WEARABLE SOUND

摘要

Vibratory motors are used to generate a haptic language for music or other sound that is integrated into wearable technology. The disclosed system enables the creation of a family of devices that allow people with hearing impairments to experience sounds such as music or other auditory input to the system. For example, a “sound vest” or one or more straps comprising a set of motors transforms musical input to haptic signals so that users can experience their favorite music in a unique way, and can also recognize auditory cues in the user's everyday environment and convey this information to the user using haptic signals.

主权项

1. A system for transforming audio information to a haptic language, comprising:
a signal processor (20) configured to receive an audio input (10) and generate electrical driving signals (30); a wearable article (40, S1-S6); and a network of vibratory motors (M1-M4) incorporated into the wearable article, wherein the driving signals generated by the signal processor are used to drive the vibratory motors according to a predefined mapping of audio signals to different regions of the article.