Haptic and visual communication system for the hearing impaired
AssigneePeter Stevens
InventorPeter Stevens
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Abstract
A communication method for hearing impaired communication comprising: providing a speech training device to a hearing impaired user, the speech training device configured to teach the hearing impaired user how to determine non-speech sounds. The method further includes providing a haptic output device to a hearing impaired user where the haptic output device is configured to be relasably coupled to the hearing impaired user. The haptic output device receives, a sound input signal comprising a non-speech sound and provides the haptic output signal to an actuator which is in electrical communication with the haptic output device. The actuator actuates in response to the haptic output signal and provides a haptic sensation to the hearing impaired user.
Claims5
A haptic output device for hearing impaired communication comprising:
- one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive a sound as a sound input;
- determine a physical property of the sound input;
- generate a haptic output signal based on the physical property of the sound input;
- and
- actuate an actuator, the actuator configured to receive the haptic output signal and provide haptic sensations based on the haptic output signal to a user wearing the haptic output device,
- wherein the physical property of the sound input includes a location of a source of the sound, and
- wherein the haptic output signal includes at least one of a radial distance, an azimuth angle, or a polar angle of the source of the sound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.