US 12,444,290 B2
Garment and notification system
Yoshikane Tanaami, Nagoya (JP); Miyuki Hayashi, Nagoya (JP); and Yukie Maeno, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to SINTOKOGIO, LTD., Aichi (JP)
Filed by SINTOKOGIO, LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jun. 12, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/740,755.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-108647 (JP), filed on Jun. 30, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0006032 A1, Jan. 2, 2025
Int. Cl. G08B 21/18 (2006.01); A41D 1/00 (2018.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 21/18 (2013.01) [A41D 1/005 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A garment comprising:
a mutual capacitive contact sensor which has fibrous electric conductors and which detects an input operation performed by a user, the mutual capacitive contact sensor being attachable to the garment or being formable integrally with the garment;
a transceiver;
a notification section that is at least one of a mechanism configured to emit light, a speaker, and a vibrator;
a processor; and
a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program, in accordance with the program, the processor:
transmitting, to an external machine, information that is indicative of the input operation which has been detected by the mutual capacitive contact sensor, through wired or wireless communication;
receiving a command based on the information transmitted to the external machine, from the external machine or another external machine, through wired or wireless communication; and
causing notification unit to execute notification according to the command which has been received,
wherein the garment is for a worker who works at a manufacturing line of a factory.