Method and system for haptic stimulation

1. A method for providing stimulation to a user at a haptic stimulation device configured to be worn at a body region of the user and having a set of actuators, the method comprising:

receiving an audio input;

determining an operation mode of the haptic stimulation device;

determining a set of parameters based on the audio input, wherein the set of parameters comprises:

a set of frequencies; and

a set of energies, wherein each of the set of energies is associated with one of the set of frequencies;

organizing the set of parameters into a set of groupings based on the set of frequencies;

for each of the set of groupings:

determining a maximum energy associated with the grouping;

comparing the maximum energy with a set of thresholds; and

in an event that the maximum energy does not meet at least one of the set of thresholds, eliminating the maximum energy from a set of maximum energies, wherein the set of maximum energies comprises the maximum energy associated with each grouping;

determining a highest maximum energy in the set of maximum energies, wherein the highest maximum energy is associated with a 1st grouping of the set of groupings;

determining a location associated with the body region based on the 1st grouping;

prescribing a subset of the set of actuators based on the location;

determining an actuation intensity for each of the subset of actuators based on the highest maximum energy;

actuating the subset of actuators based on the actuation intensity for each of the subset.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of groupings is predetermined.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subset of the set of actuators includes at least two actuators.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the actuation intensity is further determined based on the location, wherein the location is arranged between the two actuators.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation mode is determined based on a temporal parameter associated with receipt of the audio input.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the operation mode is further determined based on a set of user preferences.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the actuation intensity is further determined based on a stored floor value and a stored ceiling value associated with the 1st grouping.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the actuation intensity is determined based on a difference between the stored floor value and the stored ceiling value.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising updating the ceiling value based on the highest maximum energy.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein in an event that the highest maximum energy is less than the ceiling value, updating the ceiling value comprises decreasing the ceiling value.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the ceiling value is decreased by a predetermined value.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the operation mode comprises selecting from a set of operation modes, wherein the set of operation modes comprises a daytime mode, a nighttime mode, and a music mode.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of thresholds comprises at least one of:

a sensitivity threshold;

a baseline actuator noise threshold; and

a running energy mean for the set of groupings.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the sensitivity threshold is determined based on a user input.

15. A method for providing stimulation to a user at a haptic stimulation device having a set of actuators, the method comprising:

receiving an audio input;

determining an operation mode of the haptic stimulation device;

determining a set of parameters based on the audio input, wherein the set of parameters comprises:

a set of frequencies; and

a set of energies;

organizing the set of parameters into a set of groupings based on the set of frequencies;

for each of the set of groupings:

determining a maximum energy associated with the grouping;

comparing the maximum energy with a set of thresholds; and

determining a highest maximum energy based on the maximum energy associated with each grouping and the comparison of each maximum energy with the set of thresholds;

determining a location for the stimulation based on the highest maximum energy;

prescribing a subset of the set of actuators based on the location;

determining an actuation intensity for each of the subset of actuators based on the highest maximum energy;

actuating the subset of actuators based on the actuation intensity for each of the subset.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein determining the operation mode comprises selecting from a set of operation modes, wherein the set of operation modes comprises a daytime mode, a nighttime mode, and a music mode.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the operation mode is the nighttime mode.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the set of thresholds comprises a tonality threshold.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein, for each of the set of groupings, in an event that a measured tonality of the audio input does not meet the tonality threshold, the maximum energy is eliminated from a set of maximum energies, wherein the set of maximum energies comprises the maximum energy associated with each of the set of groupings.