Vibration Authoring Tool Using Music Notation Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vibrotactile authoring tools are limited in providing intuitive recognition and are time-consuming for authoring music or audio icons, lacking flexibility in representing three-dimensional information on frequencies, amplitudes, and rhythms.
Innovation Solution
A vibration authoring tool with a graphic user interface that includes a scale defining unit, clef defining unit, score authoring unit, and reproducing unit, allowing for intuitive design and representation of vibration patterns by controlling frequencies, amplitudes, and waveforms, and storing results in an XML file format.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional sound forming programs are used for vibrotactile authoring, then flexibility in forming waveforms is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent copies the familiar music score notation system and applies it to vibrotactile pattern authoring. By representing vibration patterns using musical notes, rests, and notation elements that musicians already understand, the system makes vibration authoring intuitive and easy to operate while maintaining flexibility through the mathematical mapping between musical parameters and vibration parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal authoring interface that serves multiple functions: it can represent both traditional music scores and vibrotactile patterns using the same notation system. This multi-functional approach allows users to author vibration patterns with the same ease as writing music, while the underlying system flexibly translates the notation into various vibration waveform configurations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional sound forming programs are used for vibrotactile authoring, then flexibility in forming waveforms is improved, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By copying the well-established music notation system, the patent enables rapid authoring of vibration patterns. Musicians and users familiar with musical notation can immediately begin creating vibrotactile patterns without learning new complex interfaces, significantly increasing productivity while the system maintains waveform flexibility through parameter mapping.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements parameter changes by mapping musical notation parameters (pitch, duration, dynamics) to vibration parameters (frequency, timing, amplitude). This parameter transformation allows rapid authoring through familiar musical concepts while maintaining the flexibility to generate diverse vibration waveforms through the configurable parameter relationships.
3Ease of operation
If music score form is used for vibration authoring, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer that translates between the simple music score notation interface and the complex vibration parameter configuration. This intermediary translation layer shields users from the underlying complexity of waveform generation, actuator control, and parameter mapping, providing ease of operation while managing device complexity through automated transformation processes.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a vibration authoring tool, a vibration authoring method, and a storage medium recorded with the same. To this end, the present invention provides a vibration authoring tool, including: a scale defining unit that defines a scale by controlling the frequencies, amplitudes, and waveforms of the vibration; a clef defining unit that defines a clef by corresponding each staff line of a vibration score to a portion of the frequencies and corresponding head numbers of each note to a portion of the amplitudes; a score authoring unit that authors a score by inputting symbols including notes, rests, and dynamics in the vibration score; and a reproducing unit that reproduces the score authored through the score authoring unit.