31 results about "Sensation" patented technology

Methods and systems are disclosed to facilitate creating the sensation of vibrotactile movement on the body of a user. Vibratory motors are used to generate a haptic language for music or other stimuli that is integrated into wearable technology. The disclosed system in certain embodiments enables the creation of a family of devices that allow people such as those with hearing impairments to experience sounds such as music or other input to the system. For example, a “sound vest” or other wearable array transforms musical input to haptic signals so that users can experience their favorite music in a unique way, and can also recognize auditory or other cues in the user's real or virtual reality environment and convey this information to the user using haptic signals.

A method for inducing a sensation of motion in a subject, comprising defining a vibrational stimulation pattern for a subject; generating a set of electrical signals corresponding to the vibrational stimulation pattern; and transducing the set of electrical signals into a vibrations corresponding to the set of electrical signals with a plurality of electromechanical transducers, wherein the vibrations are adapted to induce the sensation of motion in the subject.

To properly estimate sensations of respective subjects in a case where there are individual differences among the subjects or there are differences in environments surrounding the subjects.SOLUTION: A sensation estimation device includes a storage unit that stores reference sensation information which is sensation information recalled in response to a perception, and a processing unit that estimates corresponding sensation information which is sensation information corresponding to reference sensation information concerning a subject on the basis of the reference sensation information stored in the storage unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

When presenting tactile sensations to 3D models, directly using high-resolution shape information increases the communication and computational load, and using pseudo-random numbers alone results in a monotonous sensation. Therefore, the challenge is to achieve natural and diverse tactile sensations with low load. [Solution] This invention is a method for achieving tactile feedback that combines smoothness and natural variation by generating a structured and smooth basic unevenness pattern using a pseudorandom number generator and adding a non-deterministic fluctuation component using a quantum random number generator. The contributions of both are controlled by a weighting function that varies over time depending on the user's operation speed, direction, contact duration, etc., and the tactile unevenness height corresponding to the coordinates on the 3D model is calculated to drive the tactile reproduction device. The tactile reproduction device can be either a device that outputs physical stimuli or an interface device that provides stimulating signals to the nerves and brain, enabling realistic and diverse tactile presentation with low load.

To allow a user to feel a sense when holding or moving an object with strength matched with a situation according to the restriction of an actual operation.SOLUTION: The system includes a display device that presents a video of a virtual space including an object to a user, a measurement device that measures a motion of a hand of the user, a vibration presentation device that presents a vibration to the hand of the user, an audio device that presents a sound to the user, and a control device. The control device controls a plurality of parameters among a visual parameter of a video of the object, a tactile parameter of vibration of the vibration presentation device, and an auditory parameter of sound of the audio device in movement of the object in the virtual space on the basis of an attribute and / or a state of the object.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

This invention provides a behavioral device for detecting hallucination-like sensations in mice. The device includes a metal frame with a front panel on its front side, a sound panel and a nose contact panel on each side of the front panel, a top plate on the top of the metal frame, a back plate on the back of the water inlet frame, a partition inside the metal frame, and a waste tray placed below the partition inside the metal frame. The behavioral device for detecting hallucination-like sensations in mice provided by this invention has the advantages of being easy to use and capable of detecting whether a mouse is experiencing hallucinations.

The present disclosure relates to a tinnitus suppression device, method, system and computer program. In some aspects, a tinnitus suppression device comprises a receiver module configured to receive sound signals, a processing module operably connected to a memory and to the receiver module, and a neurostimulation module operably connected to the processing module. In some aspects, the processing module and the neurostimulation module may be configured to determine a received sound signal that corresponds to a template stored in the memory, that is above a preconfigured threshold, preferably above a preconfigured threshold which is specific for the individual, or both. A multi-channel neurostimulation signal encoding the determined sound signal may be generated and applied to a neurostimulation device of the individual that may be configured to directly stimulate afferent sensory neurons of the central nervous system of the individual and thereby to elicit, for each channel of the neurostimulation signal, one or more non-auditory, preferably somatosensory, perceptions in a cortex area of the individual.

