Tactile wearable
OwnerPeter IDESTAM-ALMQUISTinventor
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Abstract
A tactile wearable device in a communication system, the tactile wearable device comprising: at least two switches arranged to receive first tactile information from user in a sequence, at least two tactile actuators arranged to provide second tactile information to a user in a sequence, and wireless communication means arranged to transmit information to and from a wireless device.
Claims10
A tactile wearable device a communication system, the tactile wearable device comprising:
- at least two switches arranged to receive first tactile information by means of tapping patterns from a user in a sequence, the first tactile information comprising different types of signals for each switch,
- at least two tactile actuators arranged to provide second tactile information to a user in a sequence,
- a first mapping table arranged to convert the received first tactile information into first internal information and to convert second internal information into second tactile information, and
- wherein the tactile wearable device is arranged to transmit via a wireless communication means the first internal information to a wireless device and to receive the second internal information from a wireless device.
The wireless communication system according to claim 5, wherein the first or the second textual information is presented in a SMS, e-mail or as a push notification.
The wireless communication system according to claim 5, wherein the first or the second mapping table is set-up by pre-determined rules.
The wireless communication system according to claim 5, wherein the first or the second mapping table is set-up by a user.
A method for exchanging information using a tactile wearable device in a communication system the method comprising:
- receiving tactile information as different types of signals from a user by means of tapping patterns in a sequence by using at least two switches of the tactile wearable device;
- retrieving, from a first mapping table of the tactile wearable device, the corresponding translation of the tactual information as a first internal information, transmitting the first internal information from the tactile wearable device to a wireless device via wireless communication means,
- retrieving, from a second mapping table of the wireless device, the corresponding translation of the first internal information as a first textual information
- receiving a second textual information from the second wireless device, or by producing the second textual information in the wireless device;
- retrieving, from a second mapping table (of the wireless device, the corresponding translation of the second textual information as a second internal information, communicating the second internal information from the wireless device to the tactile wearable device via wireless communication means,
- retrieving, from a first mapping table, the corresponding translation of the second internal information to the second tactile information, transmitting the received second tactile information through the at least two tactile actuators to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.