Tactile processing device

A tactile processor comprising:

• a tactile display section for making a feeler who touches the display get a feel by producing force;
• a physical measuring section for measuring a physical property value of a given object under test;
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• a physical-psychological transformation section for transforming the physical property value of the object under test measured into a tactile feature quantity by reference to information that has been collected in advance to correlate with each other physical measured values of an object of learning and a feature quantity representing a feel that a person has gotten by touching the object of learning,
• wherein the object under test is represented by a feature quantity value, and
• a tactile feature quantity is generated based on a weight of the physical property of the object under test and the weight is selected based on the status of contact, from a group of weights and each weight included in the group of weights is associated with a physical property value and feature quantity value,
• wherein the tactile display section includes:
• a psychological-physical transformation section for transforming the tactile feature quantity into a control signal following a predefined transformation rule;
• a drive section for applying the force to the feeler's hand in accordance with the control signal;
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• a hand movement measuring section for measuring a feature quantity representing the hand movement of the feeler who touches the tactile display section, and
• wherein the physical measuring section measures the physical property value of the object under test by the measured feature quantity representing the feeler's hand movement.

A tactile processor comprising:

• a physical measuring section for measuring a physical property value of an object under test using a physical sensor;
• a physical sensor movement instructing section for instructing how to move the physical sensor in measuring the physical property value of the object under test;
• a physical-psychological transformation section for transforming the physical property value measured into a tactile feature quantity by reference to information that has been collected in advance to correlate with each other a physical property value of an object of learning, a feature quantity representing a hand movement of a subject under test who has touched the object of learning, and a feature quantity representing a feel that the subject has gotten by touching the object so that types and weights of the physical property value to refer to are changed according to the feature quantity representing the hand movement, wherein the weights are selected, based on the status of contact, from a group of weights, and each weight included in the group of weights is associated with a physical property value and feature quantity value;
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• an output section for outputting the tactile feature quantity determined as the quantity of a feel that the subject gets when touching the object under test.