Haptic feedback system
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsWooseup Youm, Hye Jin Kim, YuLim Min, Yun-Jeong Kim, Hanbit Jin, Chan-Hwa Hong
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Abstract
Provided is a haptic waveform storage system including a sensor configured to measure a target object to generate a sensing signal including tactile texture information, a waveform extraction unit configured to extract a basic frequency and an envelope from the sensing signal and generate haptic waveform information including information about the basic frequency and the envelope, and a library storage unit configured to store the haptic waveform information.
Claims18
A haptic waveform storage system comprising:
- a sensor configured to measure a target object to generate a sensing signal including tactile texture information;
- a waveform extraction unit configured to extract a basic frequency and an envelope from the sensing signal and generate haptic waveform information including information about the basic frequency and the envelope;
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- a library storage unit configured to store the haptic waveform information,
- wherein the waveform extraction unit is configured to set a reciprocal number of the basic frequency as a basic period and extract a point having highest intensity from the sensing signal every basic period to extract the envelope.
A method for operating a haptic waveform storage system, the method comprising:
- generating a sensing signal including tactile texture information by measuring a target object;
- calculating a basic frequency based on a rising time of the sensing signal;
- extracting an envelope by setting a basic period corresponding to a reciprocal number of the basic frequency and by extracting a point having highest intensity from the sensing signal every basic period;
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- storing haptic waveform information including information about the basic frequency and the envelope in a library storage unit.
A haptic feedback system comprising:
- a haptic waveform storage system configured to generate haptic waveform information from a target object and store the haptic waveform information in a library storage unit;
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- a haptic waveform generation system configured to generate a tactile texture waveform based on the haptic waveform information stored in the library storage unit,
- wherein the haptic waveform information includes information about a basic frequency calculated from a sensing signal measured from the target object and an envelope extracted from the sensing signal,
- wherein the haptic waveform storage system is configured to calculate the basic frequency based on a rising time of the sensing signal and generate the haptic waveform information including information about the basic frequency and the envelope, and
- wherein the haptic waveform generation system is configured to generate a rendered waveform signal by generating a sinewave having the same frequency as the basic frequency and combining the sinewave with the envelope, and generate the tactile texture waveform based on the rendered waveform signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.