Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and firmness alterable module
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsMiyu IWAFUNE, Masao KONDO, Junichi SHIMIZU
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires sensor information detected by a sensor; an estimation unit that estimates, based on the sensor information acquired by the acquisition unit, a contact mode of an object with respect to a target of which a firmness of a surface is alterable; and a determination unit that determines whether to alter the firmness of the surface of the target according to the contact mode of the object estimated by the estimation unit.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit that acquires sensor information detected by a sensor;
- an estimation unit that estimates, based on the sensor information acquired by the acquisition unit, a contact mode of an object with respect to a target of which a firmness of a surface is alterable;
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- a determination unit that determines whether to alter the firmness of the surface of the target according to the contact mode of the object estimated by the estimation unit.
An information processing method comprising:
- acquiring sensor information detected by a sensor;
- estimating, based on the acquired sensor information, a contact mode of an object with respect to a target of which a firmness of a surface is alterable;
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- determining whether to alter the firmness of the surface of the target according to the estimated contact mode of the object.
A firmness alterable module constituting at least a part of a surface of a target, the firmness alterable module comprising:
- a sheet-like coupling portion that is disposed along the surface and is flexible in a direction intersecting the surface;
- a block portion having a plurality of blocks disposed side by side along a back surface and coupled to the back surface, the back surface being a surface opposite to the surface of the coupling portion;
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- a softness/firmness controller that is disposed along one surface of each of the plurality of blocks with the block portion interposed between the softness/firmness controller and the coupling portion, the softness/firmness controller being capable of altering firmness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.