US 11,872,013 B2
Shoe-type device and method of controlling the same
Changhyun Roh, Suwon-si (KR); Segon Roh, Suwon-si (KR); and Youngbo Shim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/004,193.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0173847 (KR), filed on Dec. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0186331 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A43B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/103 (2006.01); A43B 3/34 (2022.01)
CPC A61B 5/0051 (2013.01) [A43B 3/34 (2022.01); A43B 17/00 (2013.01); A61B 5/1038 (2013.01); A61B 5/6807 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shoe-type device, comprising:
a first vibrator configured to generate a vibration;
a first pressure sensor under the vibrator such that the first vibrator is configured to be relatively closer than the first pressure sensor to a sole of a user wearing the shoe-type device, the first pressure sensor being configured to measure a pressure; and
a controller configured to control an intensity of the vibration generated by the first vibrator based on the pressure,
wherein, in response to a decrease in the pressure, the controller is configured to control the first vibrator to generate the vibration such that the first vibrator maintains outputting of the vibration during the decrease in the pressure while the intensity of the vibration generated by the first vibrator decreases and is less than a sensory threshold of the user wearing the shoe-type device during the decrease in the pressure.