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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2019
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Heather Culbertson, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Allison M. Okamura, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cara M. Nunez, Stanford, CA (US);
Sophia R. Williams, Menlo Park, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Haptic illusions of continuous lateral motion across the skin are provided in two distinct ways. The first approach is to provide a discrete array of tactors and drive them to provide normal forces to the skin in a sequential pattern along the array of tactors. The second approach is to provide a discrete array of tactors that each provide both normal and lateral forces to the skin in a sequential pattern along the array of tactors. In both cases, the result is a perceived motion of a contact point across the skin, occurring along the length of the factor array.