The invention relates to a sensory capsule (10), comprising a shell (20) and a transducer (30) configured to convert a sound signal into mechanical vibrations, characterized in that the shell (20) has dimensions suitable for being hand-held and delimits a hollow interior space (21) in which the transducer (30) is arranged.

To provide a sensory transmission system and a sensory transmission method that can appropriately protect personal information of a subject.SOLUTION: A sensory transfer system includes: a first device that detects, when perceived by the first subject, brain activation information of a first subject; an estimation device that estimates, on the basis of the detected brain activation information of the first subject, recollected sensory information that a second subject different from the first subject recalls in response to a perception and encodes the recollected sensory information using the brain activation information of the first subject; and a second device that decodes the encoded recalled sensory information and provides a stimulus to the second subject so as to recall the decoded recalled sensory information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

An apparatus includes at least one first microphone configured to be worn on or within a body of a recipient and configured to generate a microphone signal indicative of ambient sound from an environment of the recipient. The device also includes first circuitry configured to generate a stimulation signal in response to the microphone signal, the stimulation signal indicative of the ambient sound and configured to be received by a body of the recipient to evoke a hearing perception of the recipient. The apparatus also includes second circuitry configured to generate first data indicative of a first comparison of responses of the at least one first microphone and at least one second microphone to the ambient sound at a first time. The second circuitry is further configured to generate second data indicative of a second comparison of responses of the at least one first microphone and the at least one second microphone to the ambient sound at a second time. The second time is after the first time. The second circuitry is further configured to generate a performance evaluation of at least one aspect of the device in response to a third comparison of the first data to the second data.

This technology provides the ability to estimate the feel of hitting a golf ball. [Solution] An information processing device 130 according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a feature quantity acquisition unit 1303 that acquires feature quantity F based on data of the sound of impact of a golf ball to be estimated for feel, and a feel estimation unit 1305 that estimates the feel of the golf ball to be estimated based on correlation information representing the correlation between the sensory evaluation of the feel by a tester when a test ball is hit and the feature quantity F acquired from the sound of impact at that time, and the feature quantity F acquired by the feature quantity acquisition unit 1303. The feature quantity acquisition unit 1303 acquires feature quantity F based on average sound pressure P1, which is the average sound pressure of the sound of impact of the golf ball to be estimated in the frequency range FA1, and average sound pressure P2, which is the average sound pressure of the sound of impact of the golf ball to be estimated in the frequency range FA2, which includes frequencies lower than the frequency range FA1.

The application belongs to the technical field of brain emotion regulation, and particularly relates to an audio-visual environment emotion personalized evaluation method and device based on range fusion decision, which comprises collecting and preprocessing brain emotion information by taking visual and auditory single sensory channel, visual multiple factor synergy and audio-visual cross-sensory channel as electroencephalogram stimulation; a range fusion decision model is established and trained, the model is used to obtain the influence degree of different audio-visual environment factors on different emotions, and the environment is adjusted according to the evaluation result to realize personalized emotion regulation. The application designs combinations of different audio-visual environment factors, obtains related electroencephalogram data, calculates the weight of different audio-visual environment factors of each experimental object, evaluates the influence of different audio-visual environments on emotions, and according to different emotion regulation requirements, corresponding audio-visual environment design is carried out, and finally, personalized self-adaptive adjustment of the environment is realized, which can better reflect real life situations and has higher feasibility and applicability.

The present disclosure relates to systems and method, and electrode arrays for transcranial stimulation, such as transcranial vestibular stimulation. Systems and methods of the present disclosure include electrode arrays capable of independent vestibular stimulation, which generate movement sensations in a subject. Independent vestibular stimulation signals can be combined to create sensations of movement on all axes. Independent vestibular stimulation signals can be electrical signals or ultrasonic signals, and can be modulated to affect and control human physiological processes. Vestibular stimulation signals can be provided using individually addressable microelectrodes, which can be a plurality of ion-rich electrode cells.

