284 results about "Haptic sensation" patented technology

The present disclosure relates to a can opening and sealing tool with a body portion comprising a lower section and an upper section designed to engage securely with a can's pull-tab. The upper section includes a bar with an indented central portion that provides haptic feedback to confirm successful tab engagement and prevent accidental disengagement. An arm portion extends radially from a connecting portion and is configured to assist a user in pivoting the tool around the can's rivet when the tool is fully engaged with the can. The arm portion's edge interacts with the can’s top annular edge to maintain a flush seal.

Inconclusive and inconsistent results from existing haptic testing systems, e.g. for trackpads, which include rigidly mounted resistive load cells and accelerometers, prevent accurate results, especially in a high-volume production context. The use of a rigidly mounted sensor is unsuitable because a trackpad will generally be softer than the actuation system, whereby, when the haptic event is fired, the vast majority of the energy will be lost in the trackpad, while the sensor remains almost stationary. Accordingly, an improved test probe for a haptic device configured for mounting on a robotic arm, comprises: a contact tip configured for contacting the haptic device; a sensor configured for measuring a threshold force of the piezoelectric actuator device, and an haptic characteristic, e.g. acceleration, of a resulting haptic response thereof at a same time and a same location; and a compliant element configured for enabling the sensor to move relative to the haptic device.

This invention discloses a haptic actuator and associated haptic systems. The haptic actuator comprises a ‎miniaturized electromechanical structure that, when interfacing with a skin of a subject through an energy-recovering mechanism, supports bistable, self-sensing modes of deformation, for delivering dynamic and / or static stimuli of indentation, torsion, and / or vibration to the skin.

An input signal may be converted to a first PWM signal and a second PWM signal at a PWM controller circuit. The first PWM signal and the second signal output may drive a driver circuit. The driver circuit may receive a high voltage power supply from a boost converter or other power supply circuit. The driver circuit may include a high side device and a low side device. The output of the driver circuit may drive a filter circuit that includes a filter capacitor, an inductor, and a haptic actuator. The haptic actuator may generate a desired haptic response at the haptic actuator.

A fan unit includes: a fan capable of blowing air from an outer peripheral portion; and a cover part capable of opening a blowing part, which is a part of the outer peripheral part of the fan, the cover part changing the opening range of the blowing part. An air control method is executed by a cover part capable of opening a blow-out part, the blow-out part being a part of an outer peripheral part of a fan capable of blowing out air from the outer peripheral part, the cover part changing an opening range of the blow-out part. The air control method includes changing an opening range of the blow-out portion by changing a range covering an outer peripheral portion of the fan.

A haptic feedback method and a haptic feedback device. The haptic feedback method is applied to the haptic feedback device including a touch display panel and an actuator assembly, and the haptic feedback method includes: acquiring touch information and display information on the touch display panel, the touch information includes a touch position of a touch object on the touch display panel, the display information includes information of a display object displayed on the touch display panel, and the touch position is within the display object; and generating a driving signal according to the touch information, the display information, and surface characteristic parameters of the display object, the driving signal output to the actuator assembly, so that the actuator assembly drives the touch display panel to vibrate and form haptic feedback on the surface of the touch display panel.

A haptic feedback method, a haptic feedback apparatus, and a haptic feedback device, relating to the technical field of haptic feedback. The haptic feedback method is applied to a haptic feedback substrate. The haptic feedback substrate comprises a touch substrate and an actuator connected to the touch substrate. The touch substrate comprises an interaction area. The interaction area comprises a plurality of interaction points separated from each other. The haptic feedback method comprises: acquiring a touch position of a touch body on a touch substrate; if the touch position is located in an interaction area, determining a target interaction point from among a plurality of interaction points on the basis of a positional relationship between the touch position and the interaction points; and on the basis of the correspondence between the interaction points and first driving signals, providing to an actuator a first driving signal corresponding to the target interaction point, so that the actuator drives the touch substrate to vibrate, wherein there is a time interval between the first driving signals corresponding to different interaction points.

Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a haptics panel and a haptics apparatus. By means of rationally designing structural parameters of a supporting structure, the resonance frequency of a haptics substrate is within 100 Hz-300 Hz, such that the haptics effect of the haptics panel based on vibration excited by an exciter in a low-frequency range can be effectively improved by means of using the resonance frequency of the haptics substrate; moreover, by means of rationally designing the structural parameters of the supporting structure and also preventing the supporting structure from buckling under the action of static and dynamic loads, the haptics panel can meet the requirements of a haptic design for a vibration amplitude and an acceleration under the condition that the haptics panel meets a rigid design.

This invention regarding touch therapy has been around for centuries, and continues to evolve into various models and styles. This therapy has been practiced by various groups and is believed to reduce muscle pain, relieve stress, and provide relaxation. One touch therapy that is part of sensory integration is deep touch pressure therapy. By applying deep pressure to the body of an individual experiencing anxiety disorders, the body will feel embraced and the user will feel calmer. Current deep touch pressure therapy devices still have limitations in mobility and flexibility, so further design studies are needed to support the invention of flexible therapy devices. This invention is a vest-shaped therapy device that uses a strap tightening mechanism to provide a pressure sensation to the user.The simple shape of the vest can be a solution to the need for a therapy tool that is easy to carry and apply.

An image processing device is provided that edits moving image data with which haptics data for eliciting haptic sensation is associated. The image processing apparatus detects whether or not first and second haptics data respectively associated with first and second sections that are adjacent in a time direction in edited moving image data vary discontinuously. If it is detected that the first and second haptics data vary discontinuously, the first and second haptics data are modified so as to suppress the discontinuous variation.

Aspects of the present invention relate to a vehicle haptic system (100) for vibrating at least one foot (205) of an occupant (2000) of a vehicle (1000), the vehicle haptic system (100) comprising at least one foot haptic module (3000) for positioning in a foot pedal or floor portion (105) of the vehicle (1000), the at least one foot haptic module (3000) comprising at least one haptic transducer (320), the at least one haptic transducer (320) is configured to receive the haptic signal (410) and to generate vibrations (425) in accordance with the haptic signal (410).

A wind pressure type of haptic firefighting nozzle interface that is interworked with virtual reality (VR) content for virtual firefighting training is provided. The wind pressure type of haptic firefighting nozzle interface includes: a flow controller for adjusting a spraying intensity of water sprayed on the VR content; a stream shaper for adjusting a spray shape according to a radiation angle of the water sprayed on the VR content; and at least one first haptic device for providing haptic feedback corresponding to the spraying intensity and the spraying shape determined according to control through the flow controller and the stream shaper using wind pressure.

The application discloses a kind of haptic temperature synergic sensor comprising flexible substrate material and preparation method thereof.Sensor includes flexible substrate, arrayed haptic sensing unit and multilayer heterostructure temperature-sensitive layer, multilayer heterostructure temperature-sensitive layer is alternately stacked by pressure-sensitive material layer, thermosensitive material layer and conductive material layer and so on Heterogeneous materials can realize the synergic perception of temperature and pressure.By reasonably designing the material properties and interface structure of each layer, the response performance of the sensor to multiple physical quantities is improved.

A machine learning (ML) model is used to automatically generate haptics signals to actuate a haptics generator in a computer game controller. The haptics signal is generated based on audio from the game input to the ML model. Current controller operation and other parameters also may be input to the M model to modify the haptics signal. Category importance and frequency may be applied to the loss function of the ML model to further refine haptics generation. Post-filtering may be used to reduce false positives. Game genre may be used to reduce the number of candidate haptics signals for generation.

