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Granted Patent B2
US 11,922,797 · App. 17/254,566 · Granted Mar 5, 2024

Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, decoding method, and program

Inventors: Hirofumi Takeda (Kanagawa, JP); Shiro Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP); Shuichiro Nishigori (Tokyo, JP); Jun Matsumoto (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
G08B6/00
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Patent No.
US 11,922,797
App. No.
17/254,566
Granted
Mar 5, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

To reduce a data amount required for tactile presentation while enabling driving of different types of tactile presentation devices corresponding to different physical amounts. An encoding device according to the present technology is provided with an encoding unit that generates coded data by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts. This makes it possible to obtain the tactile signals representing desired physical amounts within a range in which interconversion may be performed while compressing the information amount by utilizing the interconversion property between the physical amounts.

Claims (39)

1. An encoding device comprising:

encoding circuitry configured to generate coded data by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts,

wherein the coded data includes a first tactile signal of the plurality of tactile signals representing a specific physical amount, and error information indicating a conversion error when the first tactile signal is converted into a tactile signal representing another physical amount, the encoding circuitry being configured to:

convert the first tactile signal by integration or differentiation of the first tactile signal to provide a converted signal; and

calculate a difference between a second tactile signal of the plurality of tactile signals and the converted signal to provide the error information.

2. The encoding device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the coded data includes identification information for identifying the physical amount represented by the first tactile signal.

3. An encoding method executed by encoding circuitry, the method comprising:

generating coded data by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts, the generating coded data comprising:

converting the first tactile signal by integration or differentiation of the first tactile signal to provide a converted signal; and

calculating a difference between a second tactile signal of the plurality of tactile signals and the converted signal to provide the error information.

4. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by encoding circuitry, perform an encoding method comprising:

generating coded data by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts, the generating coded data including:

converting the first tactile signal by integration or differentiation of the first tactile signal to provide a converted signal; and

calculating a difference between a second tactile signal of the plurality of tactile signals and the converted signal to provide the error information.

5. A decoding device comprising:

decoding circuitry configured to decode coded data generated by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts,

wherein the coded data includes a first tactile signal of the plurality of tactile signals representing a specific physical amount and error information indicating a conversion error when the first tactile signal is converted into a tactile signal representing another physical amount, the decoding circuitry being configured to:

convert the first tactile signal by integration or differentiation to provide a converted tactile signal; and

correct the converted tactile signal based on the error information to provide the tactile signal representing the other physical amount.

6. The decoding device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the coded data includes identification information for identifying the physical amount represented by the first tactile signal, and

the decoding circuitry is configured to perform the decoding on a basis of the identification information.

7. The decoding device according to claim 6 ,

wherein, in a case where the physical amount of the first tactile signal specified on a basis of the identification information coincides with a predetermined physical amount, the decoding circuitry is configured to output the first tactile signal.

8. The decoding device according to claim 6 ,

wherein, in a case where the physical amount of the first tactile signal specified on a basis of the identification information does not coincide with a predetermined physical amount, the decoding circuitry is configured to convert the first tactile signal into a signal representing the predetermined physical amount, and to correct the converted signal on a basis of the error information.

9. The decoding device according to claim 5 ,

wherein the decoding circuitry is configured to adjust amplitude of the tactile signal obtained by the decoding.

10. A decoding method comprising:

decoding coded data generated by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts,

wherein the coded data includes a first tactile signal of the plurality of tactile signals representing a specific physical amount and error information indicating a conversion error when the first tactile signal is converted into a tactile signal representing another physical amount, the decoding coded data including:

converting the first tactile signal by integration or differentiation to provide a converted tactile signal; and

correcting the converted tactile signal based on the error information to provide the tactile signal representing the other physical amount.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by decoding circuitry, perform a decoding method comprising:

decoding coded data generated by performing encoding to compress an information amount by utilizing an interconversion property between physical amounts on a plurality of tactile signals representing different physical amounts,

wherein the coded data includes a first tactile signal of the plurality of tactile signals representing a specific physical amount and error information indicating a conversion error when the first tactile signal is converted into a tactile signal representing another physical amount, the decoding coded data including:

converting the first tactile signal by integration or differentiation to provide a converted tactile signal; and

correcting the converted tactile signal based on the error information to provide the tactile signal representing the other physical amount.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2021
From: TAKEDA, HIROFUMI; SUZUKI, SHIRO; NISHIGORI, SHUICHIRO; MATSUMOTO, JUN
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055849/0982 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-122963 · Jun 28, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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