The utility model discloses a disturbance of consciousness detecting and waking-up system fusing personalized multi-mode biological feedback stimulation, which comprises a detecting and evaluating module and a waking-up rehabilitation module, and an audio-visual body sensation stimulation generating unit is arranged in the detecting and evaluating module. One side of the audio-visual body sense stimulation generation unit is electrically connected with an audio-visual body sense stimulation unit; an evoked electroencephalogram acquisition unit is arranged in the detection and evaluation module, and the other end of the evoked electroencephalogram acquisition unit is electrically connected with an ERP-MMN extraction unit. By fusing multi-mode individuation and biofeedback thoughts to implement stimulation, the defects that existing disturbance of consciousness detection and evaluation are poor in accuracy and reliability, single in stimulation and awakening means and poor in dispersion effect can be overcome, intelligent integration of detection and evaluation and awakening rehabilitation is achieved, and development and application of a new generation of neural rehabilitation technology are powerfully promoted.

Methods and systems are disclosed to facilitate creating the sensation of vibrotactile movement on the body of a user. Vibratory motors are used to generate a haptic language for music or other stimuli that is integrated into wearable technology. The disclosed system in certain embodiments enables the creation of a family of devices that allow people such as those with hearing impairments to experience sounds such as music or other input to the system. For example, a “sound vest” or other wearable array transforms musical input to haptic signals so that users can experience their favorite music in a unique way, and can also recognize auditory or other cues in the user's real or virtual reality environment and convey this information to the user using haptic signals.

A method includes projecting in a digital space an original object. The original object is transformed into a collection of disaggregated symbols displayed in the digital space. The collection of disaggregated symbols is aggregated into an aggregated object that has qualities or features in common with the original object. The aggregated object is presented in the digital space with auditory stimuli. All operations are performed without the use of any visual or auditory language.

A Smart Electro-Adaptive Reactive Airbag System ("SEARAS") provides for smart augmentation wearables and may incorporate any of a variety of wearable articles that provide for enhanced mobility, sensory, and / or stability augmentation for the wearer. The proprioceptive inputs and outputs may be tactile, neurological, or other stimuli perceptible, e.g., seen, felt, heard, smelt, tasted, or otherwise apprehendable or appreciable by the senses and / or mind of the wearer, including possible adjustments for the physicality of the wearer.

The present invention discloses an emotional tactile regulation system and method based on multi-modal fusion, including a tactile optimal parameter adjustment module, a tactile generation module, an audiovisual generation module, a multi-physiological signal acquisition module, a multi-sensory signal acquisition module, and a multi-modal fusion emotion recognition module. The system collects various physiological signals of users, fuses the multi-physiological signal features with audio and tactile modal features, combines advanced data processing and analysis techniques, accurately identifies the current emotional state of users in real time, automatically finds tactile parameters by means of optimization theory, and actively regulates the emotional state by applying tactile stimuli to users; it overcomes the limitations of traditional methods such as subjective scales, effectively reduces the influence of unstable physiological signals on the emotion recognition results, and significantly improves the accuracy of emotion detection in the emotional tactile regulation system. The emotional tactile regulation system has broad application potential in the fields of personal emotion management, medical rehabilitation, audio-visual entertainment, etc.

A method for analyzing a user's reaction to a stimulus is described which includes providing a user stimulus and a stimulation parameter through a sensory stimulator, measuring a biological response and acquiring a biosignal which indicates a neurophysiological reaction provides neurophysiological reaction data which generates sensory metadata indicative of the user's response to the corresponding stimulus. The sensory metadata is archived to obtain a plurality of sensory metadata associated with the user. Each piece of stored sensory metadata is processed according to input information, generating an output information including a reaction index to the stimulus as a function of the input information, and modifying a stimulation parameter according to the reaction index.

System for multimodal recording of human emotions, comprising an EEG-like cap, at least one sensor for sensory impressions, and an integrated AI unit for human evaluation.

Provided is a holder for an adhesive roller that enables sufficient cleaning of work clothes regardless of the individual sensations of workers. 【Solution means】The holder 20 for the adhesive roller includes an adhesive roller holding portion 21 that rotatably holds the adhesive roller 10, a gripping portion 22 connected to the adhesive roller holding portion 21, and a notification means 30 attached to the gripping portion 22. The notification means 30 generates sound, light, or vibration until a certain time has elapsed since a predetermined operation.

The invention belongs to the field of freshness perception evaluation, and provides a method for identifying a delicate flavor induced electroencephalogram signal in a taste perception link, which comprises the following steps of: acquiring taste electroencephalogram data induced under the stimulation of delicate flavor by using an electroencephalogram signal acquisition system, establishing a delicate flavor electroencephalogram data set by using the acquired data, cleaning the original data by adopting an independent component analysis algorithm in sequence, including filtering, electrooculogram removal, artifact removal and re-reference, calculating frequency (Hz) and energy spectrum density, and performing vectorization and regularization arrangement on 0-13Hz signals according to a brain region; and then a minority class oversampling technology is used to amplify a data set and divide a training set and a test set, an integrated model is constructed for signal classification, and the finally trained model is used for delicate flavor identification. According to the integrated model method provided by the invention, the accuracy and the stability of the delicate flavor electroencephalogram recognition model are remarkably improved, and the delicate flavor recognition is effectively realized.

To provide a technology for presenting a sense corresponding to the physical characteristics of an operation part.SOLUTION: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing device including an operation unit, an operation detection unit that detects an operation of the operation unit and generates an operation signal, a signal generation unit that generates a sensory presentation signal based on the operation signal, and a sensory presentation unit that presents a sensory presentation to an operator based on the sensory presentation signal, wherein the information processing device includes an adjustment unit that adjusts at least one of the operation signal, the sensory presentation signal, and the sensory presentation based on a mass and a size of the operation unit as physical characteristics, and the operation unit is a rotary operation unit. The adjustment unit adjusts at least one of the operation signal, the sense presentation signal, and the sense presentation when the operation of rotating the rotary operation unit is performed, based on the mass and the radius, the diameter, or the length of the maximum portion, using the mass and the radius, the diameter, or the length of the maximum portion of the operation unit as the physical characteristics.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 45

The invention relates to a method for performing a session of stimulation of five senses A, B, C, D and E of a human user and to a system for performing the method. The session of stimulation comprises determined stimuli of the five senses and a determined stimulation time for each stimulus of the determined stimuli; the method comprises producing each stimulus of the determined stimuli at the respective stimulation time for the respective stimulus by actuating stimulators of the five senses; in first portions of a period of the session a simultaneous stimulation of A, B, C, D and E is produced; and in each portion of the period of the session between two consecutive first portions of the session: at least one of A, B, C and D is stimulated, and E is not simultaneously stimulated with the stimulated at least one of A, B, C and D.

Exemplary systems and methods are disclosed that can measure the level of consciousness and unconsciousness of a person or animal using devices sensitive to optical wave interference or divergence / diffraction measurements. The exemplary systems and methods can be utilized to decipher and map the brain activity patterns that give rise to conscious experiences into units of measurement.

Examples disclosed herein are relevant to monitoring and treating sensory conditions affecting an individual. Sensors and intelligence integrated within a sensory prosthesis (e.g., an auditory prosthesis) can automatically obtain objective data regarding the ability of one or more of an individual's senses during day-to-day activities. A treatment action can be taken based on the objective data. Further disclosed herein are techniques relating to reducing the gathering of irrelevant sensory input and automatically transmitting relevant data to a caregiver device.

The present disclosure relates to automatically monitoring a subject's slow wave response to sensory stimuli during a sleep session. Upon detecting deep NREM sleep, sensory stimuli can be delivered to the subject. The sensory stimuli can be auditory, tactile, visual, or other stimuli. The system delivers stimuli to the subject in the form of blocks of stimuli separated from each other by an intra-block interval. The blocks are separated from each other by an inter-block stimulus. The system compares the subject's stimulated slow wave activity to the subject's unstimulated slow wave activity. The system can update the stimulation parameters based on the comparison and deliver a subsequent block of stimuli. Once the comparison indicates that the stimulated slow wave activity is significantly different from the unstimulated slow wave activity, the system can apply a continuous fixed sensory stimulus to the user according to the most recent stimulation parameters.

1. Name of the designed product: feeling checker (neurology). 2. Use of the designed product: used for feeling check of patients. 3. Design points of the designed product: in shape. 4. Picture or photo showing the design points: perspective view.