Method and apparatus for a sensory floor
OwnerWinship Dowell, Jesse Whitaker McRaeinventors
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Abstract
The present invention provides an active sensory floor that provides sensations to non-auditory senses of persons at an event via one or both of movement and vibrations of the sensory floor. Sensory output of the floor may be controlled via a mixer or other controller during a performance, pre-recorded or provided based upon an input, such as music playing. Additional sensory stimulation, such as, for example, visual stimulation may also be synchronized with non-auditory stimulation.
Claims20
A sensory dance floor capable of providing a non-auditory stimulation in synchronization with an audio stream, the sensory dance floor comprising:
- a) multiple disparate surface tiles;
- b) one or more vibration actuators in mechanical communication with the multiple disparate surface tiles;
- c) a smart mixer board in logical communication with the vibration actuators;
- d) a vibration actuator controller in communication with a vibration unit storage device storing code executable on command capable of causing the vibration actuator controller to:
- i) operate the smart mixer board to control the vibration actuators;
- ii) receive the audio stream;
- iii) synchronize the sensory dance floor with the audio stream by generating a vibration actuator control signal based upon an audio component of the received audio stream;
- iv) transmit the vibration actuator control signal to the vibration actuators;
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- v) generate the non-auditory stimulation through the sensory dance floor via operation of the vibration actuators in response to a user viewing a crowd reaction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.