Haptic communication system using cutaneous actuators for simulation of continuous human touch
摘要
說明書
In one embodiment, the low frequency 1131 and high frequency 1133 haptic outputs are generated by a single cutaneous actuator of the cutaneous actuators 1104, but with a linear offset between the two haptic outputs, which may cause a difference between the phase of the two different haptic outputs. Thus, the haptic output of the single cutaneous actuator may appear to resemble a summation of the high frequency 1133 and low frequency 1131 haptic outputs, but with an offset between the low frequency 1131 and high frequency 1133 haptic outputs (e.g., 10% of the duration or frequency). Despite having combined the two haptic outputs, because the user's skin senses the high and low frequency haptic outputs using different cells, there may be little ambiguity when the user senses the haptic output and thus the user may be able to easily distinguish the two different frequencies in the haptic output. The different frequencies of haptic output may represent different phonemes in the input words 1106. For example, high frequency haptic output may represent digraphs (e.g., “// or zh) while the low frequency haptic output may represent certain consonants.