The application provides a multi-modal dynamic tactile encryption method, a tactile encryption skin, a system and an application, which comprises the following steps: a dynamic tactile force acts on a tactile encryption epidermis, image data of an initial state of the tactile encryption epidermis and an image data generated in a dynamic tactile action process are collected through a tactile encryption subcutaneous tissue; based on the image data, a position cell tensor, a velocity tensor and a depth tensor generated before and after the encryption epidermis granular layer is subjected to a tactile stimulation are obtained; based on the position cell tensor, the velocity tensor and the depth tensor, a double-modal dynamic tactile feature or a multi-modal dynamic tactile feature based on a dynamic force-velocity-depth coupling is constructed; and the double-modal dynamic tactile feature or the multi-modal dynamic tactile feature is subjected to multi-level standard encryption based on a self-defined initial key to obtain a final dynamic multi-modal tactile process encryption result. The application has high specificity, which includes spatial and temporal features; the encryption process is dynamic, contains the whole process of biological tactile action, and has high reliability.

The invention relates to an operating device (1) for operating a component of a motor vehicle, comprising an operating element (2), a housing (4) and several vibroacoustic elements (3), wherein the operating element (2) and the vibroacoustic elements (3) are arranged on the housing (4), wherein the operating element (2) is configured to receive a user input and, triggered by the receipt of the user input, to output a user signal, wherein the operating element (2) is configured to output haptic feedback upon receipt of the user input, wherein the haptic feedback generates sound, and wherein the vibroacoustic elements (3) are configured to change a frequency of the sound.

The present application relates to the technical field of haptic feedback. Disclosed are a haptic feedback synchronization method for an interconnected device system, and an interconnected device system. The method comprises: a receiving device acquires vibration-associated information of a requesting device corresponding to a user and an operation, and a transfer function of the requesting device; in response to the user's operation and on the basis of a transfer function of the receiving device, the transfer function of the requesting device and the vibration-associated information of the requesting device corresponding to the user and the operation, the receiving device generates a vibration excitation signal; and the receiving device vibrates on the basis of the vibration excitation signal. By means of using said method provided by the present disclosure, when an operation is performed on the receiving device, the vibration effect generated on the receiving device is same as or similar to the vibration effect generated on the requesting device corresponding to the same operation, thereby improving the operational experience of users in interconnected-device scenarios.

Various embodiments are directed to a haptic system for promoting identification of an alignment of a pair of footwear articles relative to at least one foot of a user, the haptic system comprising: a pair of footwear articles comprising a first footwear article and a second footwear article structured to be worn on a first foot and a second foot, respectively, of a user, one or more of the first and second footwear articles comprising: a footwear article body and a collar provided along a top portion of the footwear article and comprising an inner collar portion extending along an inner body portion of the footwear article body and an outer collar portion extending along an outer body portion of the footwear article body; and wherein an inner collar portion configuration of the inner collar portion is different than an outer collar portion configuration of the outer collar portion.

An immersive scene description is defined by a data structure containing information representing triggers and haptic effects. When a trigger occurs while the user is interacting with the immersive scene, parameters for the haptic effect are retrieved from the data structure and provided to the haptic actuator for rendering the haptic effect. These parameters determine at least the modality and perception of the haptic effect, and can determine at least some of the body parts to which the haptic effect should be applied. The modality relates to the type of haptic effect, such as temperature, vibration, pressure, or acceleration. Perception determines the haptic signal to be applied to the corresponding haptic actuator. This signal is generated or retrieved from a file or other device.

The invention relates to a phakic intraocular lens (1), comprising: - an optic (2) with an optical axis (100) that extends perpendicularly to a horizontal axis (110) and a vertical axis (120) of the intraocular lens (1) in plan view, wherein the horizontal axis (110) and vertical axis (120) are located in a tangential plane (130) to an optic upper side (3), wherein the optic (2) has a diameter (D) in plan view, - a haptic (10) connected to the optic (2) and consisting only of a first haptic body (11) and a second haptic body (16), wherein a vertical distance (a5) along the vertical axis (120) from the optical axis (100) to a first centre of mass (S1) of the first haptic body (11) is smaller than a vertical distance (a6) along the vertical axis (120) from the optical axis (100) to a second centre of mass (S2) of the second haptic body (16).

Provides are a haptic feedback substrate and apparatus. The haptic feedback substrate includes: a base substrate; a first electrode layer, the first electrode layer is electrically connected to a ground voltage input end; a piezoelectric film layer at one side of the first electrode layer facing away from the base substrate; a second electrode layer at one side of the piezoelectric film layer facing away from the base substrate, the second electrode layer is divided into vibration zones, each vibration zone includes at least one second electrode, second electrodes in each vibration zone are electrically connected to the same drive voltage input end, second electrodes in different vibration zones are electrically connected to different drive voltage input ends; the first and second electrode layers form an alternating electric field, the piezoelectric film layer vibrates under the action of the alternating electric field and drive the base substrate to resonate.

An illustrative force determination system may be configured to detect an amount of deformation of a deformable 3D model of a scene that occurs when an anatomical object located in the scene is deformed and determine, based on the amount of deformation of the deformable 3D model, a force value representative of a force that caused the deformation of the anatomical object. The force determination system may further be configured to provide haptic feedback to a user based on the force value.

A system and method of eliciting, sustaining, and experiencing pseudo-haptic / social touch in the real world where the touch initiator interacts with specific touch points onto the receiver's avatar in

Disclosed are a haptics assembly and a haptics apparatus. The haptics assembly comprises: a flexible circuit board, which comprises a plurality of pad units arranged in an array, and a plurality of signal lines, wherein the plurality of pad units are divided into a plurality of pad unit rows extending in a row direction, and a plurality of pad unit columns extending in a column direction, the row direction intersecting the column direction, each pad unit is electrically connected to at least two signal lines, and at least one of the pad unit rows and the pad unit columns is electrically connected to the same signal line; and a plurality of piezoelectric actuators, which are electrically connected to the pad units.

A haptic feedback method and a haptic feedback device. The haptic feedback method is applied to the haptic feedback device including a touch display panel and an actuator assembly, and the haptic feedback method includes: acquiring touch information and display information on the touch display panel, the touch information includes a touch position of a touch object on the touch display panel, the display information includes information of a display object displayed on the touch display panel, and the touch position is within the display object; and generating a driving signal according to the touch information, the display information, and surface characteristic parameters of the display object, the driving signal output to the actuator assembly, so that the actuator assembly drives the touch display panel to vibrate and form haptic feedback on the surface of the touch display panel.

The invention discloses a tactile driving circuit, tactile driving equipment and a tactile driving method, and relates to the technical field of tactile feedback. The tactile driving circuit is applied to a tactile feedback substrate, the tactile feedback substrate comprises a touch substrate and an actuator connected with the touch substrate, the actuator is provided with a first capacitor, and the tactile driving circuit comprises an amplifying circuit connected with a driving signal end and used for amplifying a driving signal input by the driving signal end; the input end of the matching circuit is connected with the output end of the amplifying circuit, the input end of the matching circuit is further used for being connected with a first pole of the first capacitor, the output end of the matching circuit is used for being connected with a second pole of the first capacitor, the matching circuit at least comprises an inductor, and the inductor is used for forming an LC oscillating circuit with the first capacitor. The LC oscillating circuit can generate an oscillating signal under the excitation of the output signal of the amplifying circuit, and the oscillating signal is used for driving the actuator to vibrate.

An aerosol supply device (100) comprising: a housing (110) comprising an opening (111) for receiving a consumable (250), the housing being arranged, in use, to contain the consumable; a haptic communication element (120) arranged in the housing; a detector (130) arranged to detect the consumable passing through the opening of the housing and to provide a signal to the haptic communication element, where the haptic communication element is arranged to provide a haptic indication to the user in response to the signal from the detector relating to movement of the consumable into and out of the opening of the aerosol supply device.

Methods and systems for capturing images of an object such as a foot with a handheld mobile device capable of performing depth scanning including providing guidance to the operator of the scanner in the form of one or more of visual, haptic and auditory feedback so as to capture sufficient images of the object that a virtual three-dimensional representation of the object can be generated.