Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090135164 | POINTING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING HAPTIC FEEDBACK, AND HAPTIC INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - Provided are a pointing apparatus capable of providing haptic feedback, and a haptic interaction system and method using the same. The pointing apparatus includes a wireless communication unit, a controller, and a haptic stimulator. The wireless communication unit receives an event including haptic output information through wireless communication with the outside. The controller generates a control signal for reproducing a haptic pattern corresponding to the haptic output information. The haptic stimulator reproduces the haptic pattern by means of the control signal. Thus, it is possible to increase the performance and usability of a user interface of a user terminal including a touch screen. | 05-28-2009 |
20090146948 | Apparatus for Providing Sensing Information - The invention relates to an apparatus for providing sensing information which includes a surface-sensing information combiner for collecting tactile sensing information on a surface of an object and accompanying sensing information attendant on the tactile sensing information of the surface of the object to produce surface-sensing information or edit the produced surface-sensing information. The apparatus also includes a surface-sensing information board for providing an environment for the surface-sensing information of the object to allow a user to perceive the surface-sensing information of the object. The apparatus further includes a surface-sensing information reproducer for reproducing the tactile sensing information and the accompanying sensing information of the object to be sensed by the user. | 06-11-2009 |
20090254271 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing a safe and accurate navigation service using a tactual sense and an olfactory sense are provided. In the method, tactual information created according to navigation information displayed on a navigation map composed by a terminal based on collected navigation information is received. Then, a plurality of pins are controlled to make vertical movements according to a directional stimulation and frequency amplitude variation obtained from the received tactual sense information. | 10-08-2009 |
20090319328 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT USING SENSORY INFORMATION - In order to manage personal information, a schedule information collector to receive items relating to a schedule of a user's and to distinguish the received items to generate first schedule data; a schedule data processor to add sensory information corresponding to the respective items of the first schedule data to generate second schedule data; and a schedule notifier to notify the sensory information of the second schedule data, in which time when the second schedule data is notified to the user is arrived, to the user. | 12-24-2009 |
20100085168 | TACTILE STIMULATION DEVICE AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - There are provided a tactile stimulation device that is suitable for portable apparatuses by meeting all requirements such as miniaturization, low power consumption, low noises, prompt response time and sufficient physical force, and an apparatus using the same. The tactile stimulation device may be useful to provide a sufficient level of physical stimuli by arranging a plurality of linear ultrasonic actuators to move linearly in a vertical direction to any of skin contact surfaces and stimulating the skin in a vertical direction under the control of the linear movement of the linear ultrasonic actuators. | 04-08-2010 |
20100270089 | COMPACT TACTILE INPUT AND OUTPUT APPARATUS - An apparatus for transmitting information in the form of a tactile sense is provided. Particularly, a tactile-sense input/output motor and a tactile-sense input/output apparatus using the tactile-sense input/output motor are provided. A tactile-sense input/output housing having a plurality of tactile-sense input/output motors, each of which performs a linear motion according to an ultrasonic electrical signal to transmit a tactile sense to a contact surface and senses a pressure of the contact surface to output a tactile-sense input signal is used for portable apparatuses, wrist wearable devices, rings, or other various apparatuses so as to transmit information through a tactile sense. | 10-28-2010 |
20100274774 | DIGITAL DATA TAGGING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TAGGING AND SEARCH SERVICE USING SENSORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION - Provided are a digital data tagging apparatus for generating sensory and environmental information as a tag and endowing digital data with the sensory and environmental information that is automatically extracted using sensory sensor data and environmental sensor data, all of which are sensed by humans through their sensory organs, and a system and method for providing a tagging and search service using sensory and environmental information. The digital data tagging apparatus, and the system and method for providing a tagging and search service may be useful to enable users to search and use digital data more effectively and abundantly through the later use of the sensory and environmental information by collectively recognizing sensory and environmental information and automatically or manually endowing digital data with the recognized sensory and environmental information as a tag, wherein the sensory and environmental information are sensed by humans through their sensory sensors such as an olfactory sensor, a taste sensor and a tactile sensor; an environmental sensor such as temperature, humidity, illumination intensity and wind speed sensors, etc., as well as a camera or a mic. | 10-28-2010 |
20110032088 | METHOD OF ENCODING HAPTIC INFORMATION ON IMAGE, METHOD OF DECODING HAPTIC INFORMATION FROM IMAGE AND APPARATUS OF PROCESSING HAPTIC INFORMATION FOR THE SAME - Disclosed is a technology of encoding haptic information on images or decoding haptic information from images. The method of encoding the haptic information on the images according to the present invention includes: generating haptic information; generating encoding target data by using the haptic information and header information associated with the haptic information; and generating an encoded image by encoding the encoding target data by using a least significant bit (LSB) of byte data of each of the original image pixels. As a result, the present invention can simply encode/decode the haptic information while maintaining an original image format. | 02-10-2011 |
20110199321 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SELF-MORPHABLE HAPTIC AND VISUAL INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF - A self-morphable haptic and visual information providing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to provide haptic information through a physical shape variation of a display screen; and a haptic element driving unit configured to generate a driving signal for providing the haptic information. | 08-18-2011 |
20120146952 | OPTICAL TOUCH PANEL - Provided is an optical touch panel. The optical touch panel includes: an optical waveguide including a core delivering an optical signal and a clad surrounding the core; a light generator delivering the optical signal into the optical waveguide; and a light detector measuring the optical signal passing through the optical waveguide, wherein the optical waveguide includes a sensing part having a sensing surface and a passing part having a non-sensing surface; the core includes a sensing core portion in the sensing part and a passing core portion in the passing part; and a distance between the sensing surface and a top surface of the sensing core portion is shorter than that between the non-sensing surface and a top surface of the passing core portion. | 06-14-2012 |
20120146954 | OPTICAL TOUCH SCREEN PANEL - Disclosed is an optical touch screen panel including: a light source unit to generate light parallel with a horizontal axis or a vertical axis of a touch screen; a first beam deflector to increase the width of the light parallel with the horizontal axis to be matched with the width of the horizontal-axis of the touch screen, or increase the width of the parallel light parallel with the vertical axis to be matched with the width of the vertical-axis of the touch screen in order to reflect the parallel light having the increased width; a second beam deflector to reduce the width of the parallel light incident from the first beam deflector in order to reflect the parallel light having the reduced width; and a photodetector unit to sense a touched position of an object on the horizontal-axis or the vertical-axis of the touch screen. | 06-14-2012 |
20120154133 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK CASE FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed is a haptic feedback case for electronic equipment, including: a main body configured to accommodate the electronic equipment; a communication unit configured to receive haptic generation information from the electronic equipment; a filmy type actuator configured to generate haptic sensations; and a control unit configured to operate the film type actuator according to the haptic generation information input from the communication unit. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154134 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VISUAL-HAPTIC INFORMATION, AND BUTTON HAVING THE SAME - A button for providing visual-haptic information includes a visual-haptic variable button that adaptively provides various types of visual-haptic information according to input of information to an electronic apparatus. The visual-haptic variable button includes a visual information output part that adaptively changes various types of button icons according to manipulation and touch of the visual-haptic variable button for the input of information, thereby outputting visual information, and a haptic information output part that adaptively changes various types of sense of button manipulation and sense of button touch according to the manipulation and touch of the visual-haptic variable button, thereby outputting haptic information. At least one visual-haptic variable button is provided in the electronic apparatus for the input of information. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154286 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VISUAL-HAPTIC INFORMATION, AND TERMINAL HAVING THE SAME - A terminal for providing visual-haptic information includes a visual-haptic keypad that displays and provides the visual-haptic information. The visual-haptic keypad includes: a button frame of a plurality of buttons provided in the visual-haptic keypad; a visual display layer positioned under the button frame in a vertical direction on a basis of the button frame; and a haptic display layer positioned under the visual display layer in the vertical direction on the basis of the button frame. The button frame and the visual display layer are fixedly bonded to boundary portions of the plurality of buttons. | 06-21-2012 |
20120306790 | FILM TYPE APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC FEEDBACK AND TOUCH SCREEN INCLUDING THE SAME - A film type apparatus for providing haptic feedback and a touch screen including the same are provided. In the film type apparatus, a plurality of unit haptic feedback providing apparatuses are arranged in an array. Each of the unit haptic feedback providing apparatuses includes a lower electrode, a lower charge capacitive member disposed on the lower electrode, an upper charge capacitive member disposed apart from the lower charge capacitive member, a spacer disposed between the lower and upper charge capacitive members to separate the lower and upper charge capacitive members, an upper electrode disposed on the upper charge capacitive member, and a charge supply unit connected to the lower and upper electrodes to supply electric charge. | 12-06-2012 |
20120318074 | APPARATUS FOR SENSING PRESSURE USING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for sensing pressure using an optical waveguide sensor. The apparatus for sensing pressure using an optical waveguide sensor, includes: a light source radiating light; an optical waveguide panel emitting some of the radiated light outside through a plurality of light transmitting regions previously formed, and changing an amount of totally reflected light according to pressure applied to at least one of the plurality of light transmitting regions; a detector detecting the amount of light; and an analyzer determining intensity and a location of the pressure according to the detected amount of light. | 12-20-2012 |
20130088339 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CASE FOR PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an electronic device case for providing tactile feedback and an operation method thereof. The electronic device case for providing tactile feedback, includes: a communication interface unit receiving a control signal from an electronic device according to an operation of the electronic device; an actuator driver generating an electric signal corresponding to preset tactile pattern data according to the received control signal; and one or more film type actuators provided to contact the actuator driver and varying physical properties according to the control signal. | 04-11-2013 |
20130182455 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a display device including a plurality of channels for forming a specific pattern, in which each of the channels includes: a light source module comprising one or more light sources for generating optical signals having different wavelengths; a driving module for controlling on/off or strength of the optical signal generated in the light source module; an optical waveguide for transferring the optical signal generated in the light source module to an outside without a loss of the optical signal; and a scattering pattern for scattering the optical signal transferred through the optical waveguide and displaying the scattered optical signal to the outside. | 07-18-2013 |
20130194237 | PRESSURE SENSOR AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING PRESSURE AND TOUCH SCREEN INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a film or a panel that may measure pressure while interacting with an electronic device. A pressure sensor according to the present invention includes: a light source unit to generate light; an optical waveguide to transfer, to a light receiving unit, the light that is generated by the light source unit; and the light receiving unit to receive the light that is transferred through the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide includes a pressure sensing unit to adjust the quantity of light that is transferred through the optical waveguide based on a pressure. The light receiving unit senses the pressure based on the change in the quantity of light that is generated by the light source unit and is transferred through the optical waveguide. | 08-01-2013 |
20130223098 | SURFACE LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - The present disclosure relates to a surface light emitting apparatus including: a light source bar including a light source for generating an optical signal; at least one optical distributor for dividing the optical signal generated in the light source into a plurality of optical signals; a light guide plate for confining the plurality of optical signals divided by the optical distributor in an inside thereof and transfer the optical signals; and a scattering pattern formed on a surface of the light guide plate and for emitting a light by the optical signal transferred through the light guide plate. | 08-29-2013 |
20130249859 | HAPTIC ACTUATING TOUCH SCREEN - Provided is a touch screen for generating a haptic sense that may minimize a structure added for haptic generation by simultaneously employing a single electrode layer that constitutes an existing touch panel as an electrode layer for transferring the haptic sense. A touch screen for generating a haptic sense according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a touch panel including at least one substrate, each formed with at least one electrode, and an additional electrode to generate the haptic sense on a portion touched on the touch panel using an electrostatic force that occurs between the additional electrode and a predetermined electrode among the at least one electrode. | 09-26-2013 |
20140015777 | FILM HAPTIC SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE OPERATION POINTS - Provided is a thin film type actuator having multi-operation points, capable of various feels of touch or sounds. The film type actuator includes an upper plate and a lower plate, formed of a single plate. Between the upper plate and the lower plate, pairs of electrode parts capable of attracting one another via an electrostatic force. Since each of the pairs of electrode parts functions as an operation point and the upper plate and the lower plate are formed of the single plate, movements of the respective operation points in such a way that a new physical movement different from an original individual movement is generated to generate a haptic feel or a sound. It is possible to generate various haptic feels or sounds by modulating and combining amplitudes and frequencies of the respective operation points. | 01-16-2014 |
20140085865 | MICROLENS ARRAY FILM AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a microlens array film and a display device including the same. The microlens array film includes a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode facing each other and a flexible polymer layer placed between the first and the second transparent electrodes. Lenses may be freely deformed by regulating voltages applied to the first and second transparent electrodes. | 03-27-2014 |
20140111480 | TOUCH PANEL PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK IN RESPONSE TO VARIABLE PRESSURE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A touch panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a pressure detection unit including a light-source unit configured to generate an optical signal, an optical waveguide configured to transfer the optical signal, a sensing unit contacting with the optical waveguide to receive the optical signal according to an intensity of pressure applied externally, and a light-receiving unit configured to receive the optical signal transferred through the optical waveguide from the sensing unit; and an actuator contacting with the pressure detection unit to cause a deformation of a material according to the pressure intensity, wherein the actuator provides a tactile feedback through a vibration according to the pressure intensity. | 04-24-2014 |
20140292501 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC EFFECT USING SOUND EFFECT - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a haptic effect using a sound effect. The apparatus includes an audio filter storage unit, an acquisition unit, an analysis unit, a message configuration unit, and a haptic output unit. The audio filter storage unit stores a plurality of adaptive audio filters. The acquisition unit obtains sound effects output by an electronic device in response to an application or a user input event. The analysis unit analyzes the frequency components of each of the sound effects. The message configuration unit detects at least one of the adaptive audio filters from the audio filter storage unit, and generates a haptic output message, corresponding to the sound effect. The haptic output unit outputs a haptic effect based on the haptic output message. The adaptive audio filter dynamically varies depending on the application or the user input event. | 10-02-2014 |
20150036474 | SHAPE-VARIABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL READ/WRITE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical read/write device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a lens portion configured to irradiate light emitted from a light source to an optical recording medium, and the lens portion includes: a flexible shape-variable lens; and an electrode portion provided on the shape-variable lens. The shape of the shape-variable lens can be changed when voltage is applied to the electrode. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043094 | VARIABLE-SHAPE OPTICAL ELEMENT - Provided is a variable-shape optical element including a variable-shape lens, an actuator connected to the variable-shape lens, and a support configured to support the actuator. Here, the actuator may vary in shape according to an electrical signal. | 02-12-2015 |
20150062719 | SHAPE-VARIABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT - Disclosed herein is a shape-variable optical element including: a shape-variable lens; a first electrode unit configured to be connected to the shape-variable lens; a second electrode unit configured to face the first electrode unit; and a deformation part configured to be disposed between the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit. | 03-05-2015 |