Haptic communication system using cutaneous actuators for simulation of continuous human touch
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The syllable-haptic signal converter 1402 is similar to the word-haptic signal converter 1107, but converts the input words 1404 into component syllables, and converts these syllables into sequences of actuator signals, instead of converting into phonemes. The syllable-haptic signal converter 1402 includes a syllabic splitter 1406, a syllable-haptic signal converter 1408 and a syllable-haptic signal database 1410. In one embodiment, the syllable-haptic signal converter 1402 may be a component in a signal generator, such as signal generator 800.
The syllabic splitter 1406 converts the input words 1404 into component syllables. The output of the syllabic splitter 1406 may be a set of symbols representing the syllables of the language of the input words 1404. For example, Japanese may be represented by 46 syllables, as indicated by the hiragana writing system. The syllabic splitter 1406 may convert words to syllables based on a syllable database which indicates the syllables that correspond to the letters or other elements in the written form of the input words 1404.
The syllable-haptic signal converter 1408 may be similar to the phoneme-haptic signal converter 1109, but converts the syllables of the input words 1404 into sequences of actuator signals, instead of the phonemes of the input words. For each syllable received from the syllabic splitter 1406, the syllable-haptic signal converter 1408 accesses the syllable-haptic signal database 1410 to determine the corresponding sequence of actuator signals 1412 to output. In one embodiment, each syllable has a single corresponding sequence of actuator signals 1412.
