Remote Haptic Signal Conversion for Sensory Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for transmitting tactile sensations over communication networks, such as those used in virtual reality applications, face challenges in synchronizing sensory inputs like touch, force, and position across different locations, leading to potential user confusion and errors due to latency and mismatched sensory perceptions.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising detection and conversion means that utilize touch sensors, piezo elements, and communication networks to transmit and synchronize tactile, acoustic, and visual signals in real-time, allowing for precise control and feedback across distant locations, with correction mechanisms to align force and position coordinates, ensuring harmonized sensory experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If tactile sensations are transmitted over communication networks to enable remote interaction, then the ability to transmit manual skills and tactile feedback is improved, but latency and desynchronization between different sensory inputs occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-synchronizes tactile, acoustic, and visual signals before transmission by converting all sensory inputs into a common time reference frame at the detection location. This preliminary time alignment ensures that when signals are transmitted over the network and converted at the control location, they arrive synchronized despite network latency, preventing the time loss problem.
2Ease of operation
If tactile feedback is transmitted remotely over networks, then remote work capability is improved, but sensory desynchronization and user confusion occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a feedback mechanism where tactile signals detected at the remote location are converted and transmitted back to the control location in real-time. This closed-loop feedback ensures that the operator receives accurate tactile feedback corresponding to their actions, maintaining reliability of sensory information despite remote transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a conversion means as an intermediary that translates tactile signals from the detection location into forms suitable for transmission and reproduction at the control location. This intermediary conversion process ensures accurate representation of tactile sensations, preventing sensory desynchronization and user confusion.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sensory inputs are transmitted simultaneously, then immersive virtual reality experience is improved, but timing misalignment and cybersickness occur
Solution Approach 1:
Before transmitting multiple sensory inputs, the system performs preliminary conversion of all tactile, acoustic, and visual signals into a unified time reference frame at the detection location. This pre-synchronization ensures that when signals are transmitted and converted at the control location, they maintain precise timing alignment, preventing cybersickness caused by sensory mismatch.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system enables synchronized and accurate transmission of tactile sensations, reducing latency and errors, thereby enhancing the realism and effectiveness of remote work and interaction in virtual environments by ensuring simultaneous and harmonized sensory inputs.
Implementation Method 1
the detection means is a touch rod, a touch device, part of a wearable, a piezo element, a pressure sensor
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a system comprising a detection means, a conversion means and a control means, wherein the detection means is configured to detect a property at a detection location with at least one part, wherein the control means is configured to produce an output corresponding to the property at a control location, and wherein the conversion means are configured to convert the property detected at the detection location into the corresponding output at the control location.