Haptic Script Generation for Synchronized Content Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for presenting haptic stimuli, such as vibrations, lack a comprehensive method for generating and reproducing control data synchronized with content reproduction in environments like movie theaters or theme parks, limiting the enhancement of realistic sensations.
Innovation Solution
An information processor and method that generate a script associating time information with control commands for haptic presentation devices, including position and type information, to produce haptic control signals for synchronized stimulation, utilizing a 4D system to enhance the haptic experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a system for generating and reproducing control data of haptic presentation devices is constructed to perform control in synchronization with reproduction content, then the realistic sensation is amplified, but the system complexity increases due to the need for synchronized control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by generating the script file in advance that contains pre-associated time information and control commands. This pre-prepared script eliminates the need for complex real-time synchronization processing during content reproduction, as the control sequences are already mapped to specific time points in the reproduction content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a script file as an intermediary component that mediates between the reproduction content and the haptic presentation device control. This script file serves as a bridge, containing the association between time information and control commands, thereby simplifying the synchronization mechanism without requiring direct complex interaction between the content player and haptic device controller.
2Manufacturing precision
If control commands include detailed position information and haptic stimulus type information for each haptic stimulus unit, then the haptic presentation precision is improved, but the data processing burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-generating and storing the script file that contains all necessary control commands with position information and haptic stimulus type information associated with time points before content reproduction. This eliminates the need for real-time calculation and processing of these detailed parameters during playback, significantly reducing the data processing burden while maintaining high haptic presentation precision.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a system (1) that performs generation and reproduction of control data of a haptic presentation device assuming that a control is performed in synchronization with a reproduction content, and there is provided an information processor (10), which makes it possible to achieve reduction in a burden of processing and improvement in convenience, including a control unit (104) that generates a script in which time information on the reproduction content and a control command of the haptic presentation device are associated with each other, in which the control command includes position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in the haptic presentation device, and haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus.