EP1516241A2 - Dispositif pour coder, transmettre et/ou recevoir des signaux - Google Patents

Dispositif pour coder, transmettre et/ou recevoir des signaux

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EP1516241A2
EP1516241A2 EP03707884A EP03707884A EP1516241A2 EP 1516241 A2 EP1516241 A2 EP 1516241A2 EP 03707884 A EP03707884 A EP 03707884A EP 03707884 A EP03707884 A EP 03707884A EP 1516241 A2 EP1516241 A2 EP 1516241A2
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pressure
touch
signals
sensors
input
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Franz Witthalm
Martin Ruckensteiner
Christian Fischer
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Accelate Business Launch and Expansion GmbH
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Accelate Business Launch and Expansion GmbH
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
    • G09B21/00—Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute
    • G09B21/001—Teaching or communicating with blind persons
    • G09B21/003—Teaching or communicating with blind persons using tactile presentation of the information, e.g. Braille displays

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  • the invention relates to a device for coding, transmitting and / or receiving non-verbal or emotional signals.
  • Telecommunication devices are usually designed in such a way that they serve to transmit information, the information generally comprising verbal communication or else text communication. Texts can be transmitted in appropriate coding via telecommunications devices so that they can be converted into readable verbal information by the recipient.
  • telecommunication devices in which people who are physically separate from each other make contact through targeted actions, namely dialing the other person's number, it has already become known to transmit telemetry data and possibly biometric data via communication devices in order to be used in central processing units to develop appropriate analyzes, diagnoses or treatment proposals.
  • the invention now aims at non-verbal communication, such as caressing or non-verbal communication of feelings, such as anger or anger regardless of actual circumstances, such as, for example, biometric data, in order in this way to make a specific person-specific message to a physically separate person.
  • the invention further aims to make such a facility as small as possible and simple, so that with a minimum of conventions or codes to be defined in advance, a corresponding transmission of non-verbal communication with a minimum of misunderstandings succeeds.
  • the device essentially consists in the non-verbal or emotional signals being picked up or measured by an input unit which contains at least one sensor for detecting a touch, a pressure or a deformation and via a communication network, such as radio network are transmitted, the receiver having an output unit which converts the transmitted signals into visual, acoustic and / or mechanically perceptible signals.
  • the input unit now contains at least one sensor for detecting a touch, pressure or deformation
  • non-verbal messages such as stroking, pressing or pinching can be entered in a simple manner without tedious coding and transmitted after coding via a corresponding communication network.
  • the receiver now has an output unit which converts the transmitted signals into visual, acoustic and / or mechanically perceptible signals, such as vibrating, the pressure exerted first or the stroking movement carried out first can be achieved via the sensor of the input unit visually, acoustically or to make it perceptible mechanically, d. H . in other words, to refrain from verbalization and to reduce or restrict communication not only on the transmitter side but also on the receiver side to non-verbal components.
  • the design according to the invention is further developed in such a way that the input device contains touch sensors, pressure sensors, optical sensors, shake sensors and / or buttons.
  • touch sensors or pressure sensors are known in a particularly compact design, for example as sensors integrated on a chip, all of these structural units of the input device being able to be accommodated in the smallest space and having a large number of non-verbal signals generated.
  • the design is advantageously made such that the input device can be touched or has a pressure-sensitive surface to which a sensor array is assigned, a plurality of touch or pressure points being separately detectable.
  • the input unit can be designed, for example, in the manner of a track pad used in portable computers, so that stroking movements are also recorded by the sensor and can be reproduced in a suitable manner by the output unit.
  • the output can take place, for example, in the form of a light traveling in accordance with the stroking movement.
  • the input device advantageously has an evaluation circuit with which the contact pressure exerted on the touch or pressure-sensitive surface can be detected separately.
  • the conversion of different touch pressures can take place, for example, by varying the light colors, the light intensity or the volume of an acoustic signal.
  • the touch or pressure-sensitive surface is transparent or translucent, so that, for example, display devices such as lights or LEDs with different colors can be arranged under the touch surface.
  • the input unit can be controlled simultaneously as an output unit and either the touch or pressure-sensitive surface can act as an input unit or the display device arranged under this transparent surface can act as an output unit, with simultaneous bidirectional communication between two communication partners, simultaneous operation as an off and on Input unit is possible.
  • the design is advantageously made such that the output device with display devices for displaying different colors, with heating surfaces and / or vibrator generators.
  • the display device is preferably further developed such that it is used to display different colors and / or different ones Luminous intensities are formed, the color gradient and / or the luminous intensity being changeable as a function of decoded signals from the touch, pressure and / or deformation sensors, a change in the contact point on the touch-sensitive surface preferably changing the color or changing the touch pressure a change in light intensity causes.
  • the display device has a plurality of separately controllable areas which are designed to display different colors and are activated each time a correspondingly assigned area of the touch-sensitive surface is touched.
  • the input and output units have areas which are assigned to one another and which can be arranged congruently in a simple manner, for example when the display device is arranged below a transparent contact surface.
  • the design according to the invention is preferably such that the input device has a deformable cushion, which is preferably under a flexible cushion or elastically deformable contact surface contains at least one optical sensor, in particular photo resistor, and a plurality of optically breaking filler bodies, in particular balls, the position of which can be changed by pressure on the contact surface.
  • balls for example glass balls
  • kneading, tweaking, pressing or even caressing the touch surface enables the packing elements to be shifted accordingly, so that when using optical sensors, different signals are generated depending on the external lighting situation can.
  • the contact surface is appropriately covered by the hand, for example in high ambient light, this leads to a correspondingly much lower measured value of the photocell or the optical sensor sensors can be added, can be varied accordingly.
  • the design is advantageously made such that the deformable cushion has light sources, for example LEDs, under a flexible or elastically deformable contact surface.
  • the light emitted by the integrated light sources will give rise to different signals from the optical sensors by correspondingly dislodging the packing.
  • the extent of this additional or auxiliary lighting relative to the ambient light can be brought into the appropriate balance on the input device using a potentiometer, the existence of such light sources, for example LEDs, in particular when different light sources with different emitted light colors are involved, is not only advantageous for a corresponding input device, but also for a corresponding display device for the output unit.
  • the input unit can thus be constructed essentially the same as the output unit, with in the case of pressure sensors it only being necessary to ensure that a corresponding movement stroke or another visual representation can be displayed, which directly indicates the pressure movements applied on the transmitter side.
  • Such pressure movements can not only be visualized and perceived mechanically in the form of axial strokes, but can of course also be visualized on the level of a display, for example by displaying differently colored contour lines, which clearly represent the pressure point at which pressure was originally applied.
  • Realistic reproduction is preferably achieved if the output device is designed as a cushion, the shape and / or color gradient of which on the surface can be changed as a function of decoded signals from pressure or deformation sensors.
  • the input unit and the output unit can be constructed essentially with the same components.
  • the touch surface can in turn be transparent or translucent, which in particular when LEDs with different colors are used, also offers the possibility of visualizing color moods accordingly, provided that this device is at the same time part of the output unit or the display unit, for which advantage Formation is such that light sources with different colors are arranged in the pillow, which are separately controlled or switchable.
  • the corresponding signals picked up by the input unit can be transmitted in a particularly simple manner in such a way that the coded signals are transmitted as tones or tone sequences.
  • the coded signals can also be digitized and sent out in digitized form.
  • the device can be made extremely small due to the components used, the dimensions of which essentially correspond to the ergonomics of the movement of a Hand must correspond and must allow a corresponding movement of the hand, such as caressing, pressing, pinching or pressing special buttons.
  • the device can be designed separately from the actual telecommunication device and can be electrically connected to the telecommunication device in a suitable manner.
  • a radio connection for short distances such as corresponds to the "Bluetooth" standard, for example, or infra-red is naturally suitable.
  • the device according to the invention is therefore advantageously designed such that the input unit and the output unit is designed as a separate unit which can be connected to a telecommunications device, in particular a mobile telephone.
  • the device according to the invention can be provided with a basic set of input and output options, such as, for example, touch, proximity, pressure and deformation sensors, temperature sensors, loudspeakers, luminous surfaces, lights, flashing lights, buttons, switches etc.
  • an electrical interface is preferably provided, via which the device according to the invention can be connected to input modules and / or output modules having additional sensors and / or output options.
  • the present invention thus also relates to a corresponding input module with a sensor and a corresponding output module, each with an electrical interface for connection to the device according to the invention.
  • a combined input / output module with a total of one electrical interface can also be provided.
  • the input and output module is used to upgrade the basic device with additional functions that give the basic device added value.
  • FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment
  • FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of the device according to the invention.
  • a device according to the invention is shown in plan view.
  • the device is designed for stable support on a corresponding base or for docking onto a telecommunication device as a tripod, in each case, for example, a power supply 1, a vibrator 2 or other components can be arranged in the legs.
  • a corresponding circuit arrangement can also allow the entire device 3 to rotate about a central axis, for which purpose the respective vibrators 2 should have additional freedom of movement in the direction of the double arrows 4 in order to be able to convert a two-axis movement into a rotating movement ,
  • the device 3 contains a switch 5 for switching the device on and off and a freely programmable button 6 with which certain functions can be transmitted .
  • Potentiometers 7 and 8 are also indicated schematically, with which a corresponding calibration and in particular a corresponding adaptation to the ambient light is made possible.
  • the central component of the embodiment shown in the exemplary embodiment is a centrally arranged cushion 9 with a pushbutton 10.
  • the cushion is covered by a film which is itself translucent and in this way recognizes light-emitting elements below it, at least in terms of its intensity and color value leaves.
  • 11, 12 and 13 each schematically indicate light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with different color values. These light-emitting diodes 11, 12 and 13 can be controlled separately from one another in order in this way to be able to control the impression of light and in particular the color gradient.
  • the button 10 can be pressed in essentially in the axial direction, the movement being recorded via a linkage 14, which can itself be connected to a corresponding drive.
  • the drive of the linkage 14 can correspondingly actuate the button 10 in the axial direction, so that a mechanical visualization of an exerted pressure on the transmitter side can be realized.
  • a flash tube 15 is also arranged in the exemplary embodiment, with which special effects can be transmitted.
  • Corresponding glass balls or the like can now be arranged below the transparent or translucent touch-sensitive film, which can be shifted accordingly when the cover film is touched.
  • photo sensors 16 now perceive a different light impression, which can be encoded accordingly.
  • the optical sensors 16 make it possible, for example, to detect stroking movements or pinching and to transmit them accordingly, whereby in addition to the optical impressions which are obtained from the photocells or optical sensors 16, the translatory movement of the button 10 is naturally also always Sensor signal is available.
  • the device 3 has an external shape which, from an ergonomic point of view, favors one-handed operation and which is similar to that of a computer mouse. There is again a switch 5 for switching the device on and off and a freely programmable button 6 with which certain functions can be transmitted.
  • Central element The device 3 has a substantially circular touch or pressure-sensitive surface 17 for the detection of touches such as caresses.
  • the surface or the sensor 17 detects physical contact due to pressure, deformation or changing electrical signals, which are caused, for example, by a resistance network or array, a capacitive sensor array, a Hall sensor array or a photocell array can be.
  • the local location of the contact within the touch or pressure-sensitive surface 17 and the size of the pressure exerted can be determined in an evaluation electronics.
  • the touch or pressure-sensitive surface 17 is transparent, so that the signals from display devices arranged below the surface, such as LCD displays or LEDs, are visible.
  • the surface 17 or the display device now comprises a plurality of areas 18, wherein each area of the display device can be controlled separately, so that, for example, the areas can be illuminated in mutually different colors.
  • the design can be such that each area 18 of the touch- or pressure-sensitive surface 17 is assigned the corresponding area 18 of the display device, so that the area that touches the transmitter lights up at the receiver. This enables the stroking movements carried out by one communication partner to be visualized accordingly in the other communication partner.
  • buttons 20, 21 and 22 are shown, which serve to transmit special effects.
  • a loudspeaker 23 is provided, which can reproduce different acoustic signals depending on the actuation of the buttons 24, 25 or 26 on the transmitter side. If the device 3 is connected via the connection 27 to a telecommunication device, such as, for example, a mobile telephone, the verbal messages received via the corresponding communication network can naturally also be reproduced via the loudspeaker 23.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif pour coder, transmettre et/ou recevoir des signaux non verbaux ou émotionnels. Dans ce dispositif, les signaux non verbaux ou émotionnels sont captés ou mesurés par une unité d'entrée (3) qui contient au moins un capteur (10) servant à détecter un contact, une pression ou une déformation. Lesdits signaux sont ensuite transmis par l'intermédiaire d'un réseau de communication, par exemple d'un réseau radio. Le récepteur comprend une unité de sortie (3) qui transforme les signaux reçus en signaux visuels, acoustiques et/ou perceptibles mécaniquement, par exemple en une vibration.
EP03707884A 2002-03-06 2003-03-06 Dispositif pour coder, transmettre et/ou recevoir des signaux Withdrawn EP1516241A2 (fr)

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AT1432002 2002-03-06
AT14302U 2002-03-06
AT0076602U AT7035U1 (de) 2002-03-06 2002-11-12 Einrichtung zum codieren, übertragen und/oder empfangen von signalen
AT76602U 2002-11-12
PCT/AT2003/000064 WO2003075142A2 (fr) 2002-03-06 2003-03-06 Dispositif pour coder, transmettre et/ou recevoir des signaux

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