Haptic communication system using cutaneous actuators for simulation of continuous human touch
摘要
說明書
The input words 1106 are words in any spoken language, such as English. Thus, as the input words 1106 can be spoken, the input words 1106 may be converted into phonemes, which may, for example, be represented by the International Phonetics Alphabet (IPA). For example, the word “l(fā)anguage” may be translated to the sequence of phonemes “|‘l?ηgwid3|.”
The word-haptic signal converter 1107 is a deterministic finite state machine which accepts the input words 1106 and outputs a unique sequence of output actuator signals 1111 for every sequence of non-homonymic input words 1106. If two sequence of input words 1106 are homonyms of each other, then the word-haptic signal converter 1107 would generate the same sequence of actuator signals 1111 for both sequences. The word-haptic signal converter 1107 includes a word-phoneme converter 1108, a phoneme-haptic signal converter 1109 and a phoneme-haptic signal database 1110. In one embodiment, the word-phoneme converter 1108 may be a component in a signal generator, such as signal generator 800.
