US 12,135,838 B2
Information processing device and information processing method for tactile stimulation
Ryo Yokoyama, Tokyo (JP); Osamu Ito, Tokyo (JP); and Ikuo Yamano, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/062,861.
Application 18/062,861 is a continuation of application No. 16/968,736, granted, now 11,550,396, previously published as PCT/JP2018/042507, filed on Nov. 16, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-025709 (JP), filed on Feb. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0102542 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/016 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device, comprising:
a control unit configured to generate, based on control information related to a tactile stimulation to be perceived by a user and characteristics of a tactile stimulation unit that outputs the tactile stimulation to the user, a control signal which is inputted to the tactile stimulation unit, wherein
the tactile stimulation unit outputs the tactile stimulation to the user based on the generated control signal,
the tactile stimulation unit serves to cause the user to perceive the tactile stimulation outputted by the tactile stimulation unit,
the control signal is generated by conversion of the control information, and
the conversion of the control information is based on a difference between characteristics of a reference tactile stimulation unit and the characteristics of the tactile stimulation unit.