptic information presentation system and method

Inventors: Norio Nakamura (Ibaraki, JP); Yukio Fukui (Ibaraki, JP); Masataka Sakai (Ibaraki, JP); Natsuo Koda (Ibaraki, JP); Koji Osaki (Ibaraki, JP)
Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; Miraisens, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 10,416,767
App. No.
15/285,083
Granted
Sep 17, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A haptic information presentation system uses a human sensory characteristic or illusion to suitably control a physical quantity, and causes a person to feel a force which cannot exist physically, or a haptic sensory physical characteristic.

Claims (35)

1. A haptic information presenting system comprising:

an object, the object being an actual object or a virtual object;

a sensor that detects a stimulus by the object and/or to the object including at least one of a position, a velocity, an acceleration, a shape, a displacement, a deformation, an oscillation, a rotation, a vibration, a force, a torque, a pressure, a humidity, a temperature, a viscosity, and an elasticity;

a haptic presenting device that applies a sensory characteristic and/or a sensory illusion of a member to the object, so as to present tactile force and/or a haptic information to the member as if the member actually operates the object; and

a haptic presentation controller that controls the haptic presenting device on the basis of the stimulus from the sensor, wherein

the haptic presentation controller uses that the sensory characteristic which indicates a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to the member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present the tactile force and/or the haptic information,

the sensory characteristic includes at least one of the quantity of stimulus that is provided to the member and the quantity of stimulus that is generated through an operation by the member and the sensory quantity that is presented to the member, and the sensory quantity may not exist physically by utilizing the illusion and/or the sensory characteristic, and

the haptic presenting device presents the stimulus by the object and/or to the object, controls the stimulus that is applied to the object in accordance with the operation by the member, and thereby generates the haptic information.

2. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 1 , wherein a touch panel is divided into plural units and disposed in at least one of an array, dots, and pixels, and the plural units of the touch panel comprise to be independently and/or dependently controlled.

3. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 1 , wherein the object is the touch panel, and at least one section of the touch panels generates a different sensation of touch and/or a different sensation of a tactile force.

4. A haptic information presenting system comprising:

an object, the object being an actual object or a virtual object;

a sensor that detects a stimulus by the object and/or to the object including at least one of a position, a velocity, an acceleration, a shape, a displacement, a deformation, an oscillation, a rotation, a vibration, a force, a torque, a pressure, a humidity, a temperature, a viscosity, and an elasticity;

a haptic presenting device that applies a sensory characteristic and/or a sensory illusion of a member to the object, so as to present to the member as if the member actually operates the object; and

a haptic presentation controller that controls a tactile force and/or a haptic sensation on the basis of the stimulus from the sensor, wherein

the haptic presentation controller uses that the sensory characteristic which indicates a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to the member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present the tactile force and/or the haptic information,

the sensory characteristic includes at least one of the quantity of stimulus that is provided to the member and the quantity of stimulus that is generated through an operation by the member and the sensory quantity that is presented to the member, wherein the sensory quantity may not exist physically by utilizing the illusion and/or the sensory characteristic, and

the haptic presenting device presents at least one of the oscillation, the displacement, and the deformation to the object.

5. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4 , wherein a touch panel is divided into plural units and disposed in at least one of an array, dots, and pixels, and the plural units of the touch panel comprise to be independently and/or dependently controlled.

6. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4 , wherein the haptic presenting device presents the tactile force and/or haptic sensation in accordance with the oscillation, the displacement, and/or the deformation generated in the object.

7. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4 , wherein the haptic presenting device performs six-dimensional guidance of the object in terms of at least one of the oscillation, the displacement, and the deformation for at least one of each position, each phase, and each time.

8. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4 , wherein the haptic presenting device generates at least one of the oscillation, the displacement, and the deformation at right angles, in parallel with, or at an arbitrary angle with respect to a tangent of the object.

9. A haptic information presenting system comprising:

an object, the object being an actual object or a virtual object;

a sensor that detects a stimulus by the object and/or to the object including at least one of a position, a velocity, an acceleration, a shape, a displacement, a deformation, an oscillation, a rotation, a vibration, a force, a torque, a pressure, a humidity, a temperature, a viscosity, and an elasticity;

a haptic presenting device that applies a sensory characteristic and/or a sensory illusion of a member to the object, so as to present a tactile force and/or a haptic sensation to the member as if the member actually operates the object; and

a haptic presentation controller that controls the tactile force and/or the haptic sensation on the basis of the stimulus from the sensor, wherein

the haptic presentation controller uses that the sensory characteristic which indicates a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to a member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present a tactile force and/or a haptic information,

the haptic presentation controller uses the sensory characteristic which a relationship between a quantity of stimulus applied to a member and a sensory quantity comprises nonlinear and/or the sensory illusion to control the stimulus and present the tactile force and/or the haptic information,

the sensory characteristic includes at least one of the quantity of stimulus that is provided to the member and the quantity of stimulus that is generated through an operation by the member and the sensory quantity may not exist physically by utilizing the illusion and/or the sensory characteristic, and

the haptic presenting device is a sense synthesizing and/or guiding device that synthesizes sensations of guidance, and the sense synthesizing and/or guiding device generates at least one of a sensation of pressure, a sensation of force, and the sensory illusion to the object.

10. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 1 , wherein the member comprises an operating member or a member to be operated.

11. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 4 , wherein the member comprises an operating member or a member to be operated.

12. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 9 , wherein the member comprises an operating member or a member to be operated.

13. The haptic information presenting system according to claim 9 , wherein the member comprises a person or an object.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2021
From: MIRAISENS, INC.
To: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057981/0527 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE CORRECT THE NEW ASSIGNMENT DOCUMENT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 042085 FRAME: 0847. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jul 10, 2019
From: NAKAMURA, NORIO; FUKUI, YUKIO; SAKAI, MASATAKA; KODA, NATSUO; OSAKI, KOJI
To: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; MIRAISENS, INC.
Reel/Frame 049709/0649 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2017
From: NAKAMURA, NORIO; FUKUI, YUKIO; SAKAI, MASATAKA
To: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Reel/Frame 042085/0847 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2017
From: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
To: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; MIRAISENS, INC.
Reel/Frame 042085/0946 →
Priority Claims (4)
JP 2003-390802 · Nov 20, 2003 · national
JP 2003-402892 · Dec 2, 2003 · national
JP 2004-331263 · Nov 15, 2004 · national
JP 2015-208387 · Oct 5, 2015 · national
Continuity (6)
Continuation In Part 14840423 · Aug 31, 2015
Continuation 13855935 · Apr 3, 2013
Continuation 12710813 · Feb 23, 2010
Continuation 10579672
Provisional Application 62237101 · Oct 5, 2015
Related Publication 20170220112A1 · Aug 3, 2017